Occupation Money?

[airborne1092]

My Grandpa gave to me some money that he picked up in the Philippines during WWII. I believe it was money issued by the Japanese for use by the locals.

Anyone ever heard of this, or know about this? I'm at work right now, but I'll try to get a picture in here ASAP...

Thanks for the info!

 

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[Mackaydon]

Scroll down on this Wiki site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_government-issued_Philippine_fiat_peso
Are these the bills you are referring to?
Don.....

 

[ivan salis]

yes the japanese had "paper" money made for use by the locals in the phillipines --american soldiers that went to the phillipines in 1944 to retake them from the japanese often brought the bills home a "sovie" items -- a sort of see I was there thing.

the japanese also printed "mexican" peso notes fpr use in mexico *--they had planned to invade several of mexico's west coast ports to use as a bases to attack america from. (that of course never happened)

 

[airborne1092]

That is exactly what they are - they are the 1942 series; I have several 5 & 10 Peso bills.

According to the wiki, they weren't worth too much!

Probably not too much these days either!

Thanks folks - I'm suprised I didn't see that wiki entry - I am after all the Wiki-king here at work!

 

[mts]

Cool! I recently bought my daughter a Japanese one peso bill from the 1943 series. I didn't even realize what it was. A dealer at a local coin show was selling various foreign bills three for $1 so we picked up a few which included one of the Japanese bills. I'm sure that they are worth less than 33 cents but my kids just love getting all kinds of money from other countries so we picked out a few for their collections. I never knew that this particular bill had such an interesting story behind it.

Thanks for the info.