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PAPER-MONEY & CURRENCY from ISRAEL and JEWISH SETTLEMENTS:


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(Ottoman) Palestine - Tel Aviv municipality 1 Bishlik paper money token, 1914.
This rare paper token was one of a series of emergency notes issued by the 5-year old Tel Aviv city council during the Summer and Fall of 1914, with the outbreak of World War I. Trade in Eretz Israel ground to a standstill, with most of her trade sources now being declared "enemies" by the Turks. The banks in the Holy Land now closed as well, as most were connected in some way with Turkey's new foes. The Ottoman Empire also imposed a heavy "emergency tax" on the Tel Aviv-Jaffo residents, which further worsened their economic situation. In response to the lack of circulating currency, the Tel Aviv council issued these tokens.

One Bishlik was worth 1/2 a German Frank (or 2 and 1/2 Turkish Piastres, or 100 Turkish Para). Series "H" issue, in F-VF condition with a fold in the center.

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Item Code: 0010095 Price: SOLD


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Israeli Tel-Aviv municipality ("Va'ad Tel Aviv") 100 Mil paper money note, 1948.
Paper currency issued by the Tel Aviv municipality in September 1948 as a means of payment to its suppliers and as a form of tax payment vouchers in return. These notes were produced at the same time as the wartime transitional government issued red and green "carpet notes", also in 50 and 100-mils denominations. However, though the carpet notes are rare, the Va'ad Tel Aviv notes are even less well known. The remarkable thing about these notes is that their Hebrew date is "5708" (or 1948 - 'Tashach') even though they were produced right around the time of the Jewish new year, which would have necessitated that they be dated "5709" for 1949. This piece is in EF condition some aging color on the base and two small spots of water wear on the left and right side edges. A lovely piece.

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Item Code: 0010067 Price: SOLD


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Israel - 500 Mils, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). No series letter. SC-14a / N-6. F.

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Item Code: 0080512 Price: $75


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Israel - 500 Mils, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). Series "A". SC-14a / N-6. F+.

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Item Code: 0080513 Price: $80


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Israeli 500 Mils banknote, Anglo-Palestine Bank issue (1948-51). Series "A". SC-14a / N-6. G.

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Item Code: 0010225 Price: SOLD


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Israel - 1 Pound, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). No series letter. SC-15a / N-7. F.

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Item Code: 0080514 Price: $20


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Israel - 1 Pound, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). Series "D". SC-15a / N-7. F-.

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Item Code: 0080515 Price: $15


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Israel - 1 Pound, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). No series letter. SC-15a / N-7. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0080516 Price: $25


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Israel - 1 Pound, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). Series "C". SC-15a / N-7. F.

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Item Code: 0080517 Price: $20


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Israel - 5 Pounds banknote, Anglo-Palestine Bank (1948-51). Series "F". SC-16a / N-8. VF-EF.

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Item Code: 0080511 Price: $125


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Israel - 50 Pruta, Fractional Currency (1952). Series "0106 / B"; red/orange; Zagaggi/Eshkol sign. SC-10b / N-3c. VF.

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Item Code: 0080525 Price: $30


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Israel - 100 Pruta, Fractional Currency (1952). Series "0118 / G"; blue/green; Neeman/Eshkol sign. SC-12c / N-4c. AU: light paper ripple on lower half of note.

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Item Code: 0080522 Price: $10


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Israel - 100 Pruta, Fractional Currency (1952). Series "0109 / G"; blue/green; Neeman/Eshkol sign. SC-12c / N-4c. VF.

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Item Code: 0080524 Price: $5


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Israel - 100 Pruta banknote, Fractional Currency (1952). Series "0107 / B"; green/black; Zagaggi/Kaplan sign. SC-11 / N-4a. AU: some foxing/age stains.

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Item Code: 0080521 Price: $100


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Israel - 1 Pound, Bank Leumi (1952). Series "U". SC-20a / N-12. VF.

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Item Code: 0080510 Price: $30


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Israel - 1 Pound, Bank Leumi (1952). Series "K". SC-20a / N-12. VF.

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Item Code: 0080519 Price: $25


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Israel - 1 Pound, Bank Leumi (1952). Series "M". SC-20a / N-12. AU: a few small foxing marks (otherwise UNC caliber).

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Item Code: 0080508 Price: $75


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Israel - 5 Pounds, Bank Leumi (1952). Series "U". SC-21a / N-13. F.

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Item Code: 0080518 Price: $20


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Israel - 10 Pounds banknote, Bank Leumi (1952). Series "G". SC-22a / N-14. EF overall: light center fold but 1 small tear at bottom border base.

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Item Code: 0080509 Price: $125


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Israel - 500 Pruta, Bank of Israel, 1955. Ancient Synagogue. Series "G". SC-24a / N-16. F+.

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Item Code: 0080527 Price: $12


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Israel - 500 Pruta, Bank of Israel, 1955. Ancient Synagogue. Series "M". SC-24a / N-16. F-VF. Signatures weakly printed.

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Item Code: 0080528 Price: $15


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Israel - 500 Pruta, Bank of Israel, 1955. Ancient Synagogue. Series "B". SC-24a / N-16. VG-F: tiny tear at bottom center.

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Item Code: 0080529 Price: $10


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Israel - 1 Lira, Bank of Israel, 1955. Upper Galilee. Series "N". SC-25a / N-17. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0080530 Price: $15


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Israel - 50 Lirot banknote, Bank of Israel 1955. Road to Jerusalem. Red serial, series "G". SC-28b / N-20. VF-EF: a few foxing spots.

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Item Code: 0080526 Price: $200


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Israel - 100 Lira banknote, Bank of Israel, 1968. Theodore Herzl. Series "B". Black Serial. SC-37a. VF.

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Item Code: 0090001 Price: SOLD


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Israel - 100 Lira, Bank of Israel, 1968. Theodore Herzl. Small black serial w/o series letter. SC-37c. In F due to small edge tear but exhibits VF+ appearance overall.

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Item Code: 0090002 Price: SOLD


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Israel - 100 Lira, Bank of Israel, 1968. Theodore Herzl. Series "L". Brown Serial. SC-37d. VF.

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Item Code: 0090003 Price: SOLD


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Israel - 10 Lirot political propaganda (circa. 1975) based on SC-39: issued by Charley Biton's "Black Panthers" and the "Moked" movement in protest to government subsidy cuts.

On one side the bill says that these 10 Lirot will be worth only 6 Lirot to "you" (salaried workers and the poor) by 1976; on the other side it says that this note will be worth 14 Lirot in 1976 to the head of the industrialists association, Avraham ("Booma") Shavit, and his "friends".

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Item Code: 0080551 Price: $50


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Israel - 1 Shekel, 1986; error: no signature on obverse. SC-51Aa / BN-39. F-VF.

Shown below are also photos of a normal period banknote for comparison (the note which appears on the bottom of the double imaged photos).

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Item Code: 0080552 Price: $400


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Israel - Bank of Israel collector series: 1990 issue 5 UNC note set - 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 New Shekels (51Aa - 55a) - with matching serial number; in special folder. Limited edition of 2000. CS1.

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Item Code: 0080553 Price: $100


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Israel - Bank of Israel collector series: 1991 issue 2 UNC note set - 100 and 200 New Shekels (56a - 57a) - with matching serial number; in special folder. Limited edition of 2000. CS2.

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Item Code: 0080554 Price: $150


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Israeli postal order for 500 Prutot, paid to the Transportation Ministry, counterstamped 1.6.59 by a post office in the city of Beer Sheva.

Of interest is the currency: Israel switched from using Lirot and Prutot (1 = 1000; the equivalent of using Dollars and Cents) to using Lirot and Agorot (1 = 100) in 1958; this money order is from the transition period in between, when there already existed a then-new 1/2 Lira banknote.

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Item Code: 0010226 Price: $50




PAPER-MONEY & CURRENCY of the PALESTINE MANDATE:


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Palestine - 5 Pounds banknote, 30 Sept. 1929. Series "A". SC-8b / PCB-3. F.

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Item Code: 0080500 Price: SOLD


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Palestine - 1 Pound banknote, 30 Sept. 1929. Series "D". SC-7b / PCB-2. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0080501 Price: SOLD


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Unsual countersigned Palestine Templars Bank cheque, 1938-39: a post-dated bankdraft written in Palestine but belonging to the German optics firm of Zeiss Ikon written on 29 June 1938, for payment to P. Pr. Kunzler & Co. on 15 January 1939 for a contract (from the date the cheque was written), and approved by Zeiss Ikon on 28 Dec. 1938 (in Dresden) and guaranteed by them in a typewritten attachment the same day, along with a Reichsbank-Dresden serial number counterstamp, deposited by J. Raises of Ramat Gan in Palestine for the sum of 25 Palestine Pounds.

The cheque was deposited with the Bank of the Temple Society (the Templars Bank) with the local Barclays Bank handling the processing of the money in Palestine (17 Jan. 1939) - accepted for payment by them in February that year and finally settled completely on 30 March. Franked with two Palestine Mandate tax stamps with the original date of the check handwritten over them (i.e. the check originated in Palestine).

The Bank of the Temple Society was founded in Jaffa, Palestine in 1925 as a credit institution associated with the German Temple Society (Tempelgesellschaft) and their colonies in Palestine; the Templers are a Christian sect who see in Jesus an example to follow but not the son of G-d. The bank had branches in Haifa and Jerusalem and was at that time one of the leading credit institutions in Palestine.

What makes this check interesting is its timeline as related to events in the Templer community in Palestine in 1938-1939: being of German roots the Templer colonies identified themselves with the Nazi regime of the Third Reich, with national-socialist oriented youth movements and male enlistment in the German Army. The once friendly Jewish community in Palestine (the "Yishuv") turned away from these colonies during the 1930's and in 1939 the British Mandatory authorites interned many of the Templers, deporting some of them to Australia and turning many of their Palestine colonies into internment camps. The cheque does not give any suggestion that either the bearer J. Raises or the firm Kunzler is Jewish (i.e. that one of them is being banished, having funds frozen or disposessed, etc.), and no text is in Hebrew, so it seems this payment may have been a regular day-to-day example of banking within the system of the immediate pre-war Templer German-British network. Interesting and scarce.

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Item Code: 0070001 Price: SOLD




WORLD PAPER-MONEY and CURRENCY:


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Algeria - 50 Centimes banknote in red; 1944 1st issue with series letter F1; in VF (Shafer/Pick 97). Issued by the French Administration following the liberation of Algeria from the Germans in World War II as "Region Economique D'Algerie". Has a thin diagonal crease on the lower left corner and a tiny tear at the upper left edge - almost EF but being sold as VF. A very nice note.

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Item Code: 0010192 Price: $8


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Austria - Allied military currency, 50 Schilling, 1945-47. EF-AU (would be UNC except for age marks on the paper). English printing (wavy-line watermark).

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Item Code: 0010056 Price: $15


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China - set of 3 Chinese currency banknotes: 1 Yuan, 1914, issued by the Bank of Communications, overprinted 'Shanghai' (P116m) in VF+; 5 Yuan, 1936, paper money note issued by the Central Bank of China with signature #5 (P213a) in EF-AU; and 5 Yuan banknote, 1937, issued by the Bank of China (P80) in AU.

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Item Code: 0110022 Price: $10


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China, set of 2 Japanese occupation, Imperial Japanese military currency notes - 10 Yen banknote ND (1940), short 7 character title, with serial number (M19a), VF, and 5 Yen (1944) currency note overprinted with "short title" of 4 Chinese characters on obverse (M25b), VF.

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Item Code: 0110018 Price: $5


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Confederate States of America - 10 Dollars currency note, Feb. 1864 (seventh issue) in EF (Shafer/Pick 68). Depicting artillery horsemen on obverse and "Ten" in blue on reverse. Printed by Keating & Ball, Columbia, South Carolina; "C" series. Ornately designed, on light-weight paper and lovely. Issued during the second-to-last year of the Confederacy and the American Civil War.

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Item Code: 0010191 Price: SOLD


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Set of 2 Cuban banknotes: a beautiful and ornate 10 Peso perforated 1896 note, with semi-printed date (P-49a) in UNC, and a 50 Peso note of Calixto Iniguez, 1950 (P-81a), in VF-EF.

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Item Code: 0110012 Price: SOLD


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Denmark - 25 Ore paper money note of the Danish Brigade ("Den Danske Brigade") in Germany, 1947-58 (P.M9). EF with a light crease in the middle. Nice, low serial number. The Danish Brigade was a post-World War II occupation force, which served in Germany from 1947 to 1958. Initially numbering 4,000 men, it was stationed in Oldenburg in 1947, under British command. The force later moved to Itzehoe in 1949, numbering around 2,000 men and was eventually re-titled The Danish Command in Germany ("Den Danske Kommando i Tyskland") until 1958, when it was recalled to Denmark.

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Item Code: 0010052 Price: $75


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Denmark, 5 Kroner banknote, 1942 in blue (Pick #30). Wartime issue in VF condition.


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Item Code: 0010103 Price: $10


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France - set of 2, 5 and 10 Francs Allied Military currency notes, 1944 1st issue, all in AU-UNC (owing to minor dirt marks and a slight edge ruffle to the 10 Fr. Note). These notes were issued from D-Day (6 June 1944) through to June 1945 as part of "Operation Tom Cat" to be supplemental currency in liberated France. All three notes bear the 'Forbes' printer intial. Featuring the French 'Tricolor' on reverse - lovely, crisp notes.

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Item Code: 0010196 Price: $15


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France - 10 Nouveaux Francs on 1,000 Francs French banknote of Richelieu, 7/3/1957 (P-138); in F+ (VF quality but has tiny pinhole on far left obverse next to "Francs").

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Item Code: 0110031 Price: SOLD


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France - French Equatorial Africa (consisting of four self governing dependencies of Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo and Ubangi-Shari - all located in west-central Africa) 20 Francs currency banknote (1947) with Emile Gentile on obverse, issued by "Caisse Centrale de la France D'outre-Mer" (P22) in AU.

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Item Code: 0110021 Price: $100


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French Indochina 1 Piastre (1945) paper money with "B" stamp (P76a). In AU condition, but graded EF due to spots on the paper note.

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Item Code: 0110019 Price: $7


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[French] Tahiti / Papeete 20 Francs banknote ND (1954-1958) in EF-AU (P21b).

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Item Code: 0110026 Price: $35


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Germany - 10 Pfennig Bank Deutscher Lander currency note, 1948. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0010049 Price: $8


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Germany - 1 Deutsche Mark banknote, 1948 (blue, brown and violet). Allied occupation issue: the series that this note belongs to replaced the "Allied Military" currency issues of 1944-48. No special markings. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0010050 Price: $15


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Germany - 10 Mark, Allied Military mark currency, 1944-48. Non-Soviet Forbes issue (with mark at top-right obverse). EF with nice serial number.

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Item Code: 0010051 Price: $15


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Germany 10 Marks paper money, 1949 issued by Bank Deutscher Lander (P16a), in VF+.

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Item Code: 0110016 Price: SOLD


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German Democratic Republic (GDR) - 50 Deutsche Pfennig banknote, 1948 in blue on brown with 7-digit serial number in EF (Shafer/Pick 8). Issued by the "Deutsche Notenbank" of Soviet occupied zone of post-War Germany, one year before the establishment of the German Democratic Republic. The 7-digit serial numbered issues were printed in the Soviet controlled zone as opposed to the 6-digit issues which were printed in the USSR itself.

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Item Code: 0010193 Price: $5


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Greek 10 Drachmai orange currency note, 1955 (P-189), in UNC. This is the 1 March 1955 issue bearing Zolotas's signature.

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Item Code: 0110011 Price: $75


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Set of 3 UNC Japanese wartime and postwar currency notes: 10 Sen (Nov. 1944) in purple and black, depicting the Tower of Hakkou Ichin; 10 Sen (Sept. 1947) in blue and black, depicting a pigeon; 50 Sen (1942-45) in blue, rose and black depicting Yasukuni Shrine.

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Item Code: 0010207 Price: $25


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Netherlands Indies (Indonesia) 1/2 Gulden (50 Cent) paper money note, 1948 with orchid (P97), VF.

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Item Code: 0110020 Price: $8


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Norway - 5 Kroner banknote, 1945 A. Post-war issue in blue and brown-gray. F-VF, left edge of note is creased.

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Item Code: 0010047 Price: SOLD


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Norway - 1 Kroner banknote, 1950 N. In green and black. F-VF, left edge of note is creased.

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Item Code: 0010048 Price: SOLD


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Philippines 5 Pesos banknote 1921, CRISP/UNC (P-53). McKinley portrait; black, blue and orange. A lovely note bearing full detail; rare in this grade.

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Item Code: 0110014 Price: SOLD


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Philippines 1 Peso banknote (ND), 1949 provisional issue (P117a), which is a Treasury Certificate of the 1944 Victory Series ("Victory" overprinted note - P94), now with thick red-lettered "Central Bank of the Philippines" overprinted on reverse. CRISP/UNC.

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Item Code: 0110015 Price: SOLD


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Set of 3 "Japanese invasion money" (JIM) paper money notes: three 5-Peso currency notes issued by the Japanese occupation authorities for the Philippines and counterstamped variously by the Japanese. All three bear a stamp of the "Office of the District Chief" (Bagumpanahon) in Manila, in English and Japanese on the obverse. One bears the stamp "Military Administration Office Financial Department Imperial Japanese Army" on the reverse; another bears two lines of Japanese text on the obverse (there's a small worm hole the size of a pin hole); and the third bears Japanese text in a red box on the obverse and a character over the "5" numeral. All are in F-VF. These are less common than similar issues with post-war counterstamps attesting to their collection and removal by post-war governments.

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Item Code: 0010204 Price: $20


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Three Philippine guerrila currency notes from Negros. The first two were issued in Negros Island by the "Free Negros Military Currency Committee" of the IV Philippine Corps and in the name of the US Army; both are from the first issue (of two) series. One is a 2-Peso note issued in 1943, in VF condition; the other is a scarce 10-peso note in G condition. The third note is a 1943 series 1-Peso issued by the "Negros Emergency Currency Board" in EF. Nicely designed and interesting to look at.

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Item Code: 0010205 Price: $20


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Philippine World War II guerilla currency - 1 Peso Negros Oriental paper banknote, series 19 March 1942 in blue ink (serial 9261; S-654). Crisp condition but has age/dirt stain on surface; there is a crease in the original printed paper running half-way from the middle of the side to the center of the note but this is a surface anomaly from the original paper source and not from usage.

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Item Code: 0110032 Price: $25


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Philippine World War II guerilla currency - 2 Peso Negros Oriental paper money currency, series 19 March 1942 in gray ink (serial 1788; S-655). Crisp condition.

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Item Code: 0110033 Price: $40


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Philippine World War II guerilla currency 100 Peso paper money issued by Negros Emergency Currency Board, 1943, and hand signed by Montelibano on reverse (S-666). Crisp; minor tear at upper left is part of the original rudimentary perforation.

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Item Code: 0110025 Price: SOLD


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Philippine rare World War II guerilla currency note: crisp 500 Peso colored paper money banknote issed by Negros Emergency Currency Board, series of 1943 with 3 handwritten signatures on reverse (S-667, version with Montelibano's on top).

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Item Code: 0110024 Price: SOLD


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Two Philippine guerilla currency notes: one 50-Centavos (small) note from Cagayan in EF and another 10 Centavos note from Mountain province (F-VF). The Cagayan piece is from the fourth issue and made from hand engraved lead plates; the Mountain piece is counterstamped by Kayan(?) province on 23 June 1943.

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Item Code: 0010206 Price: SOLD


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Philippines - World War II and emergency guerilla currency: 1 Peso, Leyte Emergency Currency Board, April 1942 (S394). Fine (two small tears on the top). Green and orange, Series A. This note is from the pre-Japanese invasion period of April-May 1942. Production of this note began in mid-April and ceased on the afternoon of May 23rd.

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Item Code: 0010053 Price: $10


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Poland/Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) - 50 Pfennig paper money, 1940; violet; red 6-digit serial. C-4201. UNC.

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Item Code: 0090006 Price: SOLD


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Poland/Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) - 1 Mark banknote, 1940; light green; red 6-digit serial series "A". C-4202b. AU-UNC.

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Item Code: 0090007 Price: SOLD


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Poland/Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) - 20 Mark banknote, 1940; olive; without watermark; red 6-digit serial with online line under "o" in "No". C-4206b. F: a few small edge tears.

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Item Code: 0090008 Price: SOLD


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Serbian 100 Dinara banknote, 1941, overprinted on Yugoslavian P27 note (P23) in EF-AU.

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Item Code: 0110023 Price: $10


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Sweden 5 Kroner banknote, 1956 (P42) in AU (would be AU-UNC except for small color stain on top right corner reverse).

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Item Code: 0110017 Price: $8


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United States - obsolete currency: State Bank, South Carolina $10 w/sailing ships & maid; 6.01.1860. F-VF: technically a higher grade note but signature ink has weakened the paper and caused perforations.

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Item Code: 0080556 Price: $75


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United States - obsolete currency: State Bank, South Carolina $10 w/sailing ships & maid; 20.07.1855. Overprinted "1000". G-VG.

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Item Code: 0080557 Price: $30


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United States - obsolete currency: Miners & Planters Bank, North Carolina $5 Murphy w/maids and Indian; 4.06.1860. G-VG.

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Item Code: 0080558 Price: $20


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United States - $100 Federal Reserve Note, 1934A. SC-433Da. F-VF.

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Item Code: 0080567 Price: $180


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Two Vietnamese currency notes: one South Vietnamese 5-Dong note, 1955, in UNC (crisp but small light blue and rose dots visible - may be part of the security features); and one North Vietnamese 1-Dong note, 1958 in VF (there are surface wear points on the lower obverse; in the photo, the light area on the upper obverse is flash reflection off the crystal slider). The North Vietnamese note may actually be a clipped off American propaganda counterfeit from the late 1960s: it bears an identical serial number to such a counterfeit that I saw, and the note also has a corner imperfection which looks strange - a counterfeit piece bore a propaganda message on the paper next to the note. Priced as a standard (less expensive) note here.

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Item Code: 0010208 Price: $15