Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5205.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.86]) by hazard.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tnmh4f.90e.37kb01i for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:57:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010816035701.2120.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [208.191.148.16] by web5205.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:57:01 PDT Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 417/3 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 417 Monday August 13, 2001 ANA report As chief judge, I hardly have time to go to any meetings or other convention activities that are not linked to the exhibit and judging program, so I have little to report outside those topics. Among the competitive exhibits, first place in US paper went to Marvin Mericle's MPCs–the full set of regular issues, 651 fractionals, and 691/701 sets, with a few replacements and other oddities in the last case to spice up the exhibit even more (including four consecutive replacements and a serial number 1 note). In world paper money the first place exhibit was "Currency Issued at the Siege of Mafeking," by Anthony Tumonis, containing all of Baden-Powell's notes. Second place went to "The Currency of Saddam Hussein," built by Mike Zagorin. It included a case of the Desert Storm propaganda leaflets, both currency-based and those without a currency design. There were other military or military-related exhibits. In the military medals and badges class, an excellent exhibit of US Merchant Marine medals and decorations by David G Provost took first place. In world coins, an exhibit of coins of Weimar Germany, by Gerald Grzenda, did not place, but had much interesting information about the early days of the Nazi party. The first place exhibit in the Latin America class, entered by Emilio Ortiz of Puerto Rico, was of Cuban revolutionary coins of the 1897-98 period. Best in show was won by Thos. Law (for the fifth time) with his luscious English gold (shown on green backgrounds this time). He has told several people that this is his last year of exhibiting. The banquet Saturday night was graced by copies of Gene Hessler's US paper catalog for every attendee, generously donated by Gene Hessler and BNR Press. While at the convention, ANA librarian Nancy Green gave me a Xerox of the front page of the Wall Street Journal dated Monday August 6. Right there at top center of the paper for the whole world to see is an article (continued on page 6) titled "Army Calling Cards: Good Job, Soldier, Here's My Coin." It's about challenge coins, although the article says nothing about that use for them. Rather, it stresses the way that coins substitute for more traditional awards and decorations. Some interesting tidbits: Clinton accumulated over 500 of them and is having them included in his official White House portrait; some posts have restricted their purchase with federal funds to colonels and generals, leaving the lower-ranking officers to buy them out of pocket or with funds raised by unit functions like car washes; civilian firms (mostly defense industries) have bought hundreds of them to distribute to coin-hungry soldiers; Defense Secretary Rumsfeld bought his own and is very stingy with them. One interesting statement is that "they are typically about twice the size of a silver dollar." I did a double take at that, until I realized that this writer (Greg Jaffe) doesn't know how large a SILVER dollar is; he's talking about a Susie B! (and even then he's overstating the size of the challenge coins). The article is mistitled; of the three coins shown on page 6, only one is Army. The other two are Navy and Secret Service! Nancy's research librarian, Jane Colvard, delights in producing hers in response to or to initiate a challenge; she took it to the convention and she and I each had to produce ours once for the other (I got her at the banquet, when she left hers at her table in her purse). I saw summer seminar festers Bill Yanchik, Harold Kroll, and Adna Wilde at the convention, but I didn't see much MPC (there might have been more pieces in Marv's exhibit than were on the floor). I bought many interesting counterfeits at this show, but they will have to wait for a future column. ============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------- Congratulations to Marv Mericle on his fist place award. I had hoped to claim the world title for him for getting best of show, but that will have to wait it appears. The experiment using a "designated mailer" seems to have worked, but with some growing pains. Number 415 went out perfectly, but we had a commo problem between HQ here and the mail room, so 416 did not go out till late. ============================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Editor, Thought I would relate one short story of help I received at the ANA Convention. I was talking to Larry S. and Howard D. about the Gram and said I was going to suggest that you only run the Schedule of Events once per week, since each time I printed one of the articles that I wanted to save I printed 8 or 9 pages, each time getting the same copy of the Events. Larry said "just tell the stupid computer to only print the first one or two pages", or did he say "look stupid, just tell the computer to print one or two pages"? Which ever, it sure saves my paper. Don't know if anyone else is this computer illiterate or not. Also, the ANA convention was great. Take Care, Ron Dear Gramsters: Just to bring you all up to speed on conventions. We will be going to St. Louis, MO in 2008. Both Chicago and St. Louis, MO made presentations for that year. Thanks for your support for my candidacy for ANA President. John Wilson ================================================ Departments --------------------------------------------------- Calendar of events for Gramsters maintained by Howard Daniel, John Wilson and Gram staff ---------------------------------------------------- August 7-12, 2001, ANA Convention at the Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, GA The Fourth Annual Paper Money & Historical Artifacts Show. Sheraton Grand hotel at Dallas/ Ft. Worth Airport. 4440 W. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving Texas 75063. August 16-19 2001. More than 75 dealers. Lyn Knight's 40th Anniversary sale August 18, 2001. AUGUST 16-19. 2001, 41st Missouri Numismatic Society Coin Festival, Hilton St. Louis Airport St. Louis, MO August 17-19, 2001, Ohio Coin Expo, Cleveland, OH, 125 tables, August 23-26, 2001, CSNS Fall Convention hosted by the MSNS in Dearborn, MI Auction by NTL/Scotsman Coins, Hyatt Regency Dearborn August 23-25, 2001, New England Coin Expo, Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA, 130 tables August 25-26, 2001, Golden State Coin Show, CSNS 109th Convention & NASC Masonic Temple Arcadia, CA August 31-Sept. 1-2, 2001, Ohio State Coin Show, Columbus Ohio Host CNS/COINS, Marriott North September 6 - 9, 2001, Illinois Numismatic Association (ILNA) Fall Show Countryside Illinois, Chicago Countryside Banquet hall Dealer Setup Thursday 4-8 P.M., Exhibits September 13 - 16, 2001, Strasburg Currency and Stock & Bond Show, Lancaster Host Hotel, Lancaster, PA.,100 Booths, Exhibits and Educational Programs, Auction by: R. M. Smythe & Co., Inc., Contact Kevin Foley (414) 421-3498 September 13-15, 2001, Milwaukee Numismatic Society 67th Annual Show Four Points Hotel, Milwaukee, WI 115 tables, Exhibits September 15 - 16, 2001, Red Rose Coin Club 43rd Annual Fall Show, Lancaster, PA., Exhibits September 21 - 23, 2001, Paul Padget's 18th Annual Greater Cincinnati Numismatic Exposition, Sharonville Convention Center, Small Auction by Paul Padget and major paper money auction by Currency Auctions of America Contact Paul Padget at (513) 821-2143 September 21 - 23, 2001, Virginia Numismatic Association, 43rd Annual Coin Show, Northern Virginia Community College Ernst Center, Annandale, VA September 21 - 23, 2001, Bick International Expos (www.bick.net) River Palms Hotel Casino, Glendale, CA September 27 - 30, 2001, North East Ohio Coin Club, 41st Annual Show, 100 Tables, Holiday Inn, Route 82 At I-71, Strongville, OH October 4 - 7, 2001, long Beach Coin and Collectible Expo Long Beach California Convention Center, 400 booths, Educational Programs, Auctions by Heritage and Ponterio World Paper Money Fair, run by London Chapter of IBNS October 6/7, 2001 Spink Auction October 5, 2001 Phillips Auction October 4, 2001 West London Paper Money Fairs are: July 15/September 2/November 18, 2001 Important 2002 events FUN, Orlando, 10-13 Jan, 2002 ANA spring show, Jacksonville, FL, 7-9 March 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEADLINE 11 FEB 2002. [Joe Boling, John and Nancy Wilson confirmed in attendance] CPMX, Chicago Feb 28- Mar 3, 2002, Lyn Knight auction of Leo May collection March 2002 8-10 MPCFest III [reservations in order received: Guido Crapanzano, Harold Kroll, Larry Smulczenski, Gary “Got any fours” Hicks, Tom Warburton, David Seelye, Phil Goldstein, Fred Schwan {running total 8}] ANA Annual Conventin EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEAD LINE 3 JUN 2002. W.W.II numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002 -Session I (Sunday June 30 through Thursday, July 4, 2002) -Session II (Sunday, July 7 through Thursday, July 11) ANA summer show, New York City, 30 July 4 - August 2002. EXHIBIT APPLICATION DEAD LINE 3 JUN 2002. The ANA convention schedule is as follows:  2001 - Atlanta, Georgia (August 8-12)  * 2002 - Jacksonville, Florida (March 7-9)  * 2002 - New York City, New York (July 31 - August 4) * 2003 - Charlotte, North Carolina (March)  * 2003 - Baltimore, Maryland (July)  * 2004 - Portland, Oregon (March)  * 2004 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (date to be announced)  * 2005 - Kansas City, Missouri (March)  * 2005 - California (city and date to be announced)  * 2006 - Denver, Colorado (date to be announced)  * 2007 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin (date to be announced)  These are the proposed convention sites and are subject to change by the Board of Governors. --------------------------------------------------- Donations are now being accepted for scholarships to the 2002 "Military Money" course at the 2002 ANA Summer Seminar. 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