My Mother In Law Gave Me A Lot Of Foreign Currency, Help Please

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Rabbithole1 Pillar of the Community United States 520 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 9:05 pm I have zero knowledge on this, I stick to mostly wheat cents:) I'm not even sure how I should post these? Here are some pictures. Report this Post to the Staff

january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5174 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 9:28 pm A bit of a hint: next time, please orient the camera and the note in the same direction, so that the picture wouldn't consist almost entirely of background. As for the notes: German 1 trillion mark notgeld (?) from the hyperinflation period, Japanese (?) 50 yen (or sen?), and Italian 100 lire. Not sure of much more at the moment, sorry (though the notgeld looks intriguing). Report this Post to the Staff
Rabbithole1 Pillar of the Community United States 520 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 9:47 pm Thank you,january1may! My apologies for the terrible photos. Mother in law handed these to me as she walked in the door..lol I've been trying to examine them and take pics while entertaining. Better pics to come.. #bedtime for most:) Report this Post to the Staff
Rabbithole1 Pillar of the Community United States 520 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 10:34 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Rabbithole1 Pillar of the Community United States 520 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 11:49 pm Report this Post to the Staff
hfjacinto Pillar of the Community United States 7276 Posts	Posted 09/13/2019 11:53 pm I don't know what you want do but I recently traded my foreign currency note for a few coins I wanted. I did at my local coin shop. I had currency I no longer wanted for currency o did want. My Slabbed Dansco 7070 with Gold Page My Slabbed IHC Set My Slabbed 20th Century Type Set Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 09/15/2019 9:27 pm The four notes you've posted so far are all obsolete, so one thing you cannot to with them is take them down to your nearest moneychanger and exchange them for face value; they have no "face value" any more. The first note is a 1 billion mark note from Germany. After losing WWI, the Germsn econmy collapsed and the mark went into hyperinflation. This is one of the highest face value notes they issued. Note that a "German billion" is 1 followed by 12 zeroes - what you folks over in America call a "trillion". The little 5 cent note is a "military payment certificate". These were what soldiers stationed overseas during the Korean and Vietnam war eras were paid in, a special currency only the trops were allowed to redeem; this helped restrict the black market trading between the troops and the local civilians. "Series 461" indicate4s this is from the 1946 series and would have been issued to troops stationed in occupied Europe and Japan after WWII. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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