1935-A HAWAII OVERPRINT WORLD WAR II ~ KEY A-C BLOCK SHARP VERY FINE SCARCE

Description

Here is a very scarce
Series 1935-A note, World War II Emergency issue for Hawaii, key A-C block.
Overprinted
HAWAII
twice vertically across the face; large horizontal
H A W A I I
across the back. Brown serial numbers and seal.
Serial #
A99059507C
.
Treasury signatures of Julian and Morgenthau
.
The A-C block has become the key to set after the F-C block. Very few A-C block notes were saved in any grade.
SHARP VERY FINE. NO PINHOLES or TEARS.
SEE PHOTOS
The U.S., fearful after the Pearl Harbor attack that the Japanese would invade and seize the Hawaiian Islands, issued a decree requiring the removal of all U.S. currency from the Islands and its replacement with special , , and notes, with brown serial numbers and seals, overprinted HAWAII. These notes were the only currency legal tender in the Islands from mid-1942. The idea was that if the Japanese seized the Islands, all of the Brown seal HAWAII notes could be declared worthless and the Japanese would not get any financial benefit. However, this invasion
did not come to pass.
The HAWAII notes were the only notes circulating in Hawaii and the Pacific until mid 1944
. Most US troops serving in the Pacific Theater of war were paid in these HAWAII notes. After the war, they were gradually withdrawn from circulation and destroyed.
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