Auction 88
Historical Militaria, Autographs, and Ephemera Auction, Feb. 8 & 9, 2021
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Feb 8, 2021
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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1,400 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 584:
'OPERATION BERNARD' GERMAN COUNTERFEIT BRITISH BANK NOTE
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Sold for: $260
Start price:
$
100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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'OPERATION BERNARD' GERMAN COUNTERFEIT BRITISH BANK NOTE
A neat World War II relic, a counterfeit British ten pound bank note created in huge quantities by the SS in an effort to destabilize the British economy. The plates and notes were produced by inmates at the notorious Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and so pleased were the German captors, they actually awarded the prisoners (three Jews among them) War Merit medals! Before the notes could be dumped in England, a design flaw was discovered and the entire hoard was withheld. Late in the war, an American soldier stumbled upon a small quantity of the notes and 'liberated' them, this being one of those notes. Fine.
