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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arkaig1, post: 2036137, member: 25875&quot;]Joe, here are a couple of issues that just come to mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weren&#039;t GIs discouraged from participating (too much) in the local economies?&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking of &quot;scrapper&quot; character roles in various movies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I suspect most GIs returned all of their military scrip for cash, when the got out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was born 15 years post-war, but most GIs I talked to as a kid typically told me that they came home with just a pocketful or two of occupied or &quot;pre-occupied&quot; coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Other than the curiosity/oddity value, I don&#039;t know how many GIs would have been stationed in a single coinage area long enough to get attached to any one set of the coins.&nbsp; U.S. Hawaiian bills, and U.S. Phillipines coins seem to be the notable exceptions, for more historically obvious reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also suppose English half-pennies and French centimes kept showing up.&nbsp; They were also popular in that way, with the pre-depression merchant mariners, a generation before the vets.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just thinking out loud ... and hoping it helps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are anyone here vets, or can talk to some vets, who can give us the real truth on any of this?&nbsp; Interesting idea, Joe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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