Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web12708.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.245]) by kendall.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id u6kr2b.es2.37kbi2i for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:38:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20020213133819.12641.qmail@web12708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.197.44] by web12708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:38:19 PST Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:38:19 -0800 (PST) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 554/4 To: mpcgram@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-251079521-1013607499=:11426" --0-251079521-1013607499=:11426 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics ---------------------------------------------- Series 003-Number 554, Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Munich Out, Fest in—for Cummings Well-known MPC fan, dealer, and (former?) collector Mike Cummings has canceled his planned business trip to Munich in order to attend MPCFest III! Cummings who has a shop in Lakeland, Florida says that he is looking forward to the event and will bring some goodies. Cummings reservation pushes the Fest list to the 30 threshold. Fest I had 12 in attendance, Fest II had 24, with additional reservations expected, it might still be possible to top 40 for Fest III. Watch the Gram in the next few days for more Fest details. Military Numismatics—there is no End By Bill Murray One never knows when or where one will find something of interest numismatically. An acquaintance of mine who lives in the retirement community in which I live, gave me a call the other day. He told me his next door neighbor, a retired Army doctor, Dr. Cesar A. Lopez, had an coin article in a magazine he thought might be of interest to me. When I saw the cover of the magazine, MILITARY MEDICINE, I wondered, but the lead article in the January issue of this journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly, medical papers carried the title, "Militares Medici in Nummis Repraesentati: The Heritage of Military Medicine in Coins and Medals." MG John Pearn, former Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force, prepared an interesting and well illustrated article. He states in his introductory paragraph, "Coins and commemorative medals form one prestigious repository of the history of military medicine." While the material presented may be a far cry from, MPC, it seems to fit publication in the MPCGram, which claims, "Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics." Pearn introduces his article with a general introduction to numismatics in general and especially as it contributes to historical record. Relating it to medicine, he documents references to Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health and her "Roman successor, Salus" as well as other ancient coin types. He tells us, "One classification of medical numismatics has grouped such medals and coins into several classes. In the context of medical numismatics, these can be characterized as four groups: (1) medals portraying military doctors; (2) medals highlighting the discipline of military health; (3) military medical coins; and (4) miscellaneous themes in military medicine." The rest of MG Pearn's article discusses each of those groups and provides examples in prose with selected photographs. As to be expected in an academic journal, Pearn cites meticulous references and many of those references most of which, though not all come from Australian and British sources intrigue enough to suggest future study by any interested U. S. numismatists. Interestingly, he did not cite Horatio Storrer's Medicina in Nummis. I plan to communicate with MG Pearn in a week or ten days ( I want to do a little more homework first.), and if any Grammsters would like to provide me with queries to include in my communication to the general, you may email them to me at: billmur13@aol.com. ============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------- Last night about 11pm I was driving home when I received a phone call from a contributor to the new MPC book. He pointed out that the values listed in the book for a given item was something like: 400 700 950 100 2000 3000. On the one hand, I could not believe it. This is the type of error that I hate the most, one that is internally inconsistent and obvious (can something be obvious and subtle too? If so this is an example). After months of checking by the caller and others, he believed that this error had not been found. I told him that I hoped that it had, but I was far from certain. Of course the minute that I got home, I fired up the computer to check. It had not been found, nor corrected. Drat. On the other hand, I should not have been surprised. The instant that it is too late to fix things is the most likely instant to find new corrections. In fact, it might not be too late, it might just be expensive to correct it. This is just the way that thing go in book publishing. ============================================= Mail Call ---------------------------------------------- Dear Gramsters, Well, no sooner do I write a column on irradiated mail, then I receive the 12 Feb Coin World with a front page article about two silver certificates (worth $1500) that took three months to arrive and were obviously damaged in the mail. The notes were in grading service holders and further enclosed in the vendor’s holders. The holders were badly damaged by the radiation (toned brown, partially melted, wrinkled), and there is slight damage to the notes (the shipper conjectures that the double holders saved the notes). Since we do not know what chemicals are released from these holders when they are heated/irradiated, we cannot conclude that multiple holders are going to protect notes, nor that there are not going to be further effects on the notes that become evident years down the road. Now, in reference to Mike Cummings’ article about the Atami auction, I attended that sale only once (and bought some nice material), and I do not recall taking part in any karaoke. In fact, I can only remember doing karaoke once in my life, and it was not in a numismatic setting, but in a military setting. I don’t know what Herb Cook is remembering. Joe Dear Esteemed Editor, There are two subjects in this letter to you. The first is about the item written by Joe Boling about the irradiated mail. Sometime last week I contact John Wilson, president of the ANA and requested that he take some action to have the ANA, dealers, suppliers and collectors get together and design "protection" for our "stuff" in the postal system. He immediately jumped on it and there is something in the works. If any of you have already had some irradiated "stuff", please contact John and tell him about the condition of it. This is a VERY serious problem for our "stuff" and we must create "protection" before it affects the rest of us outside the Washington DC and New York City areas. John's email address is "JohnANcyW@aol.com." Please contact him today! The second subject is about the "undeliverable mail" for the MPCGram. After checking the email address and confirming in one or more ways that it is valid, I have found that the problem is our ISPs' computer code. There is apparently a "ton" of code that is ALWAYS being modified by the software writers and not all of the ISPs are updating their copies as fast as other ISPs. As a result, the "difference" in the code rejects emails coming from ISPs that do not match. When you have a "undeliverable mail" problem, contact your ISP and send them the email that is undeliverable and request that they research the problem. Sometimes when it is not their problem, they do not contact the receiving ISP, so you will have to "cc" the receiving ISP too. This is a pain in the you know what, but with the constant updating of the software code that ISPs need to be in business, we are going to see "undeliverable mail" for good email addresses. Good luck, Howard A. Daniel III Dear Joe, Thanks for the update. If you did not karaok at your daughter’s wedding, you should have. Editor Dear Editor: You seem to be getting some respond to the FOR SALE listing. Would it be possible to move this item to under the EDITORIALS ?? This way, we do not have to keep scrolling thru the Calendar, MPC Events, Donors list, and HOT CONTACTS LISTS each gram. Thanks, ED Dear Ed, I must admit that at least one other person has made this suggestion. The bottom line is that the very reason that the "for sale" items are near the end it so that readers WILL scroll through the other items. However, we are always open to enhancements. On idea that comes to mind is to move the for sale items to various places so that readers really must look! Now, how bout sending us some listings for sale (again)! Editor Dear Editor, Joe Boling's commentary is 3 feet wide and I can't even print it out!!!!!!!!!!!!! An in depth investigation on this problem should be a new Gramster Official's new Office of Authority duties. Of course you would volunteer for it and more dust would appear under the covert coverup Clinton carpet. CRB II BNR CIA ============================================== 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, Kevin Maloy, Mike Cummings, Fred Schwan {running total 30}] [missing "old" Festers: Dan Swartz, Leo May, (did I forget someone?), come on guys, give us your reservation, * honorary] 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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 maturner@indy.rr.com 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 ==================================================== Hot Contact List Below is the BNR Press Hot Contact List. This list serves several functions. Obviously it is an outreach by the dealers listed for your business. Most of them buy and sell MPC. Others organize shows or publish periodicals. They have supported the new Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates with their advertising. They deserve your support and patronage. Secondly, this is a draft from the book that participating dealers should check for correctness. Finally, dealers who are not on it and want to can still get their ads in if they act promptly. Respond to this email or call (419) 732-6683. We are sorry if the format is a little messed up here in the Gram, we are not sure of how to fix it! Hot Contact List Dealers and resources for collectors Name/phone/fax/email Allens (614) 882-3937 (614) 882-0662 info@allens.com American Coins & Collectibles (800) 865-3562 American Numismatic Association (800) 367-9723 ana@money.org Bob Baker (713) 864-3122 Ken Barr (408) 272-3247 ken@kenbarr.com Fred Bart (810) 979-3400 Dick Balbaton (508) 699-2266 (508) 643-1154 RJBalbaton@AOL.com Keith and Suzanne Bauman (248) 262-1514 tnaksbauman@earthlink.net Joe Bissell (602) 440-0442 (602) 494-9103 BNR Press (419) 732-6683 (419) 732-6683 fredschwan@yahoo.com Remy Bourne (800) 789-7070 (763) 789-4747 Ed Carne (614) 882-3937 (614) 882-0662 info@allens.com Champion Stamp (212) 489-8130 (212) 581-8130 Cookie Jar Collectibles (301) 604-9225 cjc-pi@home.com Guido Crapanzano [39] 2-8056228 [39] 2-4459856 Currency Dealer Newsletter (310) 515-7369 David F. Cieniewicz (205) 852-7015 Currency Grading & Certification (602) 493-4758 (602) 494-9103 sales@gradedcurrency.com Cygnet Charters (419) 734-2422 Ray Czahor (301) 604-9225 cjc-pi@home.com Doric Coins & Currency (508) 699-2266 (508) 643-1154 FUN (407) 321-8747 Phil Goldstein (845) 254-MPC1 (6721) IWANTMYMPC@AOL.COM Great Lakes Bank Note Company (800) 793-0683 David Cieniewicz (256) 852-7015 Mike Cummings (863) 603-9899 (863) 603-9880 mpccoin@hotmail.com Great Lakes Bank Note Company (419) 732-6683 International Bank Note Society joeboling@aol.com Essie kashani (909) 627-3996 (909) 627-2776 kashani10@aol.com Great Lakes Bank Note Company (419) 732-6683 Lowel Horwdel (765) 583-2748 765 583-4584 horwdel@inshightbb.com Lyn Knight (800) 243-5211 Krause Publications (715) 445-2214 (715) 445-4087 bnr@krause.com Harold Kroll (251) 649-5134 HARBONS@AOL.com Leo May (305) 271-8391 LeoMayent@aol.com Ian Marshall (416) 445-0286 (416) 445-0286 iam@total.net Memphis Coin Club (901) 757-2515 MPCGram (419) 732-6683 MPCGram@Yahoo.com Bob Reed (504) 361-5684 Fred Schwan (419) 732-6683 David Seelye (585) 594-1987 (585) 594-2311 R. M. Smythe (800) 622-1880 (212) 908-4047 Military Trader (800) 334-7165 Fred Schwan (419) 732-6683 (419) 732-6683 FredSchwan@Yahoo.com Richie Self (318) 868-9077 Mel Steinberg & Son (415) 453-9750 (415) 457-4432 melsteinberg@mindspring.com Scott Winslow Associates (603) 472-7040 (603) 472-8773 scott@scottwinslow.com George Warner (307) 672-3700 Pam West [44] 0208 641 3224 [44] 0208 641 3224 pamwestbritnotes@compuserve.com 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 advertisement of material for sale (related to military money collecting) will be accepted for this section at no charge as a public service. MPC for sale: Series 461 10 Cents F-VF 6.00 Series 461 10 Cents VF 7.50 Series 461 10 Cents EF 18.00 Series 461 10 Cents A.UNC 40.00 Series 461 25 Cents EF-A.UNC 41.50 Series 461 25 Cents A.UNC 75.00 Series 461 25 Cents AU-UNC 100.00 Series 461 25 Cents bent corner UNC 100.00 Series 461 50 Cents VF 18.75 Series 461 50 Cents VF+ 37.50 Series 461 50 Cents ph EF 55.00 Series 461 50 Cents EF 80.00 Series 461 50 Cents EF-A.UNC 100.00 Series 461 50 Cents About Unc-UNC 130.00 Please confirm at coinman@rochester.rr.com Here are the notes: 471 5 Cents Gem paper but centered low B00476053B position 60 $75 521 5 Cents AU E14877736E position 12 $12 Tim Kyzivat tkyzivat@kyzivatcurrency.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 distribution manager - Brad Peacock bp22@swbell.net Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist Larry "Ski" Smulczenski – ski@prodigy.net critic: Harold Kroll – HARBONS@aol.com scholarship coordinator – Marcus Turner maturner@indy.rr.com 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. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! --0-251079521-1013607499=:11426 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

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MPC Gram

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Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics

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Series 003-Number 554, Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Munich Out, Fest in—for Cummings

Well-known MPC fan, dealer, and (former?) collector Mike Cummings has canceled his planned business trip to Munich in order to attend MPCFest III! Cummings who has a shop in Lakeland, Florida says that he is looking forward to the event and will bring some goodies.

Cummings reservation pushes the Fest list to the 30 threshold. Fest I had 12 in attendance, Fest II had 24, with additional reservations expected, it might still be possible to top 40 for Fest III. Watch the Gram in the next few days for more Fest details.

Military Numismatics—there is no End

By Bill Murray

One never knows when or where one will find something of interest numismatically. An acquaintance of mine who lives in the retirement community in which I live, gave me a call the other day. He told me his next door neighbor, a retired Army doctor, Dr. Cesar A. Lopez, had an coin article in a magazine he thought might be of interest to me.
When I saw the cover of the magazine, MILITARY MEDICINE, I wondered, but the lead article in the January issue of this journal, dedicated to publishing scholarly, medical papers carried the title, "Militares Medici in Nummis Repraesentati: The Heritage of Military Medicine in Coins and Medals." MG John Pearn, former Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force, prepared an interesting and well illustrated article. He states in his introductory paragraph, "Coins and commemorative medals form one prestigious repository of the history of military medicine."
While the material presented may be a far cry from, MPC, it seems to fit publication in the MPCGram, which claims, "Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics."
Pearn introduces his article with a general introduction to numismatics in general and especially as it contributes to historical record. Relating it to medicine, he documents references to Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health and her "Roman successor, Salus" as well as other ancient coin types. He tells us, "One classification of medical numismatics has grouped such medals and coins into several classes. In the context of medical numismatics, these can be characterized as four groups: (1) medals portraying military doctors; (2) medals highlighting the discipline of military health; (3) military medical coins; and (4) miscellaneous themes in military medicine."
The rest of MG Pearn's article discusses each of those groups and provides examples in prose with selected photographs.
As to be expected in an academic journal, Pearn cites meticulous references and many of those references most of which, though not all come from Australian and British sources intrigue enough to suggest future study by any interested U. S. numismatists. Interestingly, he did not cite Horatio Storrer's Medicina in Nummis.
I plan to communicate with MG Pearn in a week or ten days ( I want to do a little more homework first.), and if any Grammsters would like to provide me with queries to include in my communication to the general, you may email them to me at: billmur13@aol.com.

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Editorial

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Last night about 11pm I was driving home when I received a phone call from a contributor to the new MPC book. He pointed out that the values listed in the book for a given item was something like: 400 700 950 100 2000 3000. On the one hand, I could not believe it. This is the type of error that I hate the most, one that is internally inconsistent and obvious (can something be obvious and subtle too? If so this is an example). After months of checking by the caller and others, he believed that this error had not been found. I told him that I hoped that it had, but I was far from certain. Of course the minute that I got home, I fired up the computer to check. It had not been found, nor corrected. Drat.

On the other hand, I should not have been surprised. The instant that it is too late to fix things is the most likely instant to find new corrections. In fact, it might not be too late, it might just be expensive to correct it. This is just the way that thing go in book publishing.

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Mail Call

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Dear Gramsters,

Well, no sooner do I write a column on irradiated mail, then I receive the 12 Feb Coin World with a front page article about two silver certificates (worth $1500) that took three months to arrive and were obviously damaged in the mail. The notes were in grading service holders and further enclosed in the vendor’s holders. The holders were badly damaged by the radiation (toned brown, partially melted, wrinkled), and there is slight damage to the notes (the shipper conjectures that the double holders saved the notes). Since we do not know what chemicals are released from these holders when they are heated/irradiated, we cannot conclude that multiple holders are going to protect notes, nor that there are not going to be further effects on the notes that become evident years down the road. Now, in reference to Mike Cummings’ article about the Atami auction, I attended that sale only once (and bought some nice material), and I do not recall taking part in any karaoke. In fact, I can only remember doing karaoke once in my life, and it was not in a numismatic setting, but in a military setting. I don’t know what Herb Cook is remembering.

Joe

Dear Esteemed Editor,

There are two subjects in this letter to you. The first is about the item written by Joe Boling about the irradiated mail. Sometime last week I contact John Wilson, president of the ANA and requested that he take some action to have the ANA, dealers, suppliers and collectors get together and design "protection" for our "stuff" in the postal system. He immediately jumped on it and there is something in the works. If any of you have already had some irradiated "stuff", please contact John and tell him about the condition of it. This is a VERY serious problem for our "stuff" and we must create "protection" before it affects the rest of us outside the Washington DC and New York City areas. John's email address is "JohnANcyW@aol.com." Please contact him today!

The second subject is about the "undeliverable mail" for the MPCGram. After checking the email address and confirming in one or more ways that it is valid, I have found that the problem is our ISPs' computer code. There is apparently a "ton" of code that is ALWAYS being modified by the software writers and not all of the ISPs are updating their copies as fast as other ISPs. As a result, the "difference" in the code rejects emails coming from ISPs that do not match. When you have a "undeliverable mail" problem, contact your ISP and send them the email that is undeliverable and request that they research the problem. Sometimes when it is not their problem, they do not contact the receiving ISP, so you will have to "cc" the receiving ISP too. This is a pain in the you know what, but with the constant updating of the software code that ISPs need to be in business, we are going to see "undeliverable mail" for good email addresses.

Good luck,

Howard A. Daniel III

Dear Joe,

Thanks for the update. If you did not karaok at your daughter’s wedding, you should have.

Editor

Dear Editor:

You seem to be getting some respond to the FOR SALE listing. Would it be possible to move this item to under the EDITORIALS ?? This way, we do not have to keep scrolling thru the Calendar, MPC Events, Donors list, and HOT CONTACTS LISTS each gram.

Thanks,

ED

Dear Ed,

I must admit that at least one other person has made this suggestion. The bottom line is that the very reason that the "for sale" items are near the end it so that readers WILL scroll through the other items. However, we are always open to enhancements. On idea that comes to mind is to move the for sale items to various places so that readers really must look!

Now, how bout sending us some listings for sale (again)!

Editor

Dear Editor,

Joe Boling's commentary is 3 feet wide and I can't even print it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An in depth investigation on this problem should be a new Gramster Official's new Office of Authority duties. Of course you would volunteer for it and more dust would appear under the covert coverup Clinton carpet.

CRB II

BNR CIA

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Departments

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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, Kevin Maloy, Mike Cummings, Fred Schwan {running total 30}] [missing "old" Festers: Dan Swartz, Leo May, (did I forget someone?), come on guys, give us your reservation, * honorary]

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

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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 maturner@indy.rr.com

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

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Hot Contact List

Below is the BNR Press Hot Contact List. This list serves several functions. Obviously it is an outreach by the dealers listed for your business. Most of them buy and sell MPC. Others organize shows or publish periodicals. They have supported the new Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates with their advertising. They deserve your support and patronage.

Secondly, this is a draft from the book that participating dealers should check for correctness. Finally, dealers who are not on it and want to can still get their ads in if they act promptly. Respond to this email or call (419) 732-6683.

We are sorry if the format is a little messed up here in the Gram, we are not sure of how to fix it!

Hot Contact List

Dealers and resources for collectors

Name/phone/fax/email

Allens (614) 882-3937 (614) 882-0662 info@allens.com

American Coins & Collectibles (800) 865-3562

American Numismatic Association (800) 367-9723 ana@money.org

Bob Baker (713) 864-3122

Ken Barr (408) 272-3247 ken@kenbarr.com

Fred Bart (810) 979-3400

Dick Balbaton (508) 699-2266 (508) 643-1154 RJBalbaton@AOL.com

Keith and Suzanne Bauman (248) 262-1514 tnaksbauman@earthlink.net

Joe Bissell (602) 440-0442 (602) 494-9103

BNR Press (419) 732-6683 (419) 732-6683 fredschwan@yahoo.com

Remy Bourne (800) 789-7070 (763) 789-4747

Ed Carne (614) 882-3937 (614) 882-0662 info@allens.com

Champion Stamp (212) 489-8130 (212) 581-8130

Cookie Jar Collectibles (301) 604-9225 cjc-pi@home.com

Guido Crapanzano [39] 2-8056228 [39] 2-4459856

Currency Dealer Newsletter (310) 515-7369

David F. Cieniewicz (205) 852-7015

Currency Grading & Certification (602) 493-4758 (602) 494-9103 sales@gradedcurrency.com

Cygnet Charters (419) 734-2422

Ray Czahor (301) 604-9225 cjc-pi@home.com

Doric Coins & Currency (508) 699-2266 (508) 643-1154

FUN (407) 321-8747

Phil Goldstein (845) 254-MPC1 (6721) IWANTMYMPC@AOL.COM

Great Lakes Bank Note Company (800) 793-0683

David Cieniewicz (256) 852-7015

Mike Cummings (863) 603-9899 (863) 603-9880 mpccoin@hotmail.com

Great Lakes Bank Note Company (419) 732-6683

International Bank Note Society joeboling@aol.com

Essie kashani (909) 627-3996 (909) 627-2776 kashani10@aol.com

Great Lakes Bank Note Company (419) 732-6683

Lowel Horwdel (765) 583-2748 765 583-4584 horwdel@inshightbb.com

Lyn Knight (800) 243-5211

Krause Publications (715) 445-2214 (715) 445-4087 bnr@krause.com

Harold Kroll (251) 649-5134 HARBONS@AOL.com

Leo May (305) 271-8391 LeoMayent@aol.com

Ian Marshall (416) 445-0286 (416) 445-0286 iam@total.net

Memphis Coin Club (901) 757-2515

MPCGram (419) 732-6683 MPCGram@Yahoo.com

Bob Reed (504) 361-5684

Fred Schwan (419) 732-6683

David Seelye (585) 594-1987 (585) 594-2311

R. M. Smythe (800) 622-1880 (212) 908-4047

Military Trader (800) 334-7165

Fred Schwan (419) 732-6683 (419) 732-6683 FredSchwan@Yahoo.com

Richie Self (318) 868-9077

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Scott Winslow Associates (603) 472-7040 (603) 472-8773 scott@scottwinslow.com

George Warner (307) 672-3700

Pam West [44] 0208 641 3224 [44] 0208 641 3224 pamwestbritnotes@compuserve.com

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 advertisement of material for sale (related to military money collecting) will be accepted for this section at no charge as a public service.

MPC for sale:

Series 461 10 Cents F-VF 6.00

Series 461 10 Cents VF 7.50

Series 461 10 Cents EF 18.00

Series 461 10 Cents A.UNC 40.00

Series 461 25 Cents EF-A.UNC 41.50

Series 461 25 Cents A.UNC 75.00

Series 461 25 Cents AU-UNC 100.00

Series 461 25 Cents bent corner UNC 100.00

Series 461 50 Cents VF 18.75

Series 461 50 Cents VF+ 37.50

Series 461 50 Cents ph EF 55.00

Series 461 50 Cents EF 80.00

Series 461 50 Cents EF-A.UNC 100.00

Series 461 50 Cents About Unc-UNC 130.00

Please confirm at coinman@rochester.rr.com

Here are the notes: 471 5 Cents Gem paper but centered low B00476053B position 60 $75 521 5 Cents AU E14877736E position 12 $12

Tim Kyzivat tkyzivat@kyzivatcurrency.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.

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