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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:09:44 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: MPCGram 332
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                    MPC Gram
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Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics
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Series 002-Number 332       Tuesday, May 8, 2001

            Miscellaneous observations

By Joe Boling

    Well, I obviously priced the 1000 yen AMC notes
too low--I could have sold all five of them four
times! 
    Within three hours of the gram's publication I had
orders for $11,500 worth of notes (but I could not
sell that much--some of the orders were duplicated).
At this time, a week later, eight notes remain unsold
(four A-yen and four B-yen). They are re-offered in
the "dump your dupes" section today.
    This past weekend was the Pacific NW Numismatic
Assn annual show, back in the Seattle area for the
first time since 1994. As treasurer of the society, I
also served as treasurer of the show committee. Friday
I deposited a huge stack of notes from the till, and
did not have time to go through them. Today I
deposited Saturday's and Sunday's take; I thought you
might be interested in the following observations,
even though they do not pertain to a military issue.
    Of 118 $1 notes, there were no web notes and no
star notes. 
    Of 32 $5 notes, only four were series 1999 (the
new design). There were no star notes, and the average
grade of the $5 bills was considerably lower that the
grade of the $1 bills. They are obviously not being
replaced as early in their wear cycle as the dollar
notes are.
    Of only eight $10 notes, there were two series
1999, and no star notes.
    Of twenty-seven $20 notes, 26 were series 1996
(the new design) (the one stray was ancient-- series
1963); it is apparent that the $20 notes have been
completely exchanged for the new design. There was one
star note. Among the twenties, there were almost no
turned corners, whereas the $1 and $5 notes were much
more roughly handled, with many turned corners,
crumpled edges, and so forth. 
    It was nice meeting some of you by email in
response to my AMC yen offer last week. Maybe some of
you will attend the ANA seminar next month (yes, Fred,
it's next month). 
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                        Editorial
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I sure am sorry to have left you gramless yesterday!
This time I had a really good excuse. I was
incapacitated by illness. I cannot even remember the
name of the condition, but it was terrible. On the
other hand I am MUCH better today, thank you for
asking! In the one and half business days that I was
laid up, I have accumulated 30 phone messages and far
more that in email messages! Ouch. I will be
struggling with all of this work in the next few days
as well as working on the Gram and other projects!
Have a nice day.
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                       Mail Call
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Hi Fred, 
I just purchased an XF 10 Sen "A" note on eBay. There
was also another auction at the same time with a
similar note that was consecutively numbered to my
note and won by another person (he bid on both but I
outbid him on one note). I did not want both notes.
This person wrote me after the auction twic

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