Four Shilling Note

Sounds like it was a part of a short snorter, these were accumulated by
soldiers in their travels, and they would save a note from each country they
visited and tape it to the others. They would come out sometimes to be a
long roll. I have only ever seen one complete roll that was not detached
later on. It was owned by a WWII veteran whom brought it to a coin club
meeting, he toured extensively in Europe during the war courtesy of the US
Army.

The Tongan note in itself is not yet worth a lot of money in it's current
state, but I think as time goes by that the historical interests which are
noted on it will make it worth more money to a collector, especially of WWII
memorabilia.

Sometime I will have to ask my father in law if his father saved such a
thing, he has all the rest of his father's WWII memorabilia, some with some
very harrowing and fascinating tales.

Dave

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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:51:58 -0400, "Scottishmoney"
wrote:

Are you referring to the Bahamas 4/- note? It seems like a bit of an
oldball, 5/- was closer to a dollar.

How much real money could a dollar buy in those days? I found a beat
up Tongan 4/- note today at the show. An appropriate find for this
date, as a notation on the back reads "This note accompanied me
through Guadalcanal from July 1942. R.B. Cavanaugh, Lt. USMC,
20.03.1943 / We were (note and me) on a ship which was blown out of
the water."

The note is also interesting in that it appears to bear an official
overprint: where it says "four shillings sterling" there are three
bars through the word "sterling".

Padraic.

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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 07:54:49 -0400, "Scottishmoney"
wrote:

Sounds like it was a part of a short snorter, these were accumulated by
soldiers in their travels,

Actually, I have a number of notes from short snorters (a nice cheap
way of getting various British notes) and this one wasn't - no tape or
stitch marks of any kind.

and they would save a note from each country they
visited and tape it to the others. They would come out sometimes to be a
long roll. I have only ever seen one complete roll that was not detached
later on. It was owned by a WWII veteran whom brought it to a coin club
meeting, he toured extensively in Europe during the war courtesy of the US
Army.

I have one around somewhere (perhaps ten or twelve notes), but can't
find it at the moment.

The Tongan note in itself is not yet worth a lot of money in it's current
state,

I wouldn't think so! It's pretty beat up with lots of holes and rust
stains on one half of it.

Got a 10/- note as well that fared a little better.

Padraic.

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