The traditional Eastern Europe/Western Europe distinction has less to do with cardinal directions than political affiliation. The former...
Here are the links to some of my POW and internment camp notes: Peveril Internment Camp on the Isle of Man...
The internment camp in Ireland was at Curragh. I believe only tokens were issued there. The British also had POW camps and internment camps in...
These notes were printed by the War Department and used in all of the British POW camps. Each camp was assigned a number which was put in the...
It covers the entire world including Australia, India and the Isle of Man.
A new book on the currency and tokens of WWII Civil Internment Camps came out this past weekend. It is called Silent Witnesses and was written by...
I talked with George Cuhaj who now edits the catalog for F+W this weekend at the show in Chicago. They will not be doing away with the...
Vlad: How old is your catalog? The overprinted Mozambique notes were tough to find until hoards of them came onto the market in the mid 1990s....
It was not the GIs who were caught with fistfuls of useless cash but the locals who accepted it. The soldiers were able to convert to the new...
Worn out US currency is collected at the Federal Reserve Banks and destroyed by cutting it up into little pieces. It is not sent to Africa.
The Japanese Invasion Money for the Philippines for the Philippines with serial numbers that have the number 1 as the first digit in the serial...
Local scrip issues are appearing all over the world. See the following Wikipedia article for examples....
I have sent a message to Peter Symes one of the operators of that website advising him of the problem.
The Memphis Show is July 6-8, 2007. St. Louis is November 14-18, 2007.
The AAFES pogs are small change tokens. The AAFES-run post exchanges in Iraq and Afghanistan take US dollars. The Department of Defense realized...
The www.papermoneyworld.net website is geared towards collectors of military related currency particularly US Military Payment Certificates. They...
Aidan: I said the notes were banned by the occupation authorities. I did not attribute that statement to you. That the notes were banned is...
As I pointed out in an earlier message, these were an emergency issue. They were not printed by the occupation authorities, they were printed by...
Aidan: Having collected German African colony notes for over 15 years I am well aware of the history of Southwest Africa. Military occupation...
The Swakopmund Buchhandlung notes are from German Southwest Africa. German Southwest Africa did not become British Southwest Africa until after...
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