50 Yugoslavia Serbia Dinara May 1942 OSS American Made COUNTERFEIT WWII Pilots

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50 Yugoslavia Serbia Dinara May 1942 OSS American Made COUNTERFEIT WWII Pilots
50 Yugoslavia Serbia Dinara May 1942 OSS American Made COUNTERFEIT WWII Pilots
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Excellent quality original note.  If you buy more than one, your serial numbers WILL be sequential.
Fresh from the estate of a Colonial and Revolutionary War historian and author, this is one of many 17th, 18th, 19th, & early 20th century items that I am offering from the collection.  I have not been able to find much information about these notes, however, I was able to find a perfect match on a reputable WWII website.  This is the information I found:
Sometimes there is doubt about whether or not a banknote is a government-sponsored forgery. For instance, there is the case of the
alleged
United States government forgery of the 50 dinara Serbian National Banknote of 1 May 1942. I first ran across a brick of about 100 of these banknotes about 1990. The seller was the wife of a deceased WWII airman who claimed that the banknotes were government forgeries issued to her husband when he flew over Yugoslavia. He was to use them to bribe the locals and pay for supplies if he was shot down. There was no proof of such an operation so I never quite believed the story.
Then another such note was offered for sale, once again from the estate of a deceased airman. The background story was exactly the same. So, although we cannot say for sure that these banknotes were prepared by the OSS or some other clandestine agency to be used by downed pilots, we can say that there is some interesting circumstantial evidence. The alleged forgeries are of excellent quality. In the initial offering the banknotes had the red serial numbers M.0234 / 101 to M.0234 / 200. The more recent banknote had the serial number M.0234 / 499, which indicates that it is from the same general printing. One of the very minor differences I noted between the genuine and forged banknotes are in the issue date on the front, “MAJ 1942,” in which the crossbar in the “A” is slanted in the genuine and perfectly horizontal in the forgery and the number “9” which is broken slightly in the genuine and perfectly smooth in the forgery. There is a small box at the bottom of the back of the note and in it the first Cyrillic letter has a break at the bottom left of the letter “ehf,” (F) whereas the letter is perfect in the genuine.
Author and historian John A. Nagy had in his estate about 100 of the 50 dinara Serbian banknotes that are exactly as described above. He has the original wrapper with his handwritten notes stating a story exactly like that we describe above. The message is:
Counterfeits printed by U.S. Government to destabilize Yugo. Currency, given to U.S. pilots in case of a crash landing.
So, are these forgeries of Serbian banknotes? Maybe. Are they government forgeries? Maybe. Are they U.S. or German forgeries? The circumstantial evidence leans toward the United States, but we have seen no official documents yet that state that the U.S, forged Serbian currency. The reader must decide.
--These notes that I am offering are from the Nagy collection.  After his death, I was able to purchase the entire collection directly from his Wife.  I have hundreds of documents from the collection available on ebay now.--
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