The Money of War

This 50 kronen note is dated 12 September 1940 and was issued by the Bohmen & Mahren Protectorate government.  I find the design very similar to the 10- and 20-kronen notes I listed above dating from 1942 and 1944.

This Cambodia 500 riels note is identical to one I shared above except for the signatures; these signatures date this note to 1972 (as opposed to 1968 for the one above.)  This design was actually used from 1958-1972.



Two years later, in 1974, the 500 riels note looked like this and the country had become the Khmer Republic.  The only vestige of French colonial times in the design is the 'Banque Nationale du Cambodge' French language on the back.

This is the 10 kuna banknote issued by Croatia and dated 30 August 1941.  German and Italian forces had invaded Yugoslavia in April and by the end of May, a fascist puppet state was issuing money like this.  My note has a double-letter prefix to the serial number but there is a slightly more rare single-letter prefix issue as well.
I think this is a pretty note although the colors are drab, to say the least.

This occupation of Japan 1 yen note has a serial number prefix and suffix of "D" which is the last issue of this series which came out in 1957.

This 50-centavos banknote was issued by the Mexican state of Chihuahua and is dated September 18,1915.  Like much of the paper money of this time and place, the paper is low-quality and the design is more simple than much Mexican paper money from other times.

If you were a US soldier in the Korean War, this series 481 50-cent note might have been in your pocket. 

Pictured above is a 5 livre ("pounds") assignat note from 1793.  The top and the bottom border contains the following 'Created the 10th of Brumaire, Year 2 of the French Republic'  The French Revolution brought us use of the metric system but also a new calendar.  I think Brumaire is around October/November and has something to do with 'fog' ('the foggy month' so to speak) and the 10th equates to 31 October; the second year of the First Republic (are we on the Fifth now?) equates to 1793.
The note is uniface (blank on the back) and contains a blind stamp in the white space to the left of the signature, Gilles Somebody.  The notes were cut out of sheets by hand and you can see the uneven border on this one.