Nice looking notes! On the Australian ones, the reverse is the side with the serial numbers (at least that is according to SCWPM, I don't know if...
Welcome to the forum, Fairitt. You are responding to a thread called "French Banknote Theft" here. Instead, you want to go to the top of the...
If you get the newer editions of SCWPM, you get a CD that is searchable. I did a search through the modern issues and came up with 20 or so with...
Euro notes have a checksum digit in the serial number, I suppose one could check that and claim it found a fake, but I don't know that all those...
Wow! I have no idea how that would have come to be! The package went from Paris to San Francisco, so I can say that I don't suspect the theft...
Thanks much for the note, DJ. As regards who it may be, I think the set of folks includes everyone from the packaging & shipping folks at CGB...
"insure delivery in the US" is key here. If you mean "send FROM the US TO the US" that's very different from "FROM SOMEWHERE TO the US", as I'm...
Thanks De Orc and Ricky for keeping this thread visible. No particularly good news unfortunately. A claim has been opened with the French Postal...
Thanks for the info and support... I doubt my situation will be just paid off by CGB, but I can hope. No new news yet; on Monday the CGB person...
Rickie, aside from the numismatic disaster of this, were you able to get insurance recovery from the incident? Dave
Thanks for the comments, guys. I realize I have little hope of ever seeing these notes, but am holding out a bit in the chance that they are rare...
I've been the victim of a theft, and would like the forum to be aware and on the lookout for a couple notes. Two French banknotes (SCWPM...
As you can imagine, Banque de France had a bit of trouble getting to the business of printing and delivering banknotes during WWII. Many were...
Cool! I do think there's a certain allure to notes that have been "around the block" a bunch of times. They bring their own history with them.......
That's Louis Pasteur, in addition to everything else he invented the vaccine for rabies. So that's a guy with a rabid dog... not your usual...
Yep, wonderful colors on those notes, it makes for a nice set. That building must be awfully important to be on every single one! Dave
Glad you're enjoying it - it says something for the site, or perhaps the beer :) Dave
Some good news for FrenchBanknotes.com - Madison and I have put our heads together and combined our collections of French and French-printed notes...
Beautiful notes, Ricky. The back of the $2 makes me wonder if it's the source of one of my pet peeves, this idea that when writing out a number,...
Neat find! How many times did you check those serial numbers to convince yourself they were really different? :) Dave
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