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Mike_2817
LE Maj
LE Maj
Mike_2817


Number of posts : 643
Localisation : North Yorkshire
Cap Badge : RAOC
Registration date : 2009-08-27

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime14/1/2015, 17:01

Sgmn wrote:
wrinkles wrote:
larrytheone wrote:


We were in Minden on 61/62 and although often heard references to BAFF's I never actually saw any. We were, from day 1, paid in DM and if memory serves 1DM = just under 2/- (2 shillings or 10p in todays money)
You got 1.5pf change from 1DM for 20 Senior Service cigs.
I was in Minden '55 to '58, and the exchange rate was 12 DM for one pound and sixpence. Cigs were 1 shilling for 20. Beer in the local pubs could be purchased for 25 pfennigs a glass-48 beers for a pound! Happy days..... drunken

These beers, were they large or small?

By comparison in 1958 a pint of Bitter cost 11d - That's 22ish pints to the pound

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brian beckett
SSgt/CSgt
SSgt/CSgt



Number of posts : 55
Age : 85
Cap Badge : rasc
Places Served : Tower of London(initially in Royal Fusiliers) Aldershot, Sennelager & RAF Bruggen
Registration date : 2009-02-04

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime14/1/2015, 21:46

Normally 20cl or 25cl. I've still got some of the glasses
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Sgmn
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Sgt



Number of posts : 30
Age : 86
Localisation : Leeds, ex-Dundee
Cap Badge : Jimmy
Places Served : Germany; Cyprus
Registration date : 2012-12-04

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2015, 11:00

Shelldrake wrote:
Sgmn wrote:
GEM wrote:
 It was also illegal to sell cigarettes or coffee to locals but it was one way of getting hold of DMs!!
As were 5 gallon jerrycans of petrol..... pale



Who would do something like that? confused confused
Not sure. The rumour was that some drivers were involved.
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Sgmn
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Number of posts : 30
Age : 86
Localisation : Leeds, ex-Dundee
Cap Badge : Jimmy
Places Served : Germany; Cyprus
Registration date : 2012-12-04

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2015, 11:23

Mike_2817 wrote:
Sgmn wrote:
wrinkles wrote:
larrytheone wrote:


We were in Minden on 61/62 and although often heard references to BAFF's I never actually saw any. We were, from day 1, paid in DM and if memory serves 1DM = just under 2/- (2 shillings or 10p in todays money)
You got 1.5pf change from 1DM for 20 Senior Service cigs.
I was in Minden '55 to '58, and the exchange rate was 12 DM for one pound and sixpence. Cigs were 1 shilling for 20. Beer in the local pubs could be purchased for 25 pfennigs a glass-48 beers for a pound! Happy days..... drunken

These beers, were they large or small?

By comparison in 1958 a pint of Bitter cost 11d - That's 22ish pints to the pound
IIRC about a schooner in size.

When I started drinking beer was a shilling a pint. This in Dundee, 1953.

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Shelldrake
FM
FM
Shelldrake


Number of posts : 3048
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2015, 14:39

Sgmn wrote:
Shelldrake wrote:
Sgmn wrote:
GEM wrote:
 It was also illegal to sell cigarettes or coffee to locals but it was one way of getting hold of DMs!!
As were 5 gallon jerrycans of petrol..... pale



Who would do something like that? confused confused
Not sure. The rumour was that some drivers were involved.

Ach so! That explains things then, bloody MT, if they weren't drinking they were flogging the kit!! Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad
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cartav
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Maj Gen



Number of posts : 784
Age : 93
Localisation : s. yorks
Cap Badge : RA (ns) RA, R.Sigs, RE ( TAVR)
Places Served : Oswestry, Tonfanau, Woolwich, Osnabruck, MT School Bordon, Bulford, Manorbier, Hameln, R.Sigs Blandford, RSME Chattenden, Western Highlands.
Registration date : 2011-04-26

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2015, 17:15

Shelldrake wrote:
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As were 5 gallon jerrycans of petrol..... pale



Who would do something like that? confused 5 confused [/quote]
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Bugger me ! Our NS Jerry cans only held 4. 1/2 gallons. We lost out again to you Regs !!!!!!! ........... Though we did charge a deposit of 5 marks on the can. They rarely came back.
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Number of posts : 5
Age : 85
Localisation : Spain
Cap Badge : R.A. R.E. & 3WER
Places Served : Munster Larger & TAVR
Registration date : 2015-04-10

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime12/4/2015, 08:38

JAL wrote:
Jim,
They were British Armed Forces Vouchers (BAFV).  I can remember them from Brat days too.   They had plastic coins too, with 6 or 8 sides,  but can't remember which one.  I know they had 3d & 6d notes.   I think they stopped using them around 1958/59 when they went over to Deutsch Marks.
Sorry, British Armed Forces Sterling. We went on to Deutsch Marks in 1959, one pound & six pence bought twelve.
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KrisT
Sgt
Sgt



Number of posts : 37
Age : 86
Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds
Cap Badge : Jimmy
Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia
Registration date : 2017-09-17

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime24/9/2017, 11:41

Stephen Lock wrote:
my parents or whomever would 'split' the edges of these notes and extract the sliver thread up inside (thereby reducing the face value to "0").  .
Why would they do that?
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Shelldrake
FM
FM
Shelldrake


Number of posts : 3048
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime25/9/2017, 12:09

KrisT wrote:
Stephen Lock wrote:
my parents or whomever would 'split' the edges of these notes and extract the sliver thread up inside (thereby reducing the face value to "0").  .
Why would they do that?


Possibly because the silver was worth more than the note?
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KrisT
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Sgt



Number of posts : 37
Age : 86
Localisation : Meanwood, Leeds
Cap Badge : Jimmy
Places Served : Catterick;Newton Abbot;Bunde;Minden; Chester; Nicosia
Registration date : 2017-09-17

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Shelldrake wrote:
KrisT wrote:
Stephen Lock wrote:
my parents or whomever would 'split' the edges of these notes and extract the sliver thread up inside (thereby reducing the face value to "0").  .
Why would they do that?


Possibly because the silver was worth more than the note?
What? Collect the thread and bin the note? I hope it was all worth while in the end.
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Pborn4
Brig
Brig
Pborn4


Number of posts : 653
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16

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PostSubject: BAFVs Party   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime28/6/2021, 22:54

The only one missing, as far as I can see,

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Pborn4
Brig
Brig
Pborn4


Number of posts : 653
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/7/2021, 10:39

any one seen or found the 9/- (nine bob) note?

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steve
LE Maj
LE Maj
steve


Number of posts : 1000
Age : 75
Localisation : near Cuxhaven
Cap Badge : Royal Signals + Royal Engineers
Places Served : Verden-Aller + Willich + Iserlohn + Hameln
Registration date : 2010-02-14

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2023, 14:48

Reviving an old post...taken from Hamburg District G Branch War Diary dated 10 Jun 46:

Few people are aware that Brit occupation forces will have to pay vouchers in their canteens, clubs etc after 1 Aug 46.  One German has expressed what is probably the average view in that, when the change takes place there will soon be a rush of Germans to collect as many vouchers as possible by one means or another, and put them up for sale

This looks like when BAFVs were introduced study

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alan8376
Brig
Brig



Number of posts : 734
Age : 76
Localisation : Norfolk, UK
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : Carlisle AAS, Aden, Hildesheim, Bordon, Fallingbostel, Dover, NI Tours, Osnabruck, Herford, Muenster, UN Nicosia, SBA Dhekellia Cyprus x2, Waterbeach, Civi Street 1988. Retired from VOSA 2007.
Registration date : 2009-07-28

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime15/1/2023, 21:37

I found this under a VW Car wheel today! I left a Shilling behind!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-iF45pOlI



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JGW
SSgt/CSgt
SSgt/CSgt



Number of posts : 42
Localisation : Melksham, Wiltshire
Cap Badge : REME
Places Served : AAS Arborfield, 5 Inf Wksps then 14 Regt. RA Dortmund, 1 Inf Wksps Aden, 22 Sigs Lippstadt, REBCS then 65CSS RE Hameln, Borden, 15/19 H then 9/12 Lancers Tidworth, 4 ADSR, Herford, QoH then 4/7 DGuards Detmold.
Registration date : 2019-03-28

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PostSubject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes   BAOR Bank Notes - Page 3 Icon_minitime26/2/2024, 14:05

I joined 5 Inf Wksps, Dortmund in Oct '63.
A coke cost more than the double rum it went in in the NAAFI.
Cigs were 1/- a pack of 20 but early '64 they went up to 1/3d!!!!!! Didn't we moan! I don't smoke now, but from what I gather of prices today we didn't know we were born back then.
Not sure I'd want to repeat it though.
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