I know it's ww2 Yugoslavia I'm told the stamp is a government stamp if someone knows more about it I would love to learn. What is the stamp? Did the German's use the country's currency with a stamp over it? Thanks.
It is a pre-war note from Yugoslavia over printed by the WWII government of Serbia. That part is genuine. The Nazi eagle stamp over the watermark is a modern fantasy. Lots of these fantasy stamps have come on the market in the last 4 to 5 years. It is a shame because whoever is doing it is ruining perfectly good WWII collectibles. If you look at Ebay sales for these fake over printed notes you will see they do not get anymore money than those without.
The Germans did not put over stamps on the notes from the occupied countries. They used Reichskreditkasse notes as occupation currency and permitted the indigenous currency to continue to circulate. The exchange rate with the RKK notes favored the Germans. In some places like Poland they set up entirely new banks of issue. All of the notes you find on Ebay with stamps from concentration camps, Jewish ghettoes, stars of David, SS and other german military units are fantasies.
This stamp reads: Fuhrer and Reichs Chancellor (around the rim, these were Hitler's titles). Reichstag (the German parliament) Headquarters Which is nothing but German gibberish as far as paper money is concerned. There is a round stamp that sometimes appears on this note but it is Italian, pictures a woman and says Verificato. There are genuine ones of these but they too have been faked to the point that a once scarce note with a genuine overprint no longer sells for a premium because the fakes have crowded the market. One common denominator on the faked over prints: if there is a window for a watermark it is always covered by the faked overprint.
