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Series 8, no 1561 Tueday July 17, 2007

Memphis 2007 Report

by Roger Urce

Memphis is hot and sticky in July, especially at the Redbirds game, but that was outside. Inside it was cool and comfortable. The bourse this year extended back more rows than in 06 which afforded the oportunity to visit more dealers. I was able to find a number of number of German winterhelp notes, one more note to add to my Chinese puppet bank collection and a Burma issue featuring a peacock. A few less common JIM notes were also found and came home with me. This year's exhibits were highlighted by a collection of short snorters put together by Neil Shafer. The exhibit featured individual notes and notes taped together in both large and small rolls and was artistically presented with much educational information. I was also able to view a set of about a dozen Yugoslavian partisan notes in excellent condition. The M2C2 meeting was attended by about a dozen or so. There was no pay but two items were available. The first was a give-away by Harold Kroll consisting of a circulated 10 Peso Rizal momument note with "MEMPHIS" stamped on the face and the Memphis post-mark on the back.

The postmark itself this year was unique in one respect in that the date was 7-7-07 (Al Glaser's lucky day!!)> We will not have another date with all sevens until 7-7-77 which will make it during the year of FEST LXXVIII. The second note available was made up especially for the meeting and again featured a 10 Peso Rizal note. These were uncirculated and came from a complete pack of 100.

The back of the note bore the same "MEMPHIS" stamp in red while the face bore a specially made oval stamp in the style of the JAPWANCAP overstamps. The stamp reads "Issued 7 July 2007 at Memphis, TN" on the top line and the bottom two lines read "VALUED IN FMC FUNDS ONLY" and "NOT REDEEMABLE IN US DOLLARS." The notes(block #29) were serial numbered with the serial number matching the last two digits of the actual serial number of the note. This was the case with two exceptions as the original pack had no notes ending in 10 and 25 as these were apparantly damaged and were replaced with two replacements. The replacements were marked as the others and the serial numbers on these began with the number 1 followed by a space then two digits (a double replacement). The notes were offered at $5.00 each with the proceeds going to the scholarship fund. One of the two replacements was auctioned and was hammered-down at $75, the winning bid going to Al Glaser. The second replacement will be held for the auction at FEST IX. I will have copies available at the ANA in Milwaukee. For a scan of the note and information on obtaining one send an email to stjasele@optonline.net. I enjoy Memphis and the opportunity the add some notes, but the best part, as always, is the company and the chance to learn about our specialty.

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Championship Question Corner

Question 208. Difficulty 2. Who was the manager of the Frankfurt Barter store?

Previous Question Question 207. Difficulty 2. Where were 1000 yen AMC notes printed?

Answers and comments: Bill Myers from Iraq correctly answered that the 1000 yen notes were printed by the Japanese Finance Ministry printing bureau. He also said that he answered from memory because he had mailed his Remembered home in anticipation of following it shortly. We question the wisdome of be Rememberedless.

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Editorial

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I have been in Casper, Wyoming for about a week. I have managed a few numismatic adventures. Casper is an interesting city. It has but 50,000 folks, but it has about everything that you could want or expect in a much larger city. This is accomplished by unusual combinations. Go in for a root canal and pick up a pizza on the way out. Car wash and dry cleaning, no problem. I had kind of realized this situation, but it became clear when I found the only coin shop in the area. Coins, insurance AND storage units. If you buy enough coins you can insure them and rent a place to store them. I suppose that this makes sense.

The insurance/storage store had a reasonably nice selection of coins--if you like modern gold or silver.

At least the fellow did not look at me like I was crazy when I asked if he had any paper money (note that I did not ask for MPC or WWII paper money which likely would have produced the crazy look). He said that he did and produced a small envelope. It was an amazingly poor envelope. Poor in the sense of preservation. The best note in the envelope of US type notes was a good plus $10 national bank note on Lancaster (PA) National Bank (charter 333), 1902 plain back. At least the fellow did not have greatly exaggerated dreams of the value. I bought it out of desperation and courtesy.

The next adventure at least had a military numismatics outcome. A brochure for Casper listed a private WWII aviation museum at the Casper airport. I called for an appointment. Jim Good was happy to accommodate and I was in for a very pleasant afternoon.

Jim Good is champion air racer (you can find him with a google search). The hangar where he has his museum is a WWII product. The building itself was worth the trip (across town, not across country). It is full of planes, engines, a few ground vehicles, and miscellaneous displays/collections.

The rooms at the end of the hangar are a labyrinth of treasures. There must be something there for every collector, but you have to dig to find numismatic items. I found some red and blue WWII ration tokens and some ration books. I found a few nondescript notes in the corder of a case, then I found the prize. I almost missed it, but at the last moment found an antique folding fan. Not very exciting you must be thinking. The fan was made from Japanese invasion 5 peso notes! It is beautiful. I have a picture and will certainly work it into the next Remembered.

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Mail Call (send mail to MPCGram@yahoo.com) ========================================

Gramsters,

After returning from the 2007 Summer Seminar and having the best class of the entire summer seminar I want to thank all of the people who donated to the scholarship for me to attend this class.

I want to thank my class mates and the advanced class mates for all the "special attention they gave to their "special Ed" student-me.

I have started to plan for the next year's seminar and possibly the 2008 MPC Fest.

To those that bid on the YN auction lots that were outbid, I was the winning bidder on some of the items and I placed those items in the scholarship auction for 2008 so Happy Bidding!!! You have a second chance at acquiring them.

This "Special Ed" saying thanks and sgning off for now.

Respectfully

Edward Arrich ANA LM 5512

Gentlemen:

I will be giving a program at the ANA in Milwauke on US war bonds of WWII. It will be part of the IBNS Midwest Chapter meeting on Saturday August 11 at 1:00.

I would appreciate it if you could email me scans of any of the more interesting bonds you may have to be used in the presentation. I am looking for Series E, F and G bonds.

Jim Downey

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Calendar

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2007

ANA World's Fair of Money August 8-12, 2007 The 5th annual Philippine Collectors Forum(PCF) meeting will be held during the ANA World's Fair of Money August 8-12, 2007 at the Milwaukee, WI Midwest Airlines Convention Center. The PCF is on the ANA agenda to meet on Friday, August 10th, at 1:30PM for 4 hours. We plan to show David Lange's outstanding presentation he gave back in 1993 on US Coinage for the Philippines. David Provost will talk on "Laura Gardin Fraser and the 1947 MacArthur Commemoratives.

The PCF will also man a club table and need collectors to man it. If you are attending, please let me know.l This is a fun activity as you get to meet lots of collectors and hand give-aways to the young

collectors. I will have a locked case available for

displaying interesting Philippine Numismatic items.

2008

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