I Received A Package From Australia Today

if any of you have any information about these bills please post your findings here, Thanks

I don't want to sound all mushy here, Bryan, but I begin to think that we might have created some kind of magic with this group and this place. I'm a member of a lot of different forums, and this has to be the most committed group of the lot. I, for one, take great pride in being a part of it.

P-2 || 1 shilling || Japanese Occupation of Oceania is The Japaness invasion Money the First Is a WWII Era japanese ten Yen Anywher from !930' to 1940's sorry I don't have a book in front of me

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Originally posted by SuperDave

I don't want to sound all mushy here, Bryan, but I begin to think that we might have created some kind of magic with this group and this place. I'm a member of a lot of different forums, and this has to be the most committed group of the lot. I, for one, take great pride in being a part of it.

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I agree with you SuperDave I belong to about ten other forums atleast they are all great but no where near as Great as this One. I often see some of our memebers at some of my other forums and yet there are always here as well

OK Bryan

Now the truth

Our forum Mum & I stirred up a few folks
guess you didn't know what a hornets nest we had here.
We all hope you are doing better physically, financially, and that you are beginning to enjoy life once again.

just be careful - you questioned why you could not be in one of my draws - and look what happened.

Next time we may punish you with even more coins.

Have a wonderful holiday, enjoy your coins and your family,

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Originally posted by Bryan1315
if any of you have any information about these bills please post your findings here, Thanks

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I wouldn't consider myself a note expert, and my copy of Pick is pretty old (1986) but here's what I found:

The first note is a regular Japanese 10 yen note, issued 1930-1943, fairly common except when genuinely Unc. Soldiers would likely have been paid in it. It's a "convertible note", with a promise to pay the bearer in coin; later notes lack this. It's Pick #40 in mine, but Pick numbers are notoriously inconsistent.

The second note is an excellent example of Japanese Invasion Money (JIM), "Oceania" series. Japan issued these notes in all sorts of denominations, depending on the currency used in the particular regions before they arrived. (Occupied China is not normally considered JIM). Notes of the different series are also distinguished by the initial block letter. Burma (B) had cents and rupees, Malaya (M) had cents and dollars, Philippines (P) had centavos and pesos, Indonesia (S for "Shonan") had cents, gulden and (later) roepiah, and Oceania (O) had shillings and pounds.

"Oceania" here means any lands formerly owned by Britain. As far as actual Japanese conquests go, that means only northern New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and surrounding islands. As these territories were the smallest, least populated and briefest-occupied, the Oceania notes are generally the scarcest of the five. The 1 shilling note (Pick #2) is fairly common in low grades; the 10 shilling note is one of the scarcest JIM types.

If the Battle of the Coral Sea had gone the other way, notes like these would likely have been used here in occupied Australia, and sellers of these notes down here often hype this fact. JIM, wherever it was issued, was intended for use by the conquered civilian population, rather than for paying the occupying troops. Once the conquest was complete, the old currency was withdrawn and declared illegal to use on pain of death.