Germany Under Allied Military Administration After Ww II

General Issues:
The following notes were issued for the rest of the remaining former German Reich (except the lost territories of Western and Eastern Prussia, Alsace, Lorraine, Silesia).
The so called Allied occupation money was planned since July 1942 in the USA. There were similar notes prepared to be issued in Germany, France, Italy and Japan. Every note for Germany was dated 1944. You can differ between US- and USSR-printing. On April 18th 1944 printing-plates, colour and paper were shared with the Russians. To determine the origin of the notes (US or USSR) there was a "security sign" printed on the US-notes. This sign was choosen the letter "F" for the printer company Forbes. USSR-notes don`t have that sign. All notes were printed on watermark-paper showing the words "Allied Military Authority". Some banknotes show a hyphen in front of the serial number. Only for US-printed notes that shows a replacement. For USSR-notes it`s normal to have a hyphen or not. USSR-Replacements (if there have been any) can not exactely be identified.
The denominations of Banknotes of the Allied Military Authority in Germany were 1/2, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1.000 Marks:

1/2 Mark US-printing

1 Mark USSR-printing

5 Mark USSR-printing

10 Mark USSR-printing

20 Mark USSR-printing with hyphen before serial No.

50 Mark USSR-printing with hyphen before serial No.

100 Mark USSR-printing

1000 Mark USSR-printing with hyphen before serial No.

Here you can see where the "Forbes-F" was hidden (white circle from left to right) on the Avers of every banknote:
1/2, 1 and 5 Mark: bottom right (circle 1+2; with and without "F")
10 Mark: top right (circle 3; without)
20-1.000 Mark: top right (circle 4; without)

Hi Lj,
very interesting, thank you for the post.