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<p>[QUOTE="anischyros, post: 1655594, member: 45265"]<b>More on the Bubbles Soap Dollar</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is information about the history of these phony bills at <a href="http://www.psywarrior.com/WWIIGermanBanknotes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.psywarrior.com/WWIIGermanBanknotes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.psywarrior.com/WWIIGermanBanknotes.html</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, when my grandmother died in 1982, I found a stack of 60 of these in her stuff. I still have them. It turns out that her step-daughter was married to a war correspondent who followed the American army during the invasion of Italy in 1943. Apparently, he picked them up there, brought them back after the war, and somehow some of them ended up in my grandmother's possession. When researching these yesterday I learned they have a certain value. However, they have been devalued somewhat because someone wrote the word "counterfeit" on the front of each phony note, probably to prevent someone from accidentally trying to spend them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="anischyros, post: 1655594, member: 45265"][b]More on the Bubbles Soap Dollar[/b] There is information about the history of these phony bills at [url]http://www.psywarrior.com/WWIIGermanBanknotes.html[/url]. Incidentally, when my grandmother died in 1982, I found a stack of 60 of these in her stuff. I still have them. It turns out that her step-daughter was married to a war correspondent who followed the American army during the invasion of Italy in 1943. Apparently, he picked them up there, brought them back after the war, and somehow some of them ended up in my grandmother's possession. When researching these yesterday I learned they have a certain value. However, they have been devalued somewhat because someone wrote the word "counterfeit" on the front of each phony note, probably to prevent someone from accidentally trying to spend them.[/QUOTE]
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