This is incorrect. Series 691 was intended to replace Series 651 in Korea. This is why there were no fractionals printed for Series 691....
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As Steve indicated, what you have is a web note. This was a short series printed in the 1990s on a continuous feed press instead of the presses...
The notes of the Yokohama Specie Bank for use in China were issued between 1880-1920 or so. This was a time when hundreds of different banknotes...
There was more than one 1 yuan note issued in China in 1948. You are goint to have to be more specific about which note your friend needs. Which...
Notes from India also are frequently found with staple holes because they are packaged that way by the printer.
My FUN pick up [IMG] The 5 and 10 from Mitchell Field were previously unreported.
But how many of the TPG notes have been sold at those prices?
In 25+ years of collecting notgeld the question of whether or not any of it was genuine has rarely crossed my mind. There is such little value to...
The text on the back of this note is political commentary about the inflation and the war reparations owed to the French that caused the inflation.
Not quite. "Not" in German means "emergency" and "geld" means money. Notgeld in English is literally "emergency money".
I hope you did not pay too much for this. A large hoard of these notes came out about 5 years ago. They can be found raw on Ebay for as low as...
The Bank of Gallipolis is one of the most commonly found Ohio obsoletes. The pricing given by others sounds about right.
They are not counterfeits, they are modern copies made on thick, parchment like paper. By modern, I mean since the 1940s, the American Historical...
World War II Remembered by Schwan and Boling is my favorite reference book. Unfortunately, it is 15 years old and desperately in need up...
Most notes from the inflation era are fairly common and worth less than $10.00. There are some exceptions but you really have to know the area to...
I spent some time there in 2008 for a research project. Dr. Noll and the staff were very knowledgeable and helpful. There is a wall outside...
The best general resource for Hawaii and North Africa notes is an article written by Peter Huntoon (and others) in 2008 for Paper Money magazine,...
The Hawaii overprints are exactly that -- overprints. They are not stamps and they are not part of an intaglio plate. They were applied with...
In addition to being used in Hawaii during the war, they were used to pay US forces operating in the Pacific during the war. For a first hand...
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