FREE: WWII PHILIPPINES JAPAN 100 PESOS 1943 MONUMENT UNC JIM CURRENCY WARII MONEY NOTE

The listing, WWII PHILIPPINES JAPAN 100 PESOS 1943 MONUMENT UNC JIM CURRENCY WARII MONEY NOTE has ended.

This is your chance to own a piece of history from WWII! This is the real deal, not a replica note, but the actual WWII Banknote. Uncirculated condition.

(please note the first picture above is from the website I bought this bill from, just to show detail. All the other pics are the ones I took. YOU ARE BIDDING ON ONE BILL ONLY!)

This bill is not a replica bill - IT IS THE REAL DEAL!

Japanese Invasion Money was officially known as Southern Development Bank Notes. It is a currency that was issued by the Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency. In February 1942 Japan passed laws which established the Wartime Finance Bank and the Southern Development Bank. Both of these banks issued bonds to raise funding for the war. The former loaned money primarily to military industries. The latter is the one minted these bills. They provided financial services in areas occupied by the Japanese military, and these Southern Development Bank notes were the Japanese Invasion Money up for bids here.

Some Filipinos called the fiat peso "Mickey Mouse money". Many survivors of the war tell stories of going to the market laden with suitcases or "bayong" (native bags made of woven coconut or buri leaf strips) overflowing with the Japanese-issued bills. According to one witness, 75 "Mickey Mouse" pesos, or about 35 U.S. dollars at that time, could buy one duck egg. In 1944, a box of matches cost more than 100 Mickey Mouse pesos.
These bills were often used by American psychological warfare personnel as propaganda leaflets. Japanese occupation banknotes were overprinted with the words "The Co-prosperity Sphere: What is it worth?", in an attempt to discredit the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and dropped from Allied aircraft over the occupied territories.

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