Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5201.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.95]) by strange.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tjvone.l40.37kbi0u for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:56:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010702025645.229.qmail@web5201.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.170.7.87] by web5201.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 01 Jul 2001 19:56:45 PDT Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 380 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 380 Sunday, July 1, 2001 Military Money Seminar Opens--Series 002 MFC Issued The first day of the military money seminar at the ANA Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs was a great success. The seminar started off with seven students plus Schwan and Boling. The morning session was dominated by pay operations. After Yanchick and Kroll trained everyone on pay protocall, students and instructors were paid in Series 002. After spending some of their pay on required books for the course, everyone studied the MFC and wild trading broke out. Some interesting discoveries were made and collections enhanced. Reports are needed from participating collectors. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- The first day of the seminar was exhausting. Heck, the day BEFORE was exhausting. I arrived more or less without difficulty, but Harold Kroll's plane into Dallas was delayed by thunderstorms. The domino effect then took over and he was about six hours late arrving in Colorado Springs. I had the unhappy task of picking him up at the air port. Unfortunately, the last two hours of delay were also at my expense. After taking an extra six hours to get Harold to Colorado, the airline decided that it needed another day to get his luggage there! Of course we got serously lost getting to the dormitory and arrived exhausted so Harold went to bed. I had another mission. Joe Boling and I had delivered a manuscript copy of the new MPC book to Kinkos for copying. Nine copies were to be made for use in class and so that the students could help with critiqus. According to plan, we arrived at Kinkos at 10pm. The good news was that the copies were finished. The bad news was that they were not correct. Out of 320 pages only one mistake had been madd, but what a mistake. The second page had not been copied onto the back of the first page so that EVERY subsequent page was in the wrong position! There was a little bit of argument about the matter, but the clerk agreed to do the job over and call us when finished. The call came at 2am so we went out again. This time the copies looked great. =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Marianne & Editor, I am surprised with every person who contacts me about my Southeast Asia in World Coin News. At first, my hat size did grow, but my wife, Len Harsel, a niece and nephew and several other people reminded me of my manners. I do not know why Southeast Asia was not published in the current issue, but it was a pretty heavy one and maybe they did not have room for me. Right now, they have two inputs from me, and in another week, I will have something about Memphis for them. In a couple of weeks, I will be on my way to Viet Nam, and I will write one or more for them as I am there too. How about you writing a little something for the Gram? Fresh material and viewpoints are always welcome in numismatics (an area for normal numismatists) and exonumia (that means everything the editor is interested in). Thank you very much for your kind letter to the editor. Howard Dear Gram, What can I say that hasn't been proclaimed ---- My personal gratification level has certainly been reached and then some!! Got to see & talk to all my compadres -- ate like a pig -- and must have walked two hundred miles. And the only things I have to show for it --- empty pockets & some beautiful notes! Memphis will always get my full attention. I'll endeavor to maintain my patience for the next 50 weeks, but it will be a monumental effort! My eternal gratitude to all persons responsible for the heroic efforts to promote and bring about the Greatest Show On Earth! And good lord willing I'll see all of you next year. R.A. Medina ================================================ 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; Netherlands Ministerie Van Oorlog 25 Gulden Pick M3. UNC US$950.00 postpaid, registered mail. coinman@rochester.rr.com New discovery found in Memphis! Unlisted in Schwan/Boling! German Occupied Poland, 1 Punkt (Point) ration note for Vodka. http://www.papermoneyworld.com/mat/vodka.jpg $15 postage paid. Payment is by cash, personal check or paypal (until I reach my monthly receiving limit). Please reserve by e-mail at marcus@papermoneyworld.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. 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 Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist 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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