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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 878929, member: 6986&quot;]There is a little more to it than that.&nbsp; They were used to pay US military personnel in the initial invasion of North Africa and Italy.&nbsp; Once a foothold was gained and supplies of local currency or Allied Military Currency were sufficient, the yellow seal notes were no longer issued.&nbsp; They are also referred to as &quot;spearhead curency&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only time in the European Theatre during the war that US personnel were paid in dollars, otherwise they were paid in local currency.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yellow seal notes were paid to US personnel who were transiting between locations in the European Theatre.&nbsp; They were to be exchanged for local curency upon arrival at the new location.&nbsp; Finally, they were used to pay US personnel when they rotated back to the US after the war was over.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purpose of the yellow seal (and the Hawaii overprinted notes) was to create a type of currency that could be easily identified and separated from other US currency so it could be withdrawn and demonetized.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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