Posted 12/29/2011 11:26 am
According to my info (WWII Remembered by Schwan and Boling - 1995) this note isn't technically JIM. The Japanese set up a puppet government shortly before the Phillipines were re-taken by the Allies. This was meant to be issued by that "independent" nation.
At the time of this book's printing there were three known varieties of this note. This one is the "incomplete" varity because it's missing a serial number. This is the "most common" of the three, but all three are (were?) quite rare. I don't have the book in front of me right now, but they valued it at $400 if I remember correctly. Again, that was in 1995, so it could be worth more now. That's assuming some big hoard of them hasn't been found since.
And I'm with mmerc20. Could we see a scan of the back?
At the time of this book's printing there were three known varieties of this note. This one is the "incomplete" varity because it's missing a serial number. This is the "most common" of the three, but all three are (were?) quite rare. I don't have the book in front of me right now, but they valued it at $400 if I remember correctly. Again, that was in 1995, so it could be worth more now. That's assuming some big hoard of them hasn't been found since.
And I'm with mmerc20. Could we see a scan of the back?
