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A TOTALLY AMATEUR BANKNOTE COLLECTOR

Sunday 11 June 2017

IS THIS A PRISONER OF WAR CURRENCY ?



This is quite an interesting note it is from (British) East Africa in that there are varying stories behind it the most accepted is that it was used in British POW camps in occupied  Italian Somaliland. Although Italian prisoners of war (POW) didn't remember them being used. Although British East Africa included Kenya, Zanzibar Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Uganda, its currency was  also used in British Somalian (NW part of modern Somalia) and the protectorate of Aden (now in Yemen)

The note is a 1 /- (shilling) note from the war period between 1940-1945 and is uniface (printed on one side only)

More East African notes HERE


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