Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web12702.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.239]) by walker.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tq9p9u.7s93.37kbi73 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:45:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010916174531.25934.qmail@web12702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.199.56] by web12702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:45:31 PDT Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 435/3 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 435 Sunday, September 16, 2001 first MPC multiprinting set completed!! Collector Harold Kroll has reported that he completed his collection of MPC multiple printings. This collection was only defined within the past five years and as recently as two years ago was believed to be impossible to complete. The last note added to the Kroll collection was the fourth priting Series 481 $1. This is particularly fitting because this issue was the first note recognized as a key to a multple printing collection. Kroll's own account of assembling this historic collection will appear in Monday's Gram. Modern war-related notes by Joe Boling Well, what a day today was. I had 81 emails Monday night (not having signed on Sunday because I was on a 100-mile bike ride all day, and had theater that evening), and then my 2001 file of all IBNS board correspondence was corrupted while I was working on the email Monday. By the time I fought with that for over two hours and got all the emails cleared, it was 0800 Tuesday and I was ready for some sleep, so forgot all about the column I was supposed to write. Also, by then the two planes had already hit the trade center towers, but since I was hearing about it on radio and not seeing it on TV, I thought they were small private planes and was not too concerned about the events. It was only after I got up at noon that I realized the extent of the operation that had been mounted against us. You have to give those guys credit for planning and execution; they pulled off a masterful attack. Now, how will we make an iron-clad case against the right perps and make them suffer? I've been trying to make some connection with the day's destruction and collecting military money, and can't quite get there. Certainly I have some burned notes, but I don't know the circumstances under which they were burned. I also recently read a column about the state of mail that was recovered from the Lockerbie bombing and crash, that had been soaked in jet fuel before being recovered and was significantly damaged by it. Aha - here's a connection. At a local coin club meeting the program was on Gulf War propaganda leaflets, including those using paper money designs. I saw one that is new to me, a copy of an Iraqi 20 dinar note printed in shades of brown and red (giving a purplish effect) in a very coarse half-tone, not nearly as realistic as the common 25 dinar notes that were printed just a few miles from me in Germany. The writeup with the new piece said that it was prepared early in the war, but that the local coalition nations took exception to using banknote replicas because they thought that it would set a dangerous precedent that could boomerang on them someday. So the leaflets, already printed, were stored and never used. Later, the US unilaterally decided to use the banknote theme anyway, and proceeded to print and disseminate tons of the 25 dinar replicas without asking the other coalition members' druthers. Remember that I am repeating all this from a nebulous source. Does any reader know where this information has been published? I assume in one of the Psywar Society publications, but don't know. Also, does anyone have any of the crude 20 dinar replica leaflets for sale or trade? I understand that there were three backs used, each with a different message or cartoon. I'd be happy to have just one. Back to the 25 dinar pieces: they were printed by an engineer (topo) unit in Seckenheim, near Heidelberg. The unit had a four-color press for printing maps, and it did a great job on the 25 dinar leaflets (great for color - the size is somewhat smaller than the originals). It now occurs to me that perhaps the 20 dinar pieces are so crude because they were printed by a civil affairs unit on its much less capable single color Multilith presses. It normally is CA outfits that prepare leaflets, not map makers. Which brings me to another gulf state counterfeit. I have recently acquired Iranian 5000 and 10000 rial notes (P130-131) that are not intaglio and do not have security threads or watermarks. In addition, they have the same blind embossing of the major titles that recent Iraqi notes have used. Since the UN embargo on Iraq, they have had to print notes in country (no access to established security printers). As long ago as 1992 I sent some Iraqi notes to World Coin News with a letter speculating that the embossing was used to make the notes feel intaglio, and thus mislead the citizenry about the poor actual quality of the note production. However, there was also the chance that the embossing was itself an anti-counterfeiting device, being generally unavailable to the back-alley faker. Now these Iranian notes show up with exactly he same technology, which leads me to think that the Iraqis were counterfeiting the Iranian notes during their protracted war that preceded the 100-hour war. Unfortunately for me, I paid as much for the fakes as the good notes bring. Until going to Hong Kong and having a few days to read two years of back-logged IBNS Journals and newsletters, I did not realize that these Iranian fakes had been written up in the IBNS Newsletter many moons go, and that a reasonable buy price of only a couple of dollars was cited for them. Oh well - don't get behind in your reading! Where will we next need leaflets? ============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------- Buy War Bonds. That is a cry that I never expected to hear. On the other hand I really like collecting the war/defense bonds/savings instruments of World War II. In many ways I thought that the addition of this type material was the most significant aspect of WWII Remembered. It has taken a while for collectors to embrace these items along with the paper money, but it is happening. According to just one short account that I heard on television Saturday, the secretary of the Treasury is proposing the sale of war bonds for the current war. I for one applaud this move. I think that it is a good political and economic move (as though you cared or it matters what I think along this line). More importantly from our narrow point of view, I think that it is a great numismatic move! Will they be Series E war bonds? Series EEE perhaps? Possibly multiple series as in WWII (Series E, F and G). Ski wrote several columns about WWII war bonds a few months ago. Hopefully, he will continue that series now. Heck, hopefully, he will expand that work to a book-length project (I know that he wants to do that, but he needs some encouragement!). ============================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Gram, I will be in London, England on Oct 6th and 7th. Could you share with me more info about the IBNS show that will be taking place. I would love to attend. Gary (Who has Fours) Hicks Dear Gary, Please see below. Also please go to www.ibns.it. Finally, I hope that some of the IBNS leaders will write in with a promotion on the show. I hope to be there. Marcus Turner and Larry Smulczenski and others will be there too. Editor Dear Gram; As many of you may know I am a long time MPC Collector, I am also a Veteran of Vietnam serving in country from Dec68-Feb 70 and just happen to be an airline employee. I want all to know that my family and I are safely at home. If I may be of assistance to any Gramster that is having travel problems I would like to extent to them my help. There are new procedures that must be followed. I have traveled extensively throughout the world and hope to continue to do so. Contact me at: pittbucks@worldnet.att.net . Jack Lippincott Hello Jack, I still have not bought tickets for London IBNS (see you there) and wonder if you have any tips especially regarding some cheap seats. I think that they should be available! Fred Dear Gram, Please take me off your mailing list. Thank you. name withheld ================================================ Departments ------------------------------------------------- Calendar of events for Gramsters maintained by Howard Daniel, Nancy and John Wilson and Gram staff, last updated September 7, 2001 show reports are requested on all events. Even if it was not a great show, there must be something to report. What and whom did you see? Market activity? Share your observations and thoughts with Gramsters everywhere. ---------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Donations are now being accepted for scholarships to the 2002 "Military Money" course at the 2002 ANA Summer Seminar. Inquiries and donations should be sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 Donors to 2002 Scholarship Fund Steve Feller Harold Kroll R. A. Medina Guido Crapanzano David Seelye Steve Feller Harold Kroll R. A. Medina Guido Crapanzano David Seelye Leo May Warner Talso Marv Mericle Mark Watson ==================================================== 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 Series 661 $5.00 GEM Crisp Unc $25.00 insured postpaid. Series 481 $0.25 1st printing Crisp UNC $60.00 insured postpaid. 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. This is a trial, if you like it, send your list. =================================================== Staff: publisher and editor: Fred Schwan - MPCGram@Yahoo.com; assistant editor - Phil Goldstein IWANTMYMPC@aol.com Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist Larry “Ski” Smulczenski –skifla@prodigy.net critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@AOL.com; index manager: Ed Beaman webmaster & technical advisor: Doug Bell - (Wiz): doug@papermoneyworld.net; 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. 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