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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;purple88, post: 1746766, member: 56032&quot;]<font face="Georgia">First allied military scrip used in Japan. It was also used briefly in Korea. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Georgia">Printed in San Francisco.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Georgia">Your note will either have an &quot;A&quot; for </font><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">&quot;A type yen&quot;,</font></span><font face="Georgia"> or a &quot;B&quot; for </font><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">”B type yen&quot;</font></span> <font face="Georgia">printed on the front. The example you have is &quot;B type yen&quot;.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">The US military used &quot;A type yen&quot; until the first issuance of US Military Payment Certificates in 1946 replaced it. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">“A type yen” are much rarer because they had to be exchanged, within a specific time period, for the newly issued Military Payment Certificates that replaced it. Once exchanged the A type was then worthless and destroyed. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">&quot;B type yen&quot; were used by the local civilians in the Okinawa Prefecture. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">Between the 1945 battle of Okinawa and the beginning of the US occupation the islands went from a currency-free system to the reintroduction of currency with the B yen. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">The US established B yen as the only legal currency for use by the local Japanese in the Okinawa Prefecture. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">The whole rest of Occupied Japan was using the new Japanese yen &quot;new yen&quot;. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">In 1948 B type yen came to be used by both Japanese military and civilians.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">Military scrip was introduced in Okinawa because the US military government intended to continue occupation of Okinawa long after ending it in the Home Islands. </font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">In 1958, the US dollar replaced the B yen in the Okinawa Prefecture.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Georgia">Value is $3-25 each depending upon condition.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Georgia">There are some ultra-rare variants.&nbsp; Post a scan and let’s see what you have.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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