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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 836109, member: 6986&quot;]British Armed Forces Special Vouchers were printed for the same reason MPC was printed by the US -- to combat blackmarketing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th Series were issued and used in various parts of the world.&nbsp; The 4th and 5th Series were not used.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 6th Series notes that MPCUSA showed were not printed by TDLR, they were printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson although TDLR did also print the 6th Series fractionals.&nbsp; The 6th Series fractionals were printed due to the conversion to decimalized currency in Great Britain.&nbsp; It was issued only in Berlin and was used until 1979.</p><p><br /></p><p>BASFV ceased to be used in 1979.&nbsp; The Ministry of Defence sold the remaining stock in two sales in the late 1980s-early 1990s.&nbsp; Seventeen million notes were sold in these auctions.&nbsp; All the notes were sold as a single lot in each auction.&nbsp; The notes posted by Pennywise and MPCUSA were all part of those sales. </p><p><br /></p><p>The notes from the 1st Series that were overprinted for HM Ships were only used by Force T which was assigned to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>T.F.A. Van Elmpt published a book in 1994 called British Armed Forces Special Vouchers.&nbsp; A good summary of the history and issue of these notes can be found in Schwan-Boling&#039;s World War Two Remembered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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