Looks like a specimen of a cartone from the revolution period from the Banco Oriental.
They do not come up very often. I have seen very few on the market over the years.
Because some people will pay good money for any silly thing that looks like paper money encased in plastic festooned with a number in the high 60s.
It looks like a wallet piece.
It is not really scrip. It was used as training money in business classes at the school. It was not exchangeable for anything.
The Chinese notes are from Taiwan and are modern. They are not WWII era. And they depict Sun Yat Sen not Chiang Kai Shek. Five pounds of sugar...
An ancestry.com account is crucial for researching short snorters. fold3.com is also helpful and many of its pages are accessible for free.
[ATTACH] From the War Diary of HQ MAG-31. Beebe and Wascom were both assigned to HQ.
[ATTACH] PhM Orla Nelson Beebe was very much a man.
Orla Beebe and Charles Wascome Jr. were pharmacist mates assigned to Marine Air Group 31 in 1944.
I saw that one when listed. A couple of RAAF members and some American nurses. Sounds like a helluva night on Waikiki.
I want to see the short snorter.
The Dome of the Rock is one of the few places (and may be the only one) that appears on banknotes from countries outside of where it is located....
Operation Crossroads was the name given to nuclear tests at Bikini in 1946. Google it for the full history. There are a handful of different...
One of the best notes in the picture will not be found in a standard reference book. It is the Opeation Crossroads short snorter.
That has already been explained. PCGS labeled them as specimens because of the serial number.
They are specimens which is why they have zeroes for a serial number. It does not mean they were the first ones printed. They probably printed...
Message from LKCA: Dear Friends, We have decided to offer an opportunity to share some time with fellow banknote and currency collectors in a...
When I was in Riyadh in 1998 there was a money changer who had a shop near the Masmak Fortress. I wandered in one night when we were in the city....
The different plate numbers on the face and back tells you the bottom note was not printed on the same sheet as the others. The plate numbers on...
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