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REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 11:44:59 AM
GOT TO THE COIN SHOW TODAY AND PICKED UP A FEW NOTES AND COINS...I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ONE NOTE WITH YOU NOW AND WILL ADD MORE PICTURES WHEN I CAN...THIS IS A 20 FRANC NOTE FROM WWII ....YOU WILL SEE THE BANK'S NAME ON THE FRONT BUT I WANT TO SHOW YOU THE BACK FIRST

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TIME WAS INVENTED SO EVERYTHING WOULD NOT HAPPEN AT ONCE!
 


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Re: REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 11:51:26 AM
NOW I WILL SHOW YOU THE FRONT.....I WANT YOU TO LOOK CAREFULLY AS WHOEVER CARRIED IT WROTE BATTLES HE PARTICIPATED IN---I BELIEVE.
SOME ARE:  GUADAL CANAL-----SAIPAN---TINIAN----GUAM---MAJURO?---KWAWELEIN---JONSTON(BATTLE OR HIS NAME?)--TARAWA AND ?

FASCINATING NOTE---SOME OF YOU MAY HELP ME WITH THE BATTLE SITES--ENJOY

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Re: REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 12:10:57 PM
Cool note Joe, especially with the scribble on the front!   :)

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Re: REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 01:15:16 PM
Off the top of my head I am thinking those were printed by E.A. Wright of Philadelphia.  They were a fairly shortlived issue also as the French authorities didn't care too much for the notes as they didn't really have a familiar "French" look to them, being unicolour and all.

 


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Re: REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 01:18:57 PM
THANKS FOR THAT BIT OF INFORMATION ON WHO PRINTED THE NOTE

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Re: REDFORD COIN SHOW FINDS
September 26, 2010, 11:36:11 PM
Nice pick up, Joe.
Guess who's going to Noumea next year?
Not you, me, aye.
Also going to Vanuatu.
Hope to pick up some coins for anyone that wants,
but will worry about that later.

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