i can confirm that this note is not an operation bernhard forgery (wish it was as the forgeries tend to be worth more than the originals), i bought this not from a very reputable dealer in british bank notes who is a member of the BNTA and the IBNS, i think that they would take a very dim view if someone claimed they had sold a forgery not to mention legal action.
i am very aware of the scenario of operation bernhard and himmlers plan to de-stabilise the british economy by flooding the country with forged £5 an £10 notes during WW2 he assembled the best forgers in the prison camps and forced them tom make copy plates for printing the said notes. however being prisoners of the reich the forgers built in subtle defferences as ikandiggit has pointed out
Holy Cow, Dave, that's just beautiful! Thanks for the enormous scans do show the details. It's almost enough to make me want to start up a new collection. When you finish with dinner, I (and others, I presume) would be interested in a bit of the back story behind this note. Is it rare, are there many Chinese notes this wonderful and in this kind of shape? What are the purple stamps? Etc. Thanks Dave
LOL! I've already started searching for it! Fantastic note! Hope you don't mind, Dave.... http://www.banknoteden.com/Chinese Banknotes.htm
Ah, we should have known, I guess Nice write-up of Dave's, as always. These notes need a magnifying glass in front of them to show off all the tiny artwork. Dave
Here's another from Yugoslavia, Zeplyn: You can see more at http://www.frenchbanknotes.com?country=Yugoslavia
DaveM these are really nice looking banknotes. How do you tell what year it is from? Thank you for the link. I will have a look.
You can actually see the date on the face of that last one, "1931" printed right over the signatures. It's just a bit small in the scans. A fair number of the notes from eastern Europe are not all that expensive, by the way. Dave