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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MEC2, post: 1727351, member: 38692&quot;]Heritage should feel like a thief for hosting transactions like this. It&#039;s okay to turn away business if it&#039;s the right thing to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>But enough about YOUR pickups, what about mine? Well Marcia Marcia Marcia has picked some new notes and one of them goes toward finishing out the entire set of Japanese Invasion Money for the Philippines. I really do like the design of this series with the Rizal monument on them like this Five Peso note, as well as the design elements the Japanese wisely stole from American designed currency for the Philippines - the first set was more dissimilar, and to avoid the dislike of the notes, they made them look much more like previously issued American currency. The result - nicer notes the Philippinos still hated. But at least they cared to design their very best. Look at those 5&#039;s and tell me they don&#039;t like like they should have Abe Lincoln in the middle...</p><p><br /></p><p>The other bit of interest on this note is the presence of the stamp on the reverse of the Japanese War Note recovery group that tried to force these notes to be recognized and monetized for recovery by the restored government of the Philippines. Which of course is industrial strength crazy, since how can an occupation force indemnify a deposed government? Still, folks who had these notes figured why not go the greedy route and try to get a windfall. Notes like this were turned in for &quot;safe keeping&quot; until the disposition of the case. And to absolutely nobody&#039;s surprise, the court didn&#039;t commit national suicide by making the notes valid for recompense. </p><p><br /></p><p>Still, this series from the 1 to the 500 in the second series releases really are decent little notes with a design and subtle color choices I do actually like, even if it was the rapacious and brutal Empire of Japan that issued them...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/MEC2DFW/Currency/Philippines/5JIMF_zps3f2a98c8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/MEC2DFW/Currency/Philippines/5JIMB_zpsb9bd5933.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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