Category: WWII

“Banknotes Made To Deceive Collectors” Joe Bolling – Our club Zoom meeting Tuesday, September 21st

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Hi everyone, The next North Shore Numismatic Society’s Zoom Meeting is Tuesday, September 21st. You can sign onto Zoom at 6:30 pm and the meeting will start at 7:00 pm. It is open to both members and non-members, so everyone is welcome. Program: Our guest speaker is Joseph Boling, co-author of the book “World War II Remembered”. Joe is going to present a PowerPoint on “Banknotes Made To Deceive Collectors”. The notes to be shown are ones that are replicas intended to sell to collectors, not to circulate (made years after the originals). In a few cases they might have…

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Scrip: British POW Camps in India 1941

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India Coin News notes > The British established POW camps in India in 1941 as a result of the large number of POWs captured during the North Africa campaign. Over 100,000 POWs were transfered to camps in India which held Italian and Japanese POWs and German, Japanese, and Italian civilian internees. Some Indian political prisoners were also held in the camps. Ten of the camps were known to have issued currency. There were two major types of notes issued. Type one notes have a 6 mm bar on the left side of the note and type two notes do not. A…

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Stamps: Canada’s War Issue 1942 – 1943

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Canada’s War Issue 1942 – 1943 On July 1 1942, a new series of definitive stamps was issued showing Canada’s contribution to the war effort of the Allied Nations. The Post Office Department issued stamps portraying King George as head of the Armed Forces in naval, military and air force uniforms. Subjects depicting Canada’s munitions, war supplies, shipbuilding, agriculture, her importance as a great air-training centre, and as a source of food were chosen for the pictorial stamps. The low value definitives with George VI in military uniforms were in use until 1949, while the War Issue pictorials were replaced by…

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