Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web12702.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.239]) by payne.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id u4jirb.mua.37kbi16 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:39:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20020119192554.67729.qmail@web12702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.12.102.31] by web12702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:25:54 PST Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 533 read me & trash #530 sent a few mins earlier To: mpcgram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1540199246-1011468354=:62185" --0-1540199246-1011468354=:62185 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Series 003-Number 533 Saturday, January 19, 2002 FUN Show by Howard A. Daniel III I arrived at the FUN Show in Orlando on Friday morning and checked into the Quality Inn. There were so few people in the hotel, they allowed me in my room at 9AM instead of 3PM. A good start. I walked to the convention center and signed in, bought five raffle tickets, and placed my sticky badge on my shirt. Last year, my ANA Life Member badge was good enough, but this year I had to wear the sticky badge too. I wish they would honor the badge every year and not just once in awhile. After I entered the bourse, I decided to start on the left side of the room. I ran into several U.S. dealers who I see at the Mid-Atantic shows, and one of them I had just seen in a Vienna, VA, coin store before driving south. My first purchase was a "Vietnam" club token for the Flamingo Club. It did not look like something from that era and I was proven right by one of the Gramsters. He said it was for a Navy club (Cunningham-IT80f) in Naples, Italy. I was going to walk back to the dealer and get my money back, but someone said Guido Crapanzano likes anything from Italy, so I am going to send it to him. At Allen Berman's table, I found several Dutch East Indies duits and Thai 1/2 Att that were VERY well struck. Even if they do not upgrade my collection, they will be very good trading material! At Enterprise Coins table, I found several plantation tokens for the island of Borneo and one Thai funeral money piece made from a cardboard-like material, painted silver and stamped to look like a Chinese coin of old. The plantation tokens will likely upgrade my collection, and the funeral money appears to be different than I already own. Good stuff! Somewhere on the bourse I found a modern Japanese 10 Yen piece with a large "X" counterstamped on each side of the coin. This will end up in Joe Boling's hands. I have no idea what it was used for, but I like counterstamped, countermarked, chopmarked, overprinted and overstamped stuff! I also found a chopped Japanese 1 Yen piece with a number "5" on it, but it will not see Joe Boling's collection. I like pieces with numbers and letters mixed in with the chops. Narit (Rocky) had it at his Mikell International table. We also went out to dinner on Friday night at our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant (Wong's) on International Drive. It was my turn to buy and we had a great meal. As I worked my way to the left side of the bourse I found a table with Fred sitting at it. What a sight to see the MPCGram editor in person! Only kidding. Larry was there too and many other Gramsters showed up over the next two days. The surprise of the show for me and others was the appearance of Ray Bows. Yes, Ray Bows. He had disappeared from my view for many years. Ray and I go back about 25+ years, so it was good to see him back on a bourse. His catalog on the Vietnam War club tokens is one of THE references that made a difference to numismatists! I bought a bunch of club tokens for Thailand from him; a Cambodian coin, two Borneo plantation tokens, and French satirical coin that was produced when they were trying to conquer North Viet Nam in the 1880's. A former Navy guy by the name of Marvin or Mericle, or both, bothered me a couple of times during the show, but he has a great wife who makes some great cookies, so I allowed him to hang around me for awhile. I hate to drop names of the rich and famous I met at this show, so I will stop with a Navy (ugh) guy. I hope to see you readers at the next FUN Show! Right? Scholarship Fund Fattens Keith and Sue Bauman have made a generous donation to the military money seminar scholarship fund. The Bauman’s are well known to MPC collectors. Keith is a collector and dealer who attends many paper money show. Sue is a paper money artist who has created several pieces based upon MPC. The most recognizable of these is the cover of the current MPC book! Their donation is important to promoting the hobby. See information below about the scholarship fund. ============================================== Editorial ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are making some progress in digging out from the mess that we created (with the help of the cyber demon). The Gram mail box is full of complaints but not too many articles or other useful editorial material so please do send in some good stuff. Now that we are back on line it will go fast! ============================================= Mail Call ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Editor, I had a great FUN considering I was not even going to get a table until Herb pressed me to. Sold quite a bit MPC and bought lots of U.S. coins etc. Turned most right at the show. It was great to meet some people eye to eye that I had only met previously on the internet. I hope to be able to make it to the Fest. Mike Cummings Dear Editor,My name is Ken Kugler and the MPC gram I got today is the first I have gotten since the 2nd of January.Was there any other reports of this or have I just been skipped?I really really missed the issues, is there any why to get them re-sent?Thanks,Ken Kugler Dear Ken, Thank you for your comments. I am glad that you like the Gram enough to miss it. It sounds like you did not actually miss any Grams, but were just the innocent victim of our cyberspace problems. Editor ================================================ 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. ---------------------------------------------------- Special "MPC" events 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, Jack Lippincot, Phil Goldstein, Warner Talso, Nick Schrier, Richard Freyser, Tom Koch, Mark Watson, Bill Yanchick, Doug Bell, Sam Feeback, Bruce Potter, Elmer Smith, Marv Mericle, Wes and Rod Hardy, Marcus Turner, Gene Ryanwood, Al Glaser, Ian Marshall, Carlson Chambliss, Ray Bows, Fred Schwan {running total 28}] [missing "old" Festers: Dan Swartz, Leo May, Kevin Maloy (did I forget someone?), come on guys, give us your reservation] Three airports are reasonably available for the Fest. In order of proximity they are: Toledo Cleveland Detroit (Metro) All three are reasonable. If you can arrive early enough AND coordinate it well ahead, every attempt will be made to pick you up at the airport to save on rental cars. Festers are encouraged to coordinate among themselves for rides. We will also run notices in the Gram and, finally, we will try to coordinate for Festers to run pickups from Fest central. June 29 to July 5 W.W.II numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002 Session I (June 29 through July 5, 2002) Session II (Sunday, July 7 through Thursday, July 11, 2002) general events will return soon --------------------------------------------------- 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 marcus@papermoneyworld.net or 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 Leo May Warner Talso Marv Mericle Mark Watson Gail Baker Joel Shafer Ed Hoffman Howard A. Daniel, III Keith and Sue Bauman ==================================================== 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. SPECIAL NOTICE We are in a mad final push to complete the fourth edition of our MPC bible! We can and will have it to the printer! The resources section is one of the major areas where work is needed. Place your advertisement now! If you ordered an ad in the past and we have not spoken about it recently, please confirm. This is your chance to get your message to thousands of collectors and dealers world wide. With an advertisement in The Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates you will receive many extras (these may change over time): listing in the Hot Contact List every month in the Bank Note Reporter, in the book itself, at papermoneyworld and probably right here in the Gram. Here is what is available: Inside back cover, one spot $1900* Last page $1700 Full page in resources section $750 Three quarter page $550 Half page $500 Quarter page $400 *full color available for this position. Monthly payment option available. Make your reservation now! FOR SALE World War II Remembered, the bible of military money collecting. $69 from the publisher. Email fred@papermoneyworld.net. 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 distribution manager - Brad Peacock bp22@swbell.net Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist Larry "Ski" Smulczenski –ski@papermoneyworld.net critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.net fact checker: Warner Talso 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. 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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                                  MPC Gram

==============================================

        Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics

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Series 003-Number 533 Saturday, January 19, 2002

                                   FUN Show

by Howard A. Daniel III

I arrived at the FUN Show in Orlando on Friday morning and checked into the Quality Inn. There were so few people in the hotel, they allowed me in my room at 9AM instead of 3PM. A good start. I walked to the convention center and signed in, bought five raffle tickets, and placed my sticky badge on my shirt. Last year, my ANA Life Member badge was good enough, but this year I had to wear the sticky badge too. I wish they would honor the badge every year and not just once in awhile.

After I entered the bourse, I decided to start on the left side of the room. I ran into several U.S. dealers who I see at the Mid-Atantic shows, and one of them I had just seen in a Vienna, VA, coin store before driving south. My first purchase was a "Vietnam" club token for the Flamingo Club. It did not look like something from that era and I was proven right by one of the Gramsters. He said it was for a Navy club (Cunningham-IT80f) in Naples, Italy.

I was going to walk back to the dealer and get my money back, but someone said Guido Crapanzano likes anything from Italy, so I am going to send it to him. At Allen Berman's table, I found several Dutch East Indies duits and Thai 1/2 Att that were VERY well struck. Even if they do not upgrade my collection, they will be very good trading material! At Enterprise Coins table, I found several plantation tokens for the island of Borneo and one Thai funeral money piece made from a cardboard-like material, painted silver and stamped to look like a Chinese coin of old. The plantation tokens will likely upgrade my collection, and the funeral money appears to be different than I already own. Good stuff! Somewhere on the bourse I found a modern Japanese 10 Yen piece with a large "X" counterstamped on each side of the coin. This will end up in Joe Boling's hands. I have no idea what it was used for, but I like counterstamped, countermarked, chopmarked, overprinted and overstamped stuff! I also found a chopped Japanese 1 Yen piece with a number "5" on it, but it will not see Joe Boling's collection. I like pieces with numbers and letters mixed in with the chops. Narit (Rocky) had it at his Mikell International table. We also went out to dinner on Friday night at our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant (Wong's) on International Drive. It was my turn to buy and we had a great meal.

As I worked my way to the left side of the bourse I found a table with Fred sitting at it. What a sight to see the MPCGram editor in person! Only kidding. Larry was there too and many other Gramsters showed up over the next two days.

The surprise of the show for me and others was the appearance of Ray Bows. Yes, Ray Bows. He had disappeared from my view for many years. Ray and I go back about 25+ years, so it was good to see him back on a bourse. His catalog on the Vietnam War club tokens is one of THE references that made a difference to numismatists! I bought a bunch of club tokens for Thailand from him; a Cambodian coin, two Borneo plantation tokens, and French satirical coin that was produced when they were trying to conquer North Viet Nam in the 1880's.

A former Navy guy by the name of Marvin or Mericle, or both, bothered me a couple of times during the show, but he has a great wife who makes some great cookies, so I allowed him to hang around me for awhile. I hate to drop names of the rich and famous I met at this show, so I will stop with a Navy (ugh) guy. I hope to see you readers at the next FUN Show! Right?

Scholarship Fund Fattens

Keith and Sue Bauman have made a generous donation to the military money seminar scholarship fund. The Bauman’s are well known to MPC collectors. Keith is a collector and dealer who attends many paper money show. Sue is a paper money artist who has created several pieces based upon MPC. The most recognizable of these is the cover of the current MPC book!

Their donation is important to promoting the hobby. See information below about the scholarship fund.

==============================================

                                  Editorial

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We are making some progress in digging out from the mess that we created (with the help of the cyber demon). The Gram mail box is full of complaints but not too many articles or other useful editorial material so please do send in some good stuff. Now that we are back on line it will go fast!

=============================================

                                Mail Call

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Editor,

I had a great FUN considering I was not even going to get a table until Herb pressed me to. Sold quite a bit MPC and bought lots of U.S. coins etc. Turned most right at the show. It was great to meet some people eye to eye that I had only met previously on the internet. I hope to be able to make it to the Fest.

Mike Cummings

Dear Editor,
My name is Ken Kugler and the MPC gram I got today is 
the first I have gotten since the 2nd of January.
Was there any other reports of this or have I just been 
skipped?
I really really missed the issues, is there any why to 
get them re-sent?
Thanks,
Ken Kugler

Dear Ken,

Thank you for your comments. I am glad that you like the Gram enough to miss it. It sounds like you did not actually miss any Grams, but were just the innocent victim of our cyberspace problems.

Editor

================================================

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.

----------------------------------------------------

Special "MPC" events

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, Jack Lippincot, Phil Goldstein, Warner Talso, Nick Schrier, Richard Freyser, Tom Koch, Mark Watson, Bill Yanchick, Doug Bell, Sam Feeback, Bruce Potter, Elmer Smith, Marv Mericle, Wes and Rod Hardy, Marcus Turner, Gene Ryanwood, Al Glaser, Ian Marshall, Carlson Chambliss, Ray Bows, Fred Schwan {running total 28}] [missing "old" Festers: Dan Swartz, Leo May, Kevin Maloy (did I forget someone?), come on guys, give us your reservation]

Three airports are reasonably available for the Fest. In order of proximity they are:

Toledo

Cleveland

Detroit (Metro)

All three are reasonable. If you can arrive early enough AND coordinate it well ahead, every attempt will be made to pick you up at the airport to save on rental cars. Festers are encouraged to coordinate among themselves for rides. We will also run notices in the Gram and, finally, we will try to coordinate for Festers to run pickups from Fest central.

June 29 to July 5

W.W.II numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar, July 2002

Session I (June 29 through July 5, 2002)

Session II (Sunday, July 7 through Thursday, July 11, 2002)

general events will return soon

---------------------------------------------------

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 marcus@papermoneyworld.net or

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

Leo May

Warner Talso

Marv Mericle

Mark Watson

Gail Baker

Joel Shafer

Ed Hoffman

Howard A. Daniel, III

Keith and Sue Bauman

====================================================

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.

SPECIAL NOTICE

We are in a mad final push to complete the fourth edition of our MPC bible! We can and will have it to the printer! The resources section is one of the major areas where work is needed. Place your advertisement now! If you ordered an ad in the past and we have not spoken about it recently, please confirm.

This is your chance to get your message to thousands of collectors and dealers world wide. With an advertisement in The Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates you will receive many extras (these may change over time): listing in the Hot Contact List every month in the Bank Note Reporter, in the book itself, at papermoneyworld and probably right here in the Gram.

Here is what is available:

Inside back cover, one spot $1900*

Last page $1700

Full page in resources section $750

Three quarter page $550

Half page $500

Quarter page $400

*full color available for this position. Monthly payment option available. Make your reservation now!

FOR SALE

World War II Remembered, the bible of military money collecting. $69 from the publisher. Email fred@papermoneyworld.net.

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

distribution manager - Brad Peacock bp22@swbell.net

Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com

Thurski columnist Larry "Ski" Smulczenski –ski@papermoneyworld.net

critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.net

fact checker: Warner Talso

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. 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. Please send all correspondence regarding the gram to MPCgram@yahoo.com. Thank you very much for your participation.


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