From: mpcgram-owner@papermoneyworld.net on behalf of MPCgram [mpcgram@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:50 PM To: mpcgram@papermoneyworld.net Subject: MPCGram 1482 ------------------------ / MPC Gram News Letter / ----------------------- =========================================== MPC GRAM =========================================== Vol 7, no 1482 Tuesday July 11, 2006 Colorado Mini Fest by Bill Myers & Warner Talso A spontaneous minifest broke out at 1400 at the Colorado Springs coin show on 8 JUL 2006. In attendance were Kathy & Don Freeland, Bill Myers, Tony James, Warner Talso, Robert Drew, Sam & Max Spiegel, David Klinger, Ken Hallenbeck and of course Fred Schwan and Joe Boling. Items shown included a music book from the AEF, a medal commemorating battles in WWI, a Belgium medal presented to an American in appreciation for support given to the refugees, two Nazi medals denominated in shillings (use uncertain), three notes similar to Azad Hind notes that were for good wishes, checks denominated in gallons of gas, ration checks, notes from the Atlanta ANA, a check from Coca-cola (presented because soldiers drink coke...weak), receipts from old utility bills and others. Tony James is an Austalian paper money dealer who will be taking the Basic Military Numismatics at the summer seminar. He had completed Joe Bolings Counterfeit Detection course. He brought some of his stock and it contained some quite interesting pieces. He has managed to seperated some of us from our FRNs. Pay was received which was a $50 serial numbered note with a picture of Abe Lincoln next to a flag as well as the obverse and reverse of a Pan Pacific round $50 and MPC Fest 2002 on the face. It was also overprinted with Memphis 2006, had a postage cancellation dated Jun 16 2006 from the International Paper Money Show Station at the Memphis show and Summer Seminar Colorado Springs 2006 in gold print. The back has the photo of the statue from the Lincoln Memorial and with ANA overprinted in green. The other note is a $20 with a portait of Liberty and the obverse and reverse of a St Gaudens $20. It has the same overprints as the $50 but is a specimen. The back has the statue of liberty with ANA overprinted in green. Joe Boling's paybook was full so he had to be issued a temporary book. The meeting adjourned at 1445. ********************************************************** Championship Question Corner Question: List seven countries that had forces stationed in occupied Germany. Question 139, difficulty 3. Yesterday's Question: How many blocks were printed for AM yen? Question 138, difficulty 2. Comments from the field: Bill Myers wrote: A yen had two blocks A-A & H-A (replacements). The B yen had blocks A-A & H-A for 10 & 50 sen, 10, 20 & 100 yen. 1 yen had blocks A-A, B-B, C-C, D-D, & H-A. 5 yen had Blocks A-A, B-B & H-A. The 1000 yen had blocks A-A, B-B, C-C,D-D & E-E. So in summary A yen had 2 blocks & B yen had 2, 3 & 5 blocks depending on the denomination. I hope I did not mess this one up like the last 2. [Well, here we go again. You answered the question that I asked instead of the one I intended! I had intended to ask what blocks were issued for AM 1000 yen notes. Now we will clarify your answer. You forgot one. What was it?] Lire Falling The exchange rate for Allied Fest certificates has been falling significantly. It closed at 3.35 lire per dollar on Tuesday. Speculation about the cause has ranged from world cup results to rumors about the future of Summer Seminars. ========================================== Editorial ========================================== Wow, the ANA authorities have announced a decision that simply confirms the announcement made yesterday by Don Kagin and reported here. We hope to have the entire text of the news release tomorrow. Just as I commended Don's leadership today, I commend the ANA staff for clarifying and confirming the decision. The summer seminar is a gem. It is an important program in more ways than we can count. This entire matter has taken too much of my time and energy this week, but hopefully something good will come of it. One of the facts repeatedly stated regarding the seminar is that it serves less than one percent of the membership. This figure has been more or less accepted because it seems obvious that 300 teachers and students are less than one percent of 33,000. One of the teachers of the coins in the classroom class told me that while that might be true, the one percent is an important one percent being a very high percentage of the very influential members. I think that is a good point. In addition, I have been thinking about this and believe that an important part has been forgotten. A very high percentage of people come to the seminar on scholarship. Those scholarships are created and supported by many other members (and potential members). Let us just consider the one person who is here on the internal military collectors scholarship. More than sixty collectors participated in raising the money. All of them support the scholarship--and seminar. They realize that it is important to the hobby and therefore to them personally. Another person is here on a scholarship for winning best of show at the FUN convention. Not only did the FUN board of directors approve and support this, but this wonderful prize was certainly coveted by other participants at the FUN convention. Then of course there are YN scholarships with similar connections. Parents and gradparents who are excited about participation of YNs even if they cannot participate themselves. Therefore, I estimate that if there are 300 people present, they represent at least 3300 total participants or 10% of the membership. Finally, these remote participants vary more each year than do actual attendees. Furthermore, two scholarship receipents with whom I have spoken state that they are expected to write articles for the respective journals one the seminar experience hence more influence. Another paying participant writes for a foreign numismatic publication and states that he will have at least three articles in his magazine about the seminar, ANA, and the experience. Although I at first accepted the one percent argument, I now know better as described above. ========================================= Mail Call =========================================== Dear Gram, The question on the German lotterie tickets has this answer. There were 13 lotteries with the 13th being considered not issued due to being close to the end of the war. There have been remainder tickets recorded for the 13th lotterie without a merchant stamp. We have since found some tickets that have a lotterie merchant stamp on them leading us to believe that some were issued even though there was never a drawing for this lotterie. There are Roman Numerals in the corners of these tickets, I, II, III, which stands for 400,000 tickets being printed for each group, total amount of tickets for each issue was 1.2 million. There are 5 Klasses per each lotterie. Harold Kroll ========================================== Calendar =========================================== 2006 The London Paper Money Fair has moved to: Victory Services Club, 63 Seymour Street, off Edgware Road, Marble Arch London and the dates are: July 2 and Nov 26. see: www.britishnotes.co.uk or www.londonpapermoneyfair.co.uk 1-14 July ANA summer seminar Colorado Springs Coin Show on July 7, 8, & 9 with lots of folks from the seminar and probably a mini Fest on Saturday afternoon. 16-20 August ANA convention, Denver September 14th-16th, Long Beach, mini fest to be annuonced The World Paper Money Fair, organised by the London chapter of the IBNS will be September 30/October 1 at the new venue: Hotel Russell, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London.  see: www.ibnslondon.org.uk Oct/Nov Pcda St Louis ========================================== for dealer Hot Contact list, ANA MPC museum holdings and other static information please click this link: http://www.papermoneyworld.net/Gramattichments.htm ========================================= POST / BASE EXCHANGE(PX/BX/NEX) Dump your dupes! 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