From: mpcgram-owner@mail.papermoneyworld.net on behalf of MPCgram [mpcgram@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:22 PM To: mpcgram@papermoneyworld.net Subject: MPCGram 1506 ------------------------ / MPC Gram News Letter / ----------------------- =========================================== MPC GRAM =========================================== Vol 7, no 1506 Tueday October 10, 2006 ANA Prez Has Vision ANA President Bill Horton visited the Albiquerque Coin Club show last weekend. On Thursday evening during set up he addressed club members and dealers present. He said that one of the honors of being president of the American Numismatic Association was that he gets to make various awards and that one of the best of those awards is the President's Award. This award is given to an individual who has supported the association and/or the hobby in any number of ways. One beauty of the award is that the president makes the award simply based upon his judgement although other members can make recomendations. President Horton then concluded his remarks by presenting a President's Award to Fester Warner Talso. HOUSEWARMING DEFERRED. by Joe Boling Louise's work schedule and my travel schedule conspire to make us unable to get the house ready for a party/minifest on 21 October. We are therefore deferring the event to 11 November, same hours (1600-2000). So far only one family has RSVP'd, and that was a tentative response, so I don't think many will be inconvenienced by this change in plans. Be warned - the place will still be in shambles, but at least we might have room to put some chairs out. I recently examined a set of fake Philippine JIM marked as specimens ("mihon"). These are being marketed on eBay by a seller who insists that they are proof notes from before the primary JIM production, which explains why they are not printed by the same technology as the genuine JIM. To which I say "bull." Some of the notes in the set are Rizal monument notes, which you all know are intaglio products. These replicas are lithographed, with the watermark simulated by printing a brownish-yellow image on the back in the watermark window. The serials and blocks are largely letterpress, as they should be, but the mihon markings are not - they are lithographed along with the main note image. Here is my commentary on the seller's line of bull: If "essay proof notes" were going to be printed in 1941, they would have been of the initial issue, the litho notes, not the engraved Rizal monument notes, which came later. Similarly, the 500 peso notes were MUCH later, and not even contemplated in 1941. Just because a "Japanese historical group" has ordered them, and other eBay bidders have not returned the notes, does not mean that they are good - which they are not, in my opinion. Reference Fred's delivery of an AMC franc note to representatives of the Paris mint at ANA this year - they did not even know what the notes were. Similarly, the Japanese historical group may have absolutely no idea what they are looking at. The Yokohama Specie Bank did not print the original notes [as the seller claims] - the Finance Ministry Printing Bureau did. In short, these are fantasy specimens. Beyond $20-$30 as references [more appropriately $5-$10], one would be overpaying. Ray Czahor has recently also circulated a warning about these notes. ***************************************************** Championship Question Corner Question: Question 163, difficulty 2. Who taught an ANA Summer Seminar class on world counterfeit paper money? Yesterday's Question 162, difficulty 1. Who wrote the book on Philippine guerrilla notes? Question: Kathy Myers answered Neil Shafer. ========================================== Editorial ========================================== Congratulations to Warner Talso AND Bill Horton. To Warner for receiving the ANA President's Award. Warner's contributions to the military numismatics fraternity are well known. It is not so clear to us that these contributions are as well known to the greater community which is why we believe that congratulations also go to President Horton. Well done all. ========================================= Mail Call =========================================== Dear Gram My flight to Kuwait was not uneventful. We went from El Paso, TX to a refueling stop at Kennedy airport in N.Y. & then started over the Atlantic Ocean. We hit turbulence about 1 hour out and a fight attendant was hurt so we flew back to Boston to get her to a hospital. It ended up she was OK but we spend the night in Boston. We left the next morning, one soldier short as he overslept and no one checked up on him. We then flew to Germany for a short layover and on to Kuwait. We were bused to Ali Al Salem (which I translate to ā€œspace in the desert with buildingsā€?). We then gathered up our gear & load it in a truck and get on buses to ride to Camp Buehring (an even more desolate place in the desert with buildings). We unload our gear from the truck then load it back on another truck, as they had dropped us off at the wrong place. We get to our tent and there are about 45 soldiers in it, mostly Docs. It is air conditioned. Showers are in a trailer and there are Port-a-Johns. Our training has consisted of IED Briefings, classes to teach us to use the computers that will be in the hospital, and getting up at 0300 to drive 1½ hours in the desert to fire our weapons. We just fired 5 shots at the targets & have no idea what we hit as the exercise was just to make sure the weapons worked. The whole thing took about 5½ hours. The rest of my time has been spent reading [WWII Remembered we assume--ed], going to the movies, waiting to get on a computer or DSN phone and, of course, visiting the PX and searching for POGs. The food at the DEFAC is great. Every Wed night the choices are steak, fried shrimp and King Crab legs. I do not even get that at home! At least I eat well. It looks like I will miss MPC Fest 2007 so I will have to see you in 2008. Bill Dear Bill, Thanks for the report. Forward deployed Festers should get some sort of Fest credit. This is a first so we will have to think about it. Editor Dear Esteemed Editor, Thank you for the offer of MFC Sheets for my doctors and nurses. Please make a reservation for me at the 2007 Fest and I want the same hotel room too. I will also arrive a day early and leave the day after it is over. Will you have another field trip like the last one? The Master Sergeant Daniel Dear Howard, Reservation taken. Yes, we are planning a post-Fest field trip. Details to be announced. Editor =========================================== 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 Nov 11, Boling house warming party and mini Fest (1600-2000). Nov 16-19, 2007 Pcda St Louis 2007 MPCFest: March 23-25 2007 details TBA. [Reservations received: John Cheney(T, k), Harold Kroll(T), Ski, Louise and Joe Boling (k), Warner and Jane (auxilliary)(T), Ian and Bella Marshall(T), Jim Downey(T), Howard Daniel(T,M), Bill Yanchick and Miles (T), Kathy and Dan Freeland (k,T), Sparky Watson (T), Roger Urce(T), Fred and Judy (auxiliary) Schwan(T). [Totals: festers 17, new Festers 0, Tiger lillies (auxilliary) 2, k=king room] Eternal Festers: Mike Cummings, Robert Kutcher, Leo May. Coordinating instructions. Please try to coordinate ground transportation from Cleveland, Detroit or Toledo Airports to reduce rental cars. If you cannot find a ride on your own contact adjutant and transportation officer Sparky Watson (mark.watson@edwards.af.mil). Neither Sparky nor the Fest accept any responsibility for ground transportation, but we will be happy to try to coordinate a ride for you. This MIGHT include ground transportation being sent from Fest Headquarters, but you cannot count on this and you might have to wait depending on other demands. 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! 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