The V is the series letter. RBD stands for Reichsbankdirektorium (Directors of the Reichsbank) which is written unferneath the letters. These...
Daggarjon: You will want to look at the overprints very closely as spurious overprints have hit the market in the last few years. The...
British Military Authority Occupation Currency by T.F.A. van Elmpt
It was done for ease of commerce. English is the universal language of business. If you wanted westerners to do business in your country, it was...
It is not unusual for notes to have English on them even when issued in non-English speaking countries. Many Middle Eastern and Asian countries...
The Mexican Dollar in question is not the 1913 peso shown in the OP but the old Mexican 8 real coin, the original "pieces of eight". It was...
Military paper money is one of my areas of expertise.
What you are missing is the standards used by the grader. This note may very well be a 70 based on the standards used by the person grading it....
While I still cannot give you the catalogue numbers for these notes, they are the Far East Provisional Government notes found in Pick Volume I...
I can confirm that it is from the Ukraine and dates from the Russian Revolution era but cannot give the catalog details.
What types of Russian notes are you interested in? There are literally thousands of different notes from the 1917 Revolution. You should get...
The star on this note was not put there by the BEP. It is probably a stamp placed on it by a merchant signifying that it is authentic similar to...
It is probably a "wallet transfer". If you leave two notes in a tight wallet for a long enough period of time the designs will rub off on each...
Have you tried turning the note upside down or scanning vertically? I have seen posts on other discussion boards that indicate this worked for them.
I do not have Photoshop. I use the software that came with the printer and Microsoft Picturre Editor that came with the computer.
My HP Photosmart all-in-one has no problem scanning modern notes from any country.
http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/notedir/mappage.html Is Ron Wise's World Paper Money page. It has thousands of pictures. It is organized by country...
No hijack at all. The thread is about military numismatics after all.
Specimen notes are usually printed to use as examples for banks, law enforcement and others who will come in contact with the notes. Specimen...
It is not an error, it is a specimen note.
Separate names with a comma.
