I bought this French note today. I thought it was ruined at first because I could see someone wrote on it, but when I looked closer I read "Souvenir from D Day in France - Normandy Beach head Omaha." While I realize that takes away any value it may have had, I thought it was worth holding on to with that tie to history. I wish I knew the whole story.
Thats really neat. i have this same note in my collection, and 1 allied currency note from germany too.
Yes I have to agree with Dave, while it loses numistic value it gains massively in the war collectables. either way It is a very very nice peice.
I bought it for the history. They had some other notes that were also written on and were most likely from the same guy, but the others just said things like "worth 2 cents" so I didn't get those.
Only marginally so. Without any other provenance there is no way to verify whether the writing was applied by someone who was actually there or whether it was applied on June 6, 1944 or June 6, 1994. Fred Schwan considers the 2 franc note the most widely collected world note. He carries one as a pocket piece and carries extras to hand out to anyone willing to listen to him talk about collecting military paper money.
Something else that crosses money and WWII history - Short Snorter http://www.shortsnorter.org/ Maybe they have been meantioned on Cointalk before, but I have always thought them to be interesting...
An interesting note Hiddendragon :thumb: I have the same but without written. I have instead another note, Banque De L'Algerie 100 francs, overprinted for use in Tunisia, dated September 2, 1940, with the words "I love you" Kiss an illegible signature (or G. luck...good luck?) and a date...March, 7 Sunday, 1943. Tunisia became a French protectorate in 1881, during World War II it was occupied by the Germans from December 1942 to March 1943. Liberation of Tunisia was the the greatest goal of Allied forces in North African campaign of 1942-1943. Americans began the invasion from the west in January 1943, the British advanced from the southeast in March, the Germans left Tunisia on May 12, 1943. The note becomes a valuable record of this historic moment: who else but an Allied soldier may have written these words? most unlikely not a Tunisian, the spoken languages in Tunisia were Arab and French, and the date correspond with the beginning of the British invasion. Who is the woman that you may write with love on a banknote? Well, we'll never know, but it's nice to see that even a simple bill can you tell us a page of history. petronius
These sort of things are very neat and really feel like a connection to history. That's why I got into coins in the first place. Petronius, maybe the name on yours is Chuck?
I made an enlargement. I see a "C" (and not a "G" as for good luck) and the first letter of the name could be "R"...Rick? It doesn't seem Chuck. petronius :smile
