Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5203.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.97]) by runyon.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tiohoq.4m1.37kbi7f for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 01:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010617055848.20732.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.205.76] by web5203.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:58:48 PDT Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:58:48 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 367 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 367 Saturday, June 16, 2001 International Bank Note Society 40th Anniversary celebration It was a spectacular event. The IBNS held a gala breakfast on Saturday morning before the bourse opened. About 180 numismatists from many countries assembled for the event. Highlights besides the food were awards presentations and a great raffle. President Crapanzano presented awards to the following Gramsters: Larry Smulczenski, Fred Schwan, Mel Steinberg, and Gram columnist Joe Boling. The awards were beautiful original medals. Boling's medal was gold (real, not plate), the others silver. I hope that I did not forget a gramster. After the awards, a large raffle disttributed more than 150 great prizes. It was wonderful and exciting and was capped with great drama. Jos Eisermans from The Netherlands and of the Masstericht show fame won the second prize, a $500 United States Federal Reserve note. The top prize was a $1000 1934 Federal Reserve Note. Joe Boling was drew all of the tickets. At the critical moment he drew his own ticket for the big prize. You can imagine the reaction of the crowd. What a hoot. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- It is very late, but we wanted to get at least something out. What happened today? Wow, I can hardly remember. The day started out with the gala event described above and continued until late. We will try to cover the M2C2 meeting tomorrow. =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Editor, I went to the LKCA (Lyn Knight Currency Auctions) auction at Long Beach He has great currency. And free food too for bidders!!!! So if you don't bid, you can always eat!! Only had two common MPC notes in the sale. Nick Dear Editor, Just a note.....I have had several occasions where during presentations, coin shows, or B.S. sessions with other MPC/AMC collectors, an important factor was pointed out. Just because a certain MPC/AMC series is available for a designated area at a specific time period, not everyone of that time and place used what was common at that time. I had a friend of my parents (retired Special Forces) served 2 times in Viet Nam (I believe with Montegards). He swore up and down that they never used MPCs in Viet Nam but were always paid in US dollars. He had used MPC in other countries at other times during his career but never saw any during his tours in Viet Nam. I showed him reference books later on showing the MPC of viet nam. He was totally shocked, but still insisted that they were paid in US dollars all the time he was there. Another case was a soldier in Italy during WWII. He stated he never saw the AMC Lire during his time in Italy. He was stationed at a port and pent his entire time there loading and unloading ships coming into port. Said they were alway paid with the old "red" two dollar bills...never in AMC Lire..... I have heard a couple of other similar situations also..... PK6 ================================================ 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. 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