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Gold Back Silver Certificate 1935

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 Posted 02/20/2014  8:29 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add goldback to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anyone tell me anything about a bill like this? It has been in my family for a long time. I believe my grandfather found it sometime during WW2. It is in very rough condition. Maybe just altered? Bleached? I've searched the net and never found anything similar.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/...842a5a27.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/...dc40c429.jpg

Thanks!
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 Posted 02/20/2014  9:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denco7 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like an old yellow seal North Africa bill. During the war, U.S currency was printed with different colored seals and in the case of Hawaii bills, over printed with a big HAWAII on the back. If a large shipment of money used to the pay and supply the allied troops in North Africa, wa ever to fall into enemy hands, all bills with yellow seals would immediately be demonitized and rendered useless to the AXIS powers.

The reverse of the bill looks like it is just some sort of chemical damage from storage.

Unfortunately in this condition it is not worth much.
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02/20/2014 9:27 pm
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 Posted 02/21/2014  09:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BisonMatt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
With that serial number, this note is a regular Silver Certificate and note a North Africa or Hawaii emergency issue note.

http://www.uspapermoney.info/serials/all___s.html

The front and back have been exposed to a chemical that changed the ink into that yellowish color, not sure what though
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 Posted 02/21/2014  10:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denco7 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't think that I have ever seen a yellow seal that was not a North Africa.

Your saying what ever turned the back yellow, turned the blue seal yellow ?

Nice pick up Matt
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 Posted 02/21/2014  11:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lettow to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As BisonMatt said, this is a chemical alteration or run through the laundry too many times.

The Oceania One Pound note in the picture looks to be one of the Australian counterfeits. Can we have a picture of the full face on that one?
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