From: "MPCgram" To: Subject: MPCGram 1005 Date: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:59 AM =========================================== MPC GRAM =========================================== Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics Series 004 - Number 1005 Thursday September 11, 2003 Packaging of AM Yen by Howard A. (The Master Sergeant) Daniel III   At the Charlotte ANA National Money Show on March 23 (the last day), a man walks up to my NI/NBS/IBNS club table.  He asked me if I knew anything about American dollar notes for Japan after World War II.  I get some wild questions at the table and this one was starting off to be the best for this show.  I started questioning the man by what he meant by dollars for Japan, and I quickly figured out he was talking about Allied Military Currency (AMC), but he insisted they were dollars. But as I questioned him further, he started to become a little irritated with me.  Most of you know me as of diplomat quality, so I could not see why he was getting upset with me.  So I stopped telling him they were not dollars and asked him why he was asking me about these notes.  He said his father, Albert Nelson Dale Jr. an US Army T2 (Corporal) was on the Army detail packing this paper money at the San Francisco Mint during WWII, and that prisoners were being used as the packers while prison guards closely guarded the whole thing.  Wow!  This was getting interesting, but I could see he was not into my interrogation, so I asked him if he was interested in purchasing any of the pieces for himself.  He replied in the affirmative, so I gave him directions to Leo May. After about ten minutes, I walked to Leo’s table and the man was going through AMC and JIM notes with him.  I sat down and decided to start my interrogation again.  This time, he was not so upset and was really happy.  I guess Leo put him in the right mood.  I asked him if he remembered any of the details about what his father said about packing the money.  He repeated the location, using prisoners with a small Army detail, and lots of prison guards.  Then he added that 10,000 notes were placed in each wooden crate, the wooden lids were pre-holed for screws and they were screw down onto the crates when the packing was completed.  Then the top of each screw had plastic seals put over them.  This was very interesting but he knew no more about the seals.  Do you think they were some form of wax and stamped with seals to easily show that anyone had played with them?  Then he said each crate was wrapped in several metal bands.  He could not remember anything else, but his father must have participated in getting the crates to a ship(s) or plane(s).  Maybe Fred, Joe or one of you can start corresponding with him and find out more about his father’s association with Japan AMC.  His name is Albert N. Dale III, and he lives at 9029 Victory Trail, Union Mills, NC 28167, and his father might have left him many WWII photographs and other “stuff”, so it would be very worthwhile to contact this man.  But please handle him gently and not like my old Master Sergeant ways.  Good luck! =========================================== Editorial/opinion =========================================== AmAus microFest one is coming to a close. Mark Freehill is leaving in the morning to continue his North American adventures. Over the past two days, he has passed every Fest coin challenge that I have made so I think that he will be ready for future events. We have had a great time. He has expressed his intention of writing some stories about the event to insure that his side will be told. If we could just get him on email, we should get lots of submissions. We finished this evening (well, started Friday morning) by going through WWII Remembered figuring out some enhancements that he can make for the next edition. They will all be great. =========================================== MAIL CALL =========================================== Dear Gram, Here is my reservation [check] for Fest VI. (I already have my Fest V reservation! I just have the overwhelming desired to be the first for Fest VI. First from Texas. John Cheney [via snail mail] Dear John, Well, you have done it. First from Texas, first from anywhere. I suspect that Leo will be mad at you since for the past two years he has been the first to register for the Fest by registering for the next Fest at the close of the first Fest. Festers and Gramsters never cease to amaze me! Nevertheless, thanks for the check. We are delighted to accept it and add a new listing to the calendar for 2005! Editor Dear Editor, Think everyone will figure out who wrote my column today? Anonymous Dear Ann, Yes, I am sorry, we left the header off Joe Boling’s column on Tuesday. Because of the mixup, we will extend all subscriptions by two issues. Editor =========================================== CALENDAR OF EVENTS =========================================== Long Beach California will be Saturday Sept. 20 at 5:00 PM in one of the rooms adjoining the show. Contact: Al Glaser, thetrader.2@cox.net. PCDA National and World Paper Money Convention. November 19-23, 2003. St. Louis Hilton Airport Hotel, 10330 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63134. Lyn Knight auction, consignment deadline September 30, 2003 2004 CPMX February 26-28, Lyn Knight auction. Consignment deadline January 10, 2004. March 5-7, MPCFest V, reservations now being accepted. Reservations entered in order received: Roger Urce#$$, John Cheney#$, David Seelye, Harold Kroll, Gail Baker#, Leo May$$$, Kevin Neidy, Cuneyd Tolek, Warner Talso, Cameron Bueschel, Wendell Wolka, John V. Craig#, John Cheney#, Steve Swoish, Joe Bissell#, Sparky Watson, Nick Schrier, Loretta Freyser, Dick Freyser, Ron Waddell, Robert Drew, Ed Arrich#, Neil Shafer#, Fred Schwan. # new Fester, $ paid. $$ paid single occupancy. Running totals: total 24, new festers 8. Standard rate $148, single occupancy $198, payments may be made by mailing paper instruments of any kind to BNR Press (or MPCFest or even Fred Schwan) at 132 E. Second St., Port Clinton, OH 43452. Payments may also be sent via PayPal (fredschawan@yahoo.com). Once you have sent your payment, monitor the above list to ensure that it has been received and posted). Show n tell: Gail Baker (education@money.org ) Travel coordination: Sparky Watson (mcwatson@yahoo.com ) Auction items: Larry Smulczenski (skifla@prodigy.net) Exhibits: Joe Boling (joeboling@aol.com) Masstricht April 23-25, Valkenburg, The Netherlands, contact Jos Eijsermans, Box 3240, NL 5930 Tegelen Netherlands 2005 date tba, MPCFest VI, reservations now being accepted. Reservations entered in order received: John Cheney$, Fred Schwan. # new Fester, $ paid. $$ paid single occupancy. Running totals: total 2, new festers 0. ======================================== 2004 scholarship fund Donations of cash and numismatic material will be gladly accepted. Generally the numismatic material is auctioned at MPCFest, but might be sold via ebay or other places. Your scholarship donations help the hobby by sending qualified individuals to the ANA summer seminar military money class. Except for unavoidable charges like ebay fees, 100% of yourdonation goes to scholarships. 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Thank you http://www.papermoneyworld.net/news/Military Numismatists Scholarship Fund 2003.pdf Marcus Turner Scholarships from the ANA: See the following location for an application for financial aid to the summer seminar: http://www.money.org/sumsemfin.html =========================================== MPC ANA Museum Project =========================================== ANA collection of MPC: Thanks to donations from Douglas Bell, Dick Fryser, Ed Beaman, Bruce Peacock, David Seelye, Michael Cummings, Ray Czahor, David Pitchford and Mr 691the ANA MPC collection is current as follows: Series 100 - [50 sen], [1Y, 5Y, 10Y, 20Y all A underprint] Series 461 - 5, [10] cents, [$1] Series 471 - [5, 10, 25, 50 cents, $10] Series 472 - [5, 10 cents], [$1, $10] Series 481 - 5 cents, [10, 25 cents], 50 cents, $1, [$5] $10 Series 521 - 5, 10, 25, 50 cents, [$10] Series 541 - 5, 10, 25 cents Series 591 - [5, 10, 25, 50 cents, $1] Series 611 - [5, 10, 25 cents, $1] Series 641 - 5, 10, 25, 50 cents, $1, $5, $10 Series 651 - [$1] Series 661 - [10, 25, 50c], [$5], [$1, $5] $10 Series 681 - 5, 10, 25, 50 cents, $1, [$5], [$20] Series 691 - [$1, $5, $10, $20] Series 692 - 5, 10, 25, 50 cents, $1 Series 701 - [$1, $5, $10, $20] [50c etc.] = notes donated by Gramsters --Chris Connell =========================================== RESEARCH =========================================== New modification to the database you can now retrieve your password if you have forgotten at the main logon screen. 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