Hello all,

I just had a nice phone call from a fellow who has a
few Allied military currency specimen booklets for
sale. That is of course nice, and interesting too, but
there is more.

He has had the booklets for a long time. The booklets
include an expedient set of the lire notes. This is
only the third such booklet reported, none of which
were reported even 10 years ago. These are very
intersting items. It is particularly interesting in
that they were part of a group of "regular"
manufacturers booklets. The other two expedient s came
as singletons which allowed no hint of provenance.

The story gets better! The fellow bought these sets a
number of years ago at a GUN show. The fellow from
whom he bought them had a small group of these
booklets so the buyer thought that he would buy one of
each which he did.

Now that is an interesting story and it makes all of
us think "why could't that happen to me!" I often
discount such stories as being the product of bad
memories or concocted to support some personal agenda.
I always figure that the items must stand on their own
merit anyway so that it does not make much difference
what the story is. In this case though it is very
interesting, because it is exactly the same story told
to me by another collector just a few years ago. Both
of these guys must have found this same dealer and his
pile of booklets. 

How many were there altogether? Where did they come
from? Where have they gone? Are any left? Those and
other questions remain unanswered. They are things of
dreams!

Have a great day.

Fred



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