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Valued Member
United States
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United States
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I have been working on military money as well. Here are two books to obtain:
World War II Allied Military Currency, by Raymond S. Toy and Carlton F. Schwan.
Military Money, by Walter Rundell, Jr.
I think both are a bit difficult to locate. The second one, in particular, took me over a year to find.
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Netherlands
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And did you find something nice yet, or did you determine what time period? It doesn't have to be from WWII, here are my examples from Brittish Forces 1972 & 1 Pound from 1962:   They were really cheap, yet uncirculated and deffinetly interesting to have! |
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New Member
United States
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1Lost Coin,
I'm a newbie, but share your interest in some of the War Time Money. Mainly WWII, as my dad was in Japan right after the war. He died recently, and I inherited a ton of Unc military money that he brought back -- JIM from many of the Pacific countries that Japan invaded, etc.
It's darn pretty money -- colors, textures -- makes American cash pale by comparison!
As I go through the boxes, I'll share any good finds with you!
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Canada
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Israel
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i am ww2 bank note collector , and when collecting the bank note issue in and after ww2 , you find a very large varity of countries , occupation forces and bank note prices , for 1$ per item of the JIM to ++ 1000 $ for the rare ones , you need to define according to your budget and intrest what you collect ,
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Australia
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>>> KingZ: I recenly picked up a NEI "een halve gulden", or 50-cent, bearing a portrait of the Queen, and date "2 Maart 1943", apparently printed by the American Bank Note Company.
I have been contemplating starting a collection of "occupied territories". I saw this note going cheap, so I got it.
But what I have yet to research is this:
in 1943, the Netherlands were occupied;
and the NEI were also occupied;
so, on whose behalf did the ABNCo print my note ?
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05/23/2011 2:32 pm
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Israel
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peter Thomas
you are totaly right , those are the most optimistict bank note I saw in my life , it was printed in USA by the Ducth goverment in Exile , there are 2 edition 1) for Netherland east indie, ocupied at that time by Japan,
2)for Netrland ocuiped at that time by germany ,
both edition ehere put into circulation at 1945 , once war ended
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Australia
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> Barak, thankyou.
I'm aware that the U.S. Mint minted some coins datd 1944, for use in territories liberated after D-Day.
One can use coins as a springboard to study history, and so many other subjects ...
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New Member
United States
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I think I've got this all figured out now. About how to post a reply with pics. Anyway, got this assortment of 1944 series French Francs. Not sure if this was "occupation" money, but it's certainly wartime era. I hope the scan comes through OK. Rick   |
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Why don't armies issues their own private bills anymore? Or do they?
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Yep, those are war notes, though these are "Allied Military Currency", issued for use in the re-liberated parts of France. AMC was also issued for Germany, Italy and Japan.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Australia
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Quote:
Why don't armies issues their own private bills anymore? Or do they? The AMCs shown on the previous page aren't strictly "military money", as they were intended for both military and civilian use. The US military during WWII paid its troops using local currencies, wherever possible. AMCs were made for use in regions where there was no civilian government to issue any local currency. The Axis countries, however, printed two different sets of money for use in the territories they occupied, one for conquered civilian use and the other strictly for the military. An army has its own money printed when it's trying to minimize black marketeering. If the only money that a soldier is being paid with is military money which a civilian can't use, and if the civilian's money is unusable by the soldier back at the barracks, then that civilian won't want to try to sell anything to that soldier, or vice versa. So the reason why such notes are no longer needed are I suppose there's less worry about black marketeering going on these days, and since electronic fund transfers so much easier these days, physical money is no longer needed to pay soldiers with. The US military store, the AAFES, uses pogs - plasticized cardboard tokens - for low values. These were (and still are) made as a lightweight alternative to shipping actual US coinage around the world just for the military to use. For higher values I assume ordinary US currency suffices. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
United States
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Here are a couple of VICTORY Pesos from the Phillipines. The first pictured has delaminated, which can be discerned from the obverse picture on the left hand side. Had no clue about this until I scanned it this morning. Interesting in that they were crafted in this manner. The second specimen is signed by my uncle and the remaining men in his unit. They were in the 96th ID throughout the entirety of the Pacific campaign.     |
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