Number of posts : 643 Localisation : North Yorkshire Cap Badge : RAOC Registration date : 2009-08-27
Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 14/1/2015, 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.....
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
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
Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 14/1/2015, 21:46
Normally 20cl or 25cl. I've still got some of the glasses
Sgmn Sgt
Number of posts : 30 Age : 86 Localisation : Leeds, ex-Dundee Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Germany; Cyprus Registration date : 2012-12-04
Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2015, 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.....
Who would do something like that?
Not sure. The rumour was that some drivers were involved.
Sgmn Sgt
Number of posts : 30 Age : 86 Localisation : Leeds, ex-Dundee Cap Badge : Jimmy Places Served : Germany; Cyprus Registration date : 2012-12-04
Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2015, 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.....
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.
Shelldrake FM
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2015, 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.....
Who would do something like that?
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!!
cartav Maj Gen
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2015, 17:15
Shelldrake wrote:
[quote= As were 5 gallon jerrycans of petrol.....
Who would do something like that? 5 [/quote] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
alantalbot LCpl
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 12/4/2015, 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.
KrisT Sgt
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 24/9/2017, 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?
Shelldrake FM
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 25/9/2017, 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?
KrisT 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
Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 25/9/2017, 13:14
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.
Pborn4 Brig
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Subject: BAFVs Party 28/6/2021, 22:54
The only one missing, as far as I can see,
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Pborn4 Brig
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/7/2021, 10:39
any one seen or found the 9/- (nine bob) note?
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steve LE Maj
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2023, 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
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alan8376 Brig
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 15/1/2023, 21:37
I found this under a VW Car wheel today! I left a Shilling behind!
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Subject: Re: BAOR Bank Notes 26/2/2024, 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.