From: mpcgram-owner@papermoneyworld.net on behalf of MPCgram [mpcgram@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:15 PM To: mpcgram@papermoneyworld.net Subject: MPCGram 1499 corrected the other is really messed up ------------------------ / MPC Gram News Letter / ----------------------- =========================================== MPC GRAM =========================================== Vol 7, no 1499 Tuesday September 5, 2006 The Denver ANA to the Last Evening & Beyond by The Master Sergeant Daniel It was a busy convention for me making up packets of world coins and notes to hand out to young and new collectors. And the location was just inside the main entrance and to the right, so a lot of prospects were always walking by the table. I also had a bag of MPC from David Seeyle to hand out to veterans. Three volunteers at various times were at the table to assist me. This is a new record number of volunteers and they allowed me to attend some meetings and visit with some dealers on the bourse, but not all of them. Andrew from Milwaukee was one of the volunteers and he is 12 years old. Look out for him in the future! Evan Lay, a retired Navy Chief was another volunteer and we talked a LOT about the good ole days! Joe Boling has convinced me I should start exhibiting at the ANA Conventions, so I am going to put together something on the unlisted French military tokens I found in Saigon and used on the French light cruiser, Lamotte Piquet. It was sunk by US Navy bombers in 1945 when it was docked not far from Saigon Port. There was a ship's store on it and after it was sunk, the crew and/or workers threw their tokens in the water/mud. These tokens were discovered a couple of years ago and the finders sold them to dealers in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). They went into junk boxes and I bought all I could find of them. Since then, I have found a couple of pictures of the ship, and some history about it. But nothing about the tokens, and the French collectors I have contacted are VERY interested in them. If you know anything about this ship, please contact me at HADaniel3@msn.com. At the convention, I bought three Mexican cobs with chops and what appears to be at least one Southeast Asian counterstamp on each of them. And one French Exposition Medal of 1900 which was awarded to a shipping company in Cochinchina. Gary Snover also said he might have something on my want list back in his inventory. I am hoping he finds the pieces!!!! That was all I bought at the convention from the bourse. At the Philippines Collectors Forum, David Provost gave a talk about the unaccepted design for a Peso coin in the US Philippines that is illustrated in a Niel Shafer book. He found an artist who could make the dies and have the coin struck. He added a 2006 date and the initials of the artist and designer, and they were struck on silver planchets. His total cost was around $2500. for producing 50 pieces, and many of us paid him $50.00 for one of them. His email address is David.Provost@rtp.ppdi.com At the IBNS Meeting, a young man by the name Sam Spiegal gave a talk about what is on the back of the AMC notes for France. It was an excellent talk on something no one had looked at before on these notes. Then I lost control of the meeting and it broke down into chaos as it became somewhat of a Mini-Fest. This was followed by the NI Meeting where Don Dool gave a talk and illustrated on a screen his AD dated European Siege Coins of the 15th and 16th Centuries. How far back can someone go to collect military items? I attended many other meetings but nothing military appeared in them. But there was a few raised voices at the ANA Representative Breakfast and they could have used some MPs to settle everyone down. The ANA Banquet had an excellent meal and my table was chaired by Fred and Judy. There were several other Festers sitting at it but I was concentrating on the two beautiful ladies on each side of me. I departed my hotel room at 4:30AM with Joe Boling snoring away in his bed. I drove back on I-70 and then I-35 for Oklahoma. Once I crossed the Oklahoma border, I called Sam Feeback several times but received no answer. Once I got to Oklahoma City, I had to decide to continue on to Texas or hope he was at home. I drove toward Texas and will see Sam at a Fest and very likely on my way to the Tuscon ANA in 2008. In NE Texas and near I-20, I stopped in Jonesville to see Mildred Flagler. Her husband, Sam, passed away just after my last visit there a couple of years ago. He was a Navy Chief in the Seebees during WWII and the Korean War. She asked me to sell his world coins and paper money, and told me a couple of stamp dealers were coming to see his stamps, covers and postcards. I continued on I-20 to Atlanta and visited one of my sisters. Then on to Loganville to visit with Murray Jackson, who used to work in Saigon during the Vietnam War. I called his wife and talked to a son-in-law. Murray was in intensive care after an emergency operation on some internal organs! After I arrived, his wife and son-in-law took me to the hospital. He was heavily sedated but he recognized my voice. I was going to research Murray's very large Viet Nam and military token collection but this will have to wait until another visit. That night I drove to my Bay House in Deltaville, Virginia, unloaded the Honda CRV, then drove to my wife's condo in McLean, Virginia. I fly out to Joe Boling's place on August 30th to assist him in packing up for his move to Indianapolis. That is all for this numismatic trip, except that I owe the nice lady at the Port Clinton Holiday Inn $100 for selling ten of her MPC Fest t-shirts with Leo May on them. I have a few left, if anyone wants one or more of them. ***************************************************** Championship Question Corner Question: What concentration camp in the Netherlands had a triangle in the design? Yesterday's Question: Where was the first Nazi concentration camp? Question 155, difficulty 2. Comments from the field: Bill Myers wrote: ========================================== Editorial ========================================== I am even farther behind than I thought! When I went to publish a Gram today, I found that I had 1499 mostly prepared, but never sent! That should mean that I will get another one out tomorrow. I have been thining about numismatics/ANA politics. I wish that it was something that never came to mind. In this case I am even party to the issue. The matter of reorganizing the ANA exhibiting categories has been receiving quite a bit of commentary in the print numismatic media and in the electronic media too. Wendel Wolka's committee (of which I was/am a member) developed a plan to somewhat reogranize the exhibit categories used at the annual convention. It is a somewhat extensive and radical revision. I do not entirely support the revisions, but that is not my point here. My point is that we (that numismatic community/ANA) should have a public comment period much like the Federal government does. I do not pretend to know the Federal policy on this, but I know that it is a good idea. In this case, I belive that President Horton and the governors were wise and more or less have a instituted a public comment period by not taking any action on the proposals (as far as I know). The public is indeed commenting and I suspect that the governors are listenting. Nonetheless, I think that such a system needs to be institutionalized in some way. That is my opinion. What is yours? ========================================= Mail Call =========================================== Dear Gram, We really need to decide on a date for the 2007 Fest. David Dear Dave, You are certainly correct. The days and weeks certainly do slip by. I have been thinking about this. I think that we should move the Fest later in March thus delinking it from CPMX. There are advantages to the link, but disadvantages too. Please, if all of you will fill the Gram in box with mail we will be able to make this descision soon. Editor ========================================== 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: Nov 26. see: www.britishnotes.co.uk or www.londonpapermoneyfair.co.uk 16-20 August ANA convention, Denver (mini Fest at IBNS meeting?) 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 2007 MPCFest: TBA Memphis 21-23 June. ANA Summer semnar Session I: June 24-29, 2007* Session II: June 30-July 6, 2007 ANA Convention, Milwaukee. ========================================== 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! Your classified advertisement for items for sale, purchase or trade will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram. This service is for everyone, most humble dealer or most advanced collector. The point is to make the gram more interesting. 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