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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1064461, member: 57463&quot;]I am amazed that anyone survived 93 years in Poland!&nbsp; Two world wars, successive occupations, the grinding poverty of communism... Your grandfather was a hardy and resourceful man.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am awed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the notes, without good scans, I can do no more than look them up in a general catalog, which you can do as well.&nbsp; Wherever on Earth you live, your&nbsp; town librarian can somehow arrange for a loan of the <i>Krause Standard Catalog of World Paper Money</i> -- and there are products like this, other catalogs, known in other languages from other countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize that the folds will lower the value, and most of these have folds and creases.&nbsp; Realize also that common things are easiest to find, so your grandfather&#039;s hoard is statistically most likely to have common objects.&nbsp; Rarities are known, of course, and after a war, the money of the losing side is just tinder and sometimes even dangerous to be caught with, so it gets destroyed, making the others more valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the details here must await someone who really knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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