Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5204.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.85]) by niles.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tjlg8e.rai.37kbi1o for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:30:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010628053052.1480.qmail@web5204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [152.163.207.206] by web5204.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:30:52 PDT Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 377 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 377 Wednesday, June 27, 2001 Series 691 $5 Carton at the IPMS M2C2 Meeting By Frank Clark Society meetings are always held on Saturday during Memphis and I attend many of the meetings. This was my second M2C2 meeting and it was very fun and informative. I strongly advise attending meetings in your specialty when they are available. Even though I collect military currency, I have other areas of interest such as national bank notes and US small size that I am more knowledgeable at. Because of this knowledge of US small size, I made an observation on the Series 691 $5 carton that was auctioned off and won by Fred Schwan. After the R.M Smythe auction on the Saturday night of the show, I caught up with Fred and relayed it to him. He suggested I send the information into the MPCGram. I find the Series 691 crate and carton that were at the meeting very historical. But what caught my eye was the label for the Series $5 carton. This was a label that was on one of the end flaps of the carton. It listed the series, the denomination, the amount of certificates in the box (4000) and the beginning and ending serial numbers. But what caught my eye was that the printing was mostly done in red ink! So what, you might say. Well, labels for "bricks" of 4000 $5 Federal Reserve notes were set up the same way and they were printed mostly in red ink, too! I speculate that if labels for other MPC boxes are found, the $1's will be blue, the $10's will be black and the $20's will be purple. This will correspond with the respective labels for "bricks" of Federal Reserve Notes. Also, wrappers for 100 notes of a certain denomination are the same color as the label for the "brick" for FRN's. This is probably true for MPC's, too. I have no idea what color the labels for the fractional MPC's were. The colors for the other FRN labels were $2 - green, $50 - dark brown and $100 - olive green. This type of label was discontinued by the BEP in the late 1980's when "bricks" were no longer banded and wrapped in kraft paper, but became shrink-wrapped in plastic and the label was printed all in black ink for all denominations. Barcoding was also added to the label to facilitate inventory and tracking. If interested more in labels, see my article in Paper Money from 1989, Volume 28, Number 140, page 52 - "Currency Label Sets Old and New". I am glad to bring this information to the gramsters. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- Well, you must be tired of reading of Joe and Fred’s computer problems. Today was a record computer day in MPCTown. My computer behaved rather well. It was the rest of the town that was down! Yes, most of the telephone lines and some of the electricity was off for most of the day. I desperately needed to do some banking. Both the main office AND branch were CLOSED all afternoon. I eventually cornered an employee coming out of the building. She told me that they had no communications and no power! I guess that I should not feel so bad with some of my computer problems! =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Editor; Are you coming out with a new edition of the MPC book and also World War II Remembered soon. I would like to buy a copy of each but if new ones are on the way I will wait until they are issued. Would appreciate a response. Anon Dear Sir, Yes, there will be a new MPC book soon. I have been harping on it in the gram quite steadily. I am surprised that you do not have both, much less either of the books. While I can understand wanting to same some money by waiting, not only do I belive that you will like the current book and want the new one too, but I can tell you that many if not most collectors like to have all of the editions of the book. It gets to be a collection of its own. No plans for WWII for awhile. Editor Dear Editor, C Springs is an easy one-day drive for us so preparations are low key. Last Monday evening was our Albuquerque Coin Club meeting. I had three gentlemen talk to me about MPC. One brought a list of his in for me to comment on (hard to do!). It is rewarding to see that I stirred up some interest with my talk. I hope it continue. A surprising number of people (to me, anyway) knew about the robbery after the Memphis show. One gentleman came prepared to pass out lists of the stolen material. We speculated on what will happen to the stolen goods because the material is so recognizable. It surprised me that the consensus was that some unscrupulous dealer will buy it. What do you think will happen to it? Regards, Warner Dear Editor, Where would you put "color trials" in your continuum? SJ ================================================ 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, Sueand 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 WideVentures, 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. 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