What are Vampire Notes

Posted At : January 17, 2007 10:09 PM | Posted By : James Senick
Related Categories: Banknote Collecting

This is a slang term for a certain German 10,000 mark note design. It's referred to as the "Vampire Note" because, if you turn the bill a certain way, you can see a vampire biting the neck of the German worker pictured. This was supposedly done on purpose, in protest of the government "sucking the common people dry" and is sometimes said to have been a comment on the WWI & pre WWII government figures of Germany.

-- Lee the Stamp Gal

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