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Coins & Token of Hawaii at our NSNS club meeting on Tuesday 17th August

Haiku token

Hi everyone, The next North Shore Numismatic Society’s Zoom Meeting is Tuesday, August 17th. 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: Julian Ticehurst, will be hosting this month’s meeting and will present a PowerPoint on “The Coins and Tokens of Hawaii”. This PowerPoint covers the history of coins and the introduction of private plantation tokens for use in the Hawaiian Islands from 1847 to 1900. August 2021 Auction 1 3 Canada Cased Silver Dollars – 1971,72,73 Est. $45…

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United States Banknotes for Hawaii

US $5 Hawaii

In early 1942, the United States government began issuing a special set of banknotes custom-made for Hawaii. The back of each note looked identical to the existing U.S. paper currency apart from one major difference: the word “HAWAII” was stamped across it. The design of these notes wasn’t the most elegant—the “HAWAII” looked as though it was inscribed by someone with a black ballpoint pen and a ruler. But that’s understandable, given their circumstances: these banknotes were an emergency series, rushed to print in the months following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The idea was that if Japan invaded Hawaii, the U.S. government could immediately…

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