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FUN Signature Currency Sale 3552 5 January 2017
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Great Britain £10 Operation Bernhard Counterfeit Bank of England 18.7.1934 Pick 336ax. In 1942 German SS Major Walter Bernhard Kruger assembled a group of Jewish artists, engravers, printers, and technicians in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in order to counterfeit British paper money. This note was the result of their clandestine work. Operation Bernhard prefixes for the $10 denomination are listed on page 164 in World War II Remembered by C. Frederick Schwan and Joseph E. Boling. This K139 note grades Extremely Fine with pinholes, a few tiny edge tears, and a missing piece at upper right.
Estimate: 275-375 USD
Great Britain £10 Operation Bernhard Counterfeit Bank of England 18.7.1934 Pick 336ax. In 1942 German SS Major Walter Bernhard Kruger assembled a group of Jewish artists, engravers, printers, and technicians in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in order to counterfeit British paper money. This note was the result of their clandestine work. Operation Bernhard prefixes for the $10 denomination are listed on page 164 in World War II Remembered by C. Frederick Schwan and Joseph E. Boling. This K139 note grades Extremely Fine with pinholes, a few tiny edge tears, and a missing piece at upper right.
Estimate: 275-375 USD