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Post by The Phantom on Oct 15, 2012 5:41:21 GMT 8
How about the VICTORY money was printed on June 18, 1922, can't read the date on the bill well, even with a magnifying glass. Says one good eye.............
Reprinted and reissued before the invasion?
Look at the last line under the Treasury Certificate description, at the top of the first side shown, for the date.
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Post by pdh54 on Oct 15, 2012 8:10:28 GMT 8
Her's some more info to muddy the H2O even more. An excerpt from a posting by redphoenix62 on the web site histollection.blogspot.com/2009/06/1-peso-victory-note.htmlIn October of 1944, MacArthur (along with the US Army and Navy) did return to the Philippines. By February of 1945, the islands were secured and the Philippine Islands were once again under American sovereignty. Carried along with the American forces was a new issue of Treasury Certificates to reestablish the US-Philippine monetary system on the islands. These notes, while maintaining the designs of the pre-WWII issues, were distinguished from previous notes by the overprinting of “VICTORY” on the back of each note. “Victory Notes,” as they have come to be called, were issued in denominations of one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred and five hundred pesos. Like the older issues of Treasury Certificates, this one also got smaller text found in the upper border that applies to all victory notes which says: BY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF THE PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE, APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JUNE 13, 1922.This probably explains the date on the note Patty
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Post by chadhill on Sept 11, 2013 1:05:51 GMT 8
My friend, collector Carl Jones, gave me this empty envelope which had an interesting stamp I had not seen before. The Corregidor stamp was issued in the USA on September 27, 1944. Though not rare, I thought I would share it here.
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Post by okla on Sept 11, 2013 7:42:31 GMT 8
Hey Chad.....Your post brought back a childhood memory for me. As a 12 year old lad, in the early spring of 1945, I decided to forego my usual 5 cent bag of popcorn at the local movie house and, instead, after the film, walked across the street to the Post Office of my small Oklahoma town of Claremore (ironically the location, at that time, of the Alma Mater of the recently deceased Colonel Ed Ramsay, Oklahoma Military Academy)and purchased one of these stamps. It remained in my meager stamp collection until I traded the album for a baseball glove a couple of years later. You see, I had been a Bataan/Corregidor "geek" for over three years when it was issued. Cheers. Postscript....Good to see you back posting. I was beginning to think that maybe the grim reaper had been stalking you, but surely Patty would have kept the rest of us informed. Glad you are back.
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Post by okla on Sept 11, 2013 7:52:12 GMT 8
Hey Chad....One more thing. I re-visited your entire "Relic" thread and when viewing the pic of the hand grenade was reminded that only last week, some moron, here in Tulsa, blew the four fingers of his right hand off while monkeying with what he thought was an inert WW 2 grenade. Needless to say, this guy was never an Oxford scholar. Cheers.
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Post by chadhill on Sept 12, 2013 7:38:10 GMT 8
Okla, when I was in the P.I. in the '80s the EOD (explosive ordnance) unit in Guam was kept pretty busy recovering stuff all over the Pacific battlefields. I seem to remember that a young boy was killed when he picked up a WW2 grenade at Clark. There were a few other fatalities and injuries, too, in other places. Eric Mailander told me when he visited Peleliu in the '90s there was an abundance of live ordnance on that island. A couple of USN and USMC friends who splunked caves in Okinawa came back with a crate full of US and Japanese grenades they had found and defused.
There are still 1944 Corregidor stamps to be found on e-bay if you would like to restore your long lost collection:). Cheers-
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Post by cbuehler on Sept 15, 2013 0:38:36 GMT 8
I have found or received dozens of those Japanese occupation notes from PI over the years. They printed so many that they ares still everywhere in both PI and the states. They never made postwar copies to my knowledge as the originals are so ubiquitous. I too have found quite a few relics on the Rock in my few visits years ago. I know that our esteemed EXO is aware of my finds in the portion of the Mile Long barracks on topside that served as the equipment and ammo dump for the 503rd during the battle. The famous parachute find came from there as well. I have not been on Corregidor for 7 years now, but even then there were still many relics to be found by those so inclined, although they are no longer readily visible on the surface anymore.
CB
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