The MOD sold its remaining stock of BAFSV in the late 90s in a single lot. There were hundreds of thousands of notes from many different series....
Thousands of the Series 691 and 701 notes are still held by the Army Finance Museum. Many of these including yours have been surreptitiously...
Condition rarity. Here is one with less than 10 known although 56 were made. [ATTACH]
The BEP produced the designs with guidance from the Army. Len Buckley who designed Series 681 for the BEP gave a presentation a few years ago at...
The women on Series 611 are not real people. Chief Hollow Horn Bear appears on the 692 $10.00 and Chief Ouray is on the $20.00. Ed White is the...
MPC was only valid in facilities outside the US. The last series was used in Korea and was demonetized in 1973.
There was a problem in the 1990s with the black ink on the face flaking off.
On your note the number 24 is a position number. It indicates what position the note was on the sheet. The fractionals were printed 80 to a...
The first two numbers in the series are the year the series was ordered by the army. There is no date of issue on the notes themselves.
MPC was only made by the US. As I noted in a previous post, the British issued British Armed Forces Special Vouchers and British Military...
There is more than one variety of the $10.00 note. One is more scarce than the other.
The last edition of Schwans book was 2003 at the height of MPC prices. The prices in that catalog are high across the board. The prices on...
Arnold Keller, the German notgeld cataloguer, once said that his collection was about 75,000 pieces shy of being complete.
The PVC damage can be seen by the way the seal and serial numbers can be seen from the back. PVC leaches into the paper and makes it translucent.
There were tests done by Crane and Company on three different types of paper in FY42 but those experiments had nothing to do with the R and S...
"In an effort to improve the wear resistance of currency, Crane and Company furnished the bureau with an experimental lot of paper which was used...
They were experimenting with different paper types.
If you do find those, however, you have hit the jackpot.
If you really believe this should be the only reason the design of US paper money should be changed then you should have no objection to removing...
I use Reinhard Tieste's site to look up German notgeld. www.tieste.de.
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