Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5205.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.86]) by strange.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tfiia5.5t9.37kbi0u for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:42:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010509134227.12282.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.192.57] by web5205.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 09 May 2001 06:42:27 PDT Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 06:42:27 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 333 (corrected and expanded, read me, trash the other one) To: MPCGray@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ----------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 333 Wednesday, May 9, 2001 First Seminar Scholarship Award Announced Marcus Turner, chair of the scholarship committee, has announced that Pennsylvania collector William Yanchick is the first recipient for 2001 of a scholarship to the ANA Summer Seminar for World War II Numismatics Yanchick is a long time numismatist who was only recently smitten by the MPC bug, but he has a bad case of the contagious disease! He has built an extensive collection of MPC and other military items in the past few years. Perhaps more importantly, he has taken his show on the road promoting MPC and military money collecting. Turner reports that additional awards will be made in the next few days pending notification of the winners by telephone. He states further that donations are still needed to fill more slots in this important seminar. Furthermore, he says that scholarships remain and that applications may still by submitted (see address and other details in Departments below). Finally, Turner points out that the seminar is for anyone interested in World War II numismatics beginners through advanced collectors (and some of each have enrolled). The course will be tailored to meet the needs and desires of everyone and everyone will participate in many ways. Schwan and Boling are rumored to have some really interesting activities planned for the event, but even if they did not, the chance to interact with the two leaders in WWII numismatics for a week is an important opportunity! Disk Drive Dead, Data Survives The long wait is over. The sick disk drive that halted the work on the new MPC book and other projects has now been pronounced dead by the special drive doctors. However, all of the data was salvaged—100%--and they have been celebrating in Port Clinton! Yes, the data have been saved. The patient is being sent home on Wednesday so it will be home by Friday or Saturday. After arrival home rehabilitation will be necessary and retraining necessary too. Triangle of Sellers, Friends and Myself By Howard A. Daniel III I have been researching, writing, collecting, etc., my Southeast Asian stuff since 1964, so my collection has the vast majority of pieces I can find at the coin and/or stamp shows and stores along the East Coast of the United States. About twenty plus years ago, I noticed that I was coming across material that could be of interest to my collecting friends, so I would call them up and give them the name and telephone number of the owner(s). But I often received a call back from them that the material was already sold. So I started asking my friends for want lists and the maximum price they would pay for a piece, even if it was a duplicate because they forgot to update their want lists I carry around with me. Instead of walking around a show and not buying anything from the dealers, now I started finding things to buy. As a result, the dealers who were ignoring me started greeting me, and every once in awhile, they found something for me too. My friends with my want list also started finding things for me at their shows and shops, so it became a happier triangle of the dealer/owner, my friend and myself. My very first search for someone's collection other than mine was for Major Joseph E. Boling. Yes, at one time in ancient history, Joe was a major and I was a master sergeant. We had known each other through the mail, but I had the unfortunate "bad luck" to be stationed with him in Heidelberg, Germany during the late 1970's. I often went to his quarters to read through his library and look through the Southeast Asian and other pieces in his collection. This has continued to date and I pretty much know what he wants to buy for his collection, for research and resale, and/or just for resale. Joe also knows and buys my wants too. The "bad luck" was the many gray hairs that were made while sitting in the front passenger seat of Joe's Volkwagen van when we were going to a coin show somewhere in Europe. Joe is always sleep-deprived because he always has too many things to do than can be done in a day, so he just skips sleeping. My gray hairs first appeared on my head during our first trip when at 100 kph on an autobahn, he fell asleep! I panicked, and probably wet my pants, then yelled at him to wake up. He has rarely done this to me since Germany, and only when he has lulled me into thinking he is really awake when he is really in a vertical state of open-eyed sleep. His want list is burned into my brain from those rides, but for almost everyone else, I carry their want lists in my black bag. Before a show or a visit to a shop, I would often review them. When I came across something I remembered on a want list, I would open my bag and look it up. Once verified, I would buy the piece and mail it to my friend in a day or two. A few days later, I would usually receive a telephone call with an excited collector on the other end. It is a great feeling and I highly recommend you join those of us who are shopping for friends too. My most recent coin show was in Vienna, Virginia, this past weekend. My very first purchase was a Danbury Mint package with a first day cover and medal about General Douglas MacArthur. Every year at Memphis, a young man comes by the table I share with Len Harsel and asks if we have anything related to the general. About every other year, I hand him something as a gift, and this year it will be this package. It gives me a fantastic feeling to see his face light up with another something for his collection. Try it and I guarantee you will like creating your own personal triangles! =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- Well, we really goofed things up coming back from sickness. We sent out the partially completed Gram 333 yesterday instead of Gram 332. Obviously, this version of Gram 333 contains additional and corrected information so the old version should be tossed. I guess that it serves me right trying to get ahead. I never will learn. On another matter, we are behind in filling orders for MFC Series 011. This is because supplies of the $1 certificates are very low. An order has been placed with the chief of finance and new supplies are expected soon. We will mention here when supplies have been replenished and shipments can be resumed. Regarding the sick disk, in about a week we will be where we were a month ago! However that is a whole lot better than what it might have been. The extra side benefit is the experience in retrieving data. Hopefully, we also learned something about conserving data. =========================================== Mail Call ---------------------------------------------------- Hi Editor, Not long ago Howard wrote about So. Vietnam camp notes with the Phieu Tu Binh, etc. overprints- I have one each of the 5 and 10 dong that I obtained at the time of issue from Col. J. G. Cornett (in 1965, year of issue he said). Serial numbers are as follows: 5 dong, 140577; 10 dong, 447233. Hope this helps. Neil S. Dear Gram, How much longer might the apparent use of mpc in the '50s by the Canadian military have gone unreported were it not for the internet? Cyberspace is good. Kudos to Phil and others who work to create and maintain their own mpc websites. It's obvious that through their efforts a valuable means exists for reaching out beyond the current population of mpc enthusiasts, expanding the chances for new revelations and discoveries both great and small. Thank for your efforts! Ort =================================================== Departments --------------------------------------------------- WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Not only does the scholarship fund have an official identity but also has a bank account! Any further donations should be paid to the order of "Military Numismatists Scholarship" and sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 THE UPDATED LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS 3/22/01. These folks have generously provided money or material to finance scholarships to the ANA WWII Numismatics seminar. Your contributions will help promote collecting WWII material and be greatly appreciated. Many donations were received at CPMX and MPCFest. Mr. Anonymous Donor, Mike Cummings, Sue and Keith Bauman, Ed B., Doug Bell, Tom Denly, Continental Coin Invensor, Inc., Denly's, R. A. Medina, Harold “MPCKid” Kroll, Leo "Paymaster" May, Mrs. R.C. Matherne, Bill McNease, Mel and Jeremy Steinberg, Marcus Turner, Larry Ski, Guido, Fred, PK6, Joel Shafer, World Wide Ventures, Pam West, John and Nancy Wilson, Neil Shafer, W. E. Yanchick, Mark Watson, Al Glaser, Phil Goldstein, Rod Hardy, Wesley Hardy, Gary Hicks, Jack Lippincott, Ian Marshall, Kevin Maloy, David Seelye, Nick Schrier, Elmer Smith, Dan Swartz, Tom Warburton, Dick Freyser, Tim Kyzivat ==================================================== Post/Base Exchange (PX/BX/NEX) Dump your dupes! Your classified advertisement for items for sale 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. Send in a list of items for sale and we will list them here in the gram. In all cases confirm your order via email first. FOR SALE AMC yen for sale email, phone, or postal orders accepted, but they will be filled in the order received, with telephone orders integrated into the email orders by date/time stamp (postal orders may not be wasted postage at this point). Persons unknown to me are asked to send payment in advance. Reasonable extensions of payments will be considered (not necessarily adopted). All pieces are one of a kind (note the serial numbers); actual postage will be billed on all orders, with appropriate insurance or registration applied. Unsold lots over $125 will be sent to auction NLT 10 May; don't procrastinate. Any note not satisfying may be returned no questions asked (not after thirty days, please). For your pleasure, the sources and dates of acquisition are given; where the source is unrecorded, it means that I acquired the note before 1981, when I got my first computer. Joseph E. Boling PO Box 4718 Federal Way WA 98063-4718 253-839-5199 fax 253-839-5185 joeboling@aol.com A-yen 50 sen cream paper A07724963A AU $30 source unrecorded 1 yen white paper A02347553A Unc $50 Warmus 1987 10 yen white paper A07603448A AU+ $200 Uhl 1982 20 yen cream paper A00907857A AU $750 Schwan-Kesselman 1988 B-yen 10 sen cream paper H00063158A AU+ $375 source unrecorded 1 yen medium paper B01492974B Unc $60 source unrecorded 1 yen cream paper D01285446D Unc $30 source unrecorded 5 yen cream paper A06637755A AU $10 source unrecorded WANTED Collectors may submit lists of items wanted for their collections for listing here. Dealers and collectors who have these items are then encouraged to list them for sale in the above section. This is a trial, if you like it, send your list. =================================================== Staff: publisher and editor: Fred Schwan - fred@papermoneyworld.com; assistant editor - Phil Goldstein IWANTMYMPC@aol.com Tueseday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski cloumnist Larry “Ski” Smulczenski – ski@papermoneyworld.com critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.com; index manager: Ed Beaman webmaster & technical advisor: Doug Bell - (Wiz): doug@papermoneyworld.com; The Boss: Judy Schwan ===== MPC Gram is published by BNR Press and papermoneyworld.com as a free service to the community of military money collectors. Your suggestions, criticisms, complaints, editorial contributions, letters, and even praise are very welcome. The entire contents including linked illustrations are copyright protected by the publishers. In the case of contributors, the copyright is protected on behalf of the creators. 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