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Series 003 - Number 590
Wednesday - 10 APRIL 2002
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__ 324 days to Fest IV__
FEATURED ARTICLE
Fatwa On Paper Money - Continued (from Monday)
by Dave Klinger (from an Islamic website)
Until the beginning of
the twentieth century the most popular and universal medium of exchange was gold
and silver coins. Currency was considered to be as flexible as any other
merchandise. People responding to their own particular needs demanded the coins
and also offered them, thus their market value was established daily.
Today money is represented by pieces
of paper as non-redeemable official notes whose quantity can be increased at
will. This symbolic money originated from private contracts or promises to pay
issued by goldsmiths and later by banks. The debate that divides the defenders
of gold and silver and their adversaries is not new, it has been going on for
more than three centuries.
MONEY IS A SYMBOL AND NOT A COMMODITY:
"It is the denomination of the currency of the money that men
regard in bargaining, not the quantity of silver. It is the public authority
upon the metal that makes it money" (Nicolas Barbon, 1696) "Money is a symbol of
a thing and represents it" (Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, 1748) "Money is the
symbol of all commodities" (François-Véron de Forbonnais, 1776) "All monetary
functions which are usually performed by gold and silver coins, may be performed
as effectively by a circulation of inconvertible notes having no value but that
fictitious and conventional value... they derive from law" (John Fullarton,
1848)
MONEY IS A COMMODITY AND NOT A SYMBOL:
"Silver and gold, coined or uncoined, though they are used
for a measure of all other things, are no less a commodity than oil, tobacco,
cloth or stuffs" (Josiah Child, 1689) "Money is not a mere symbol, for it is
itself wealth; it does not represent values, it is their equivalent"
(Guillaume-François Le Trosne, 1777) "Gold and silver have value as metals
before they are money. The coins which today have a merely ideal denomination
are in all nations the oldest; once upon a time they were all real, and because
they were real people reckoned with them." (Fernando Galiani, 1803) "The false
definitions of money may be divided in two main groups: those which make it more
and those which make it less, than a commodity" (Wilhelm Roscher, 1858)
as a medium of
exchange.
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EDITORIAL
There is one more and final part to the above
series on Money. It will be published on Friday after Larry Smulczenski's
article.
I'm going to try something new with this Gram: Howard Daniel
has written a few nice articles in the past, and today I have published a book
review by him. I have added a sometime section below for book reviews. I don't
expect a book review very often, so the section will only appear when there is
one. I felt the need to distinguish a book review from just a regular letter,
hence the addition of this section. Please feel free to make use of it!
Good News! Fred has agreed to let me run with the gram for now. I think
he has come to like his newly found free time.. (I think Mrs. Schwan likes it
too!) He even went as far to say, he will write a weekly article for the Gram! I
look forward to this, as it would fill in one of the unassigned weekdays for a
regularly featured article. I was even thinking of giving up my Phil Phridays so
he can have a Fred Friday. I'd probably switch to Moody Money Mondays.
More Good news: Paying heed to Bill Yanchick's suggestion, new entries
to the Catalog Correction Section will be highlighted for one day. This will
help those of us who have already started making the listed corrections, without
having to search through those already listed. The reason, I like to keep the
correction in page order for the book, (in case I haven't specified lately) is
so 4th Edition book owners just taking delivery of their books do not have to
flip back and forth making corrections. Speaking which:
new correction listed below.
Ass't Ed.
MAIL
CALL
This is Ken Kugler and while going through a Stars and
Stripes I found an interesting article about counterfeit Allied currency. I want
to copy it and send it in to MPCGram because I think it is of interest to some
of the readers.If it is to you, let me know and I will copy and send it
along.Thanks
Ken Kugler
Hi Ken, YES!!! , Ass't Ed
BOOK
REVIEW
World War II POWs & Civilian Internees in East
Asia
A book review by Howard A. Daniel III
Richard B.
Graham's "Postal History" column in the March 25, 2002 issue of Linn's Stamp
News is titled; "Rossiter Trust: British POW book, annual journal". The
major part of the column is about a book; "A Postal History
of the Prisoners
of War and Civilian Internees in East Asia during the Second World War", Volume
I, Singapore and Malaysia" by David Tett. This book was published by the
Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund of Great Britain that
often published books on
out of the mainstream topics. The book's over 400 pages are hardbound in green
cloth measuring 8.5 by 11 inches in size. Inside there are 15 chapters, 7
appendices, a bibliography and an index among hundreds of illustrations. I
am not sure how many Americans will be described in this reference but I do not
know there were many of them in that part of the world when the war started. For
those of you collecting camp financial instruments, I am sure this reference
will be an important addition to your library. It is available for $47.50
postpaid from:
P.O. Box 36006
Louisville, KY
40233-6006
After searching the Internet I found his website and it is
www.pbbooks.net and his email is leonard@pbbooks.net, but he does not have
any online payment system with PayPal or credit cards, so you will have to send
him a check or money order. But he does have a HUGE book list with many
other books from the publisher of the above book and many others with military
subjects. There is some good stuff there!!!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Stamp, Coin and Paper
Money Expo
175 tables
Westchester County Center, Bronx River Pkwy, White
Plains, NY
ANA Seminar: 29 June to 5 July
W.W. II
numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002
Session I
Session II (Sunday, 7 July
through Thursday, 11 July 2002)
general events will return
2003
CPMX 9: 20-23 February,
MPC
Fest IV: 28 Feb - 2 March, Port Clinton, OH
Fest
Registrants: Leo May$$, Tom Warburton, Guido Crapanzano, Harold Kroll, Larry
Smulczenski, Kevin Maloy, Doug Bell, Marcus Turner, Philip M. Goldstein, Jack
Lippincot, Nick Shrier, David Seelye, Joe Boling, Gary Hicks, Fred Schwan, Dick
Freyser.
Running total: 16
$$ = Paid
ANA:
19-22 March, Charlotte, NC
2004
CPMX 10:
26-29 Feb,
MPC Fest V: 5-7 March, Port Clinton, OH
2005
CPMX 11: 24-27 Feb,
MPC Fest VI: 4-6
March, Port Clinton, OH
SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS
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
or contact
Marcus at:
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Donors
to 2002 Scholarship Fund:
Dave Amey
Gail
Baker
Keith
and Sue Bauman Ort Cowles
Guido
Crapanzano
Howard
A. Daniel, III
Steve
Feller
Gary
Hicks
Ed Hoffman
Harold
Kroll
Tim
Kyzivat
R.
A. Medina
Leo May
Marv
Mericle
Mr.
691
David
Seelye
Joel Shafer
Neil Shafer
Warner
Talso
Mark
Watson
John & Nancy Wilson
Bill
Yanchick
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Collector wants All USAFFE and AUSA Free Samar notes All
125th Infantry Regiment and Markings Guerrilla notes. I am also interested in
any and all Guerilla Municipal issues.
WANTED TO BUY: Bulk quantities of
Afghanistan propaganda leaflets or related.
Looking for a Series 641
MPC, any denomination with the serial number J02283151J.
MPC CATALOG CORRECTIONS & ENHANCEMENTS
new corrections will be highlighted for one day following
their publication.
Page 18, Bottom - Users of Military Payment
Certificates
Check marks were omitted from production copies of books.
Please check off the following:
Australia:
641, 661, 681, 692
Canada:
461 through
and including 591
Korea:
641,
661, 681, 692
New Zealand: 641, 661, 681, 692
Thailand:
641, 661, 681, 692
United States: All
Page 201, Bottom Right - Very last sentence on this
page
Two serial numbers listed for the second printing of
Series 472 .50
cent notes. The first serial number listed is obviously in error as a nine
digit number: C040351392C
Correct Serial Number is: C04035139C
D Freyser (date listed 10 April 2002)
Page
207, #833/4 - Series 481 .25 4th Printing (table listing serial
number breakdowns) line 5
Start Number is incorrect. It appears as:
(start) D14784001D (end) D14784000D
Correct start
number should be: D09408001D
PK6 (date listed: 03 APRIL 2002)
Page 214, #855/r2 - Series 541 $1 Replacements,
Ending serial
number is incorrect
Correct number is F1112000
(date listed: 02
APRIL 2002)
Page 220, #884/2r - Series 641 .50
Replacements
On page 284, it is broken down into 2 printings. That's
correct, BUT, on page 220 he lists only (1) printing reported. It should "list"
both first and second printings.
Guy Araby (date
listed 04 APRIL 2002)
Page 287, Series 661 Series Summary,
25 cent note: the "list" shows "#CU as 10(7) . It should read, 8(7). As only 8
are known in CU. Just recount P.289.
Guy Araby (date
listed 08 APRIL 2002)
Page 398, Series #541 $10 on
"UNC." price is $2500, on P.214 the UNC. price is $3500. Also the rest of
the prices don't match all the way to "VG" on this issue. They should be the
same price.
Guy Araby (date listed 08 APRIL 2002)
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