Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5204.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.85]) by osgood.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tiltd8.3he.37kbi1v for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:59:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010616055901.26606.qmail@web5204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.213.208] by web5204.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:59:01 PDT Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 366 To: MPCGram@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 366 Friday, June 15, 2001 May Details Released Lyn Knight was the purchaser of the Leo May collection. That means that everyone will get a future chance to buy notes from the collection! Sounds like the best of all worlds. Tentative plans announced by Knight call for the collection to be sold in a major auction. The sale will be supplemented by additional military items, but additional details are not yet available. Rare A yen AMC replacement found A stunning find on the floor at Memphis was an AMC 10 yen type A replacement was found. No details have been reported on the find, but the note is a very pleaseding very fine, possible extremely fine. The dealer who found the pieces is negotiating with several potential buyers on the floor. If more details become available, they will be reported later. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- Memphis is living up to expectations and more. Lots of Gramsters and Festers here. Heck, lots of new Festers recruited. They will put us over 300 for sure. Of course will talk more about that in days to come. =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Gram, After a long hard wait of about a month and a half, I have finally received my set of Fest notes. The delay being due to a clerical error (i.e., Fred lost my address--which I am finding out happens alot with him!). Anyway, the set consists of 5 denominations: 1$ thru 20 $'s. The 1$ measures 5 1/16 by 3 inches ( were they meant to be 5 by 3? ). The others are the same at 6 6/16 by 3. All are multi-colored with photos on both the face and back. The quality of the paper could be better--it's just flimsy white stock. The notes arrived with waves, blunted corners (some) and counting folds (thanks Fred!). The 1$ has on its face a lighthouse to left and a large black one at right. On the back it has a yellow one at left and a photo of the lugs who showed up at the first MPC Fest is at right. Serial # F 00000206F. The 2$ has the earth as seen from space at left and a large green two at center. The back has Mt. Rushmore at center flanked by a black two ( spelled out ) on the left and black dollars to right. Serial # F00000203F. The 5$ has a ligh blue five to left and an eagle to right. The back has a cactus at center flanked a spelled out five to left and dollars to right-- both black. Serial # F 000000029 F. Notice that the serial# has increased from 8 digits to 9. The 10$ has on the face a butte (?) to left and a large white ten to right. The back has a blurry photo of a bear and cub at center with a black ten spelled out at left and dollars to right, also black. Serial # F 000000043F. The 20$ has a large brown twenty to left and a blurry space shuttle launching to right. There is a bison at center on the back, flanked by a back twenty spelled out at left and a black dollars at right. Serial # F 000000049 F. All of the notes have the MPC Fest 2001 logo along with "series 011" and Military Fest Certificate in blue on the face of each note. All in all, not a bad little set. Even tho they were bought at face value, they can still be used to make purchases (at face value ) from, among others, Fred Schwan (gratuitous enuf Fred?). If you're a gramster... of course you are--you're reading this!--I recommend you pick up a set. You can buy and trade with them at the next Fest! SJ Dear Gram, << "Old collectors never quit, they just find something new and start over." >> Not only that, they spend money faster than ever, because they have the proceeds of the collection they have liquidated, and are starting out in a new area so need to catch up. Joe Fred, What happened to the rest of Leo's MPC collection? I am referring to the MPC FEST I, II series 521 and 011 notes in his collection. Are they available as a collection? David David, Great question. Fest notes should be included in the Knight sale. We will try to make that happen. Editor ================================================ 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. David Amey, Mr. Anonymous Donor, Mike Cummings, Sue and Keith Bauman, Ed B., Doug Bell, Tom Denly, Continental Coin Invensor, Inc., Denly's, Howard Daniel, R. A. Medina, Harold “MPCKid” Kroll, Leo "Paymaster" May, Mrs. R.C. Matherne, Bill McNease, Marv Mericle, 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 Your items for sale will be listed in the Gram for FREE. Send your listings now. You items for sale support the gram by making it more interesting for everyone! For Sale: series 661 50 cents 5 notes in serial number order CH. UNC $90.00 postpaid insured. Series 681 50 cents 5 notes in serial number order CH.UNC $97.50 postpaid insured. coinman@rochester.rr.com 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 or sale in the above section. 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