SAM

These are an interesting collecting area, and most notes are relatively inexpensive. The Japanese issued 35 different occupation notes for China and Indochina, 14 notes for the Dutch East Indies, 10 for Malaya, 13 for Philippines, 9 for Burma and 4 for Australia. Obviously the Australian notes were never used !

Prior to this they issued military notes for the Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Tsingtau Expedition in 1914-15 and the Siberian Expedition in 1919-20. Most of these earlier notes are scarce and expensive with almost no examples of Sino Japanese War notes surviving.

That is a interesting collection of notes you have. I collect Japanese Occupation Currency also. I remember a story my dad a WW.2 vet told me a about when they were on the troop ships home, they had been in the field a good long time and they didn't have any money to play poker on the ship home with so they used the invasion currency that they had pick up or found here and there on the different islands to play with. My dad brought home quite a stack of it that started my collection.