From: "MPCgram" To: ; Subject: MPCGram 696 Date: Friday, August 09, 2002 9:16 AM ============================================== MPC GRAM ============================================== Covering the entire World of Military Numismatics Series 003 - Number 696- Friday 9 Aug 2002 MPC Barbeque Doug Bell has announced an MPC event to be held in conjunction with the Dallas National Paper Money and Historical Artifacts Show (see calendar). The event to be known as MPC Barbeque will be at 1pm on Saturday August 24. The exact room assignment has not been made, but it will not be hard to find. The program will be informal, but surprises are possible or likely. Joel Shafer will brief the group on the sale of the Marv Mericle MPC collection by Lyn Knight auctions. Everyone is encouraged to bring a favorite item for show ‘n tell, but this is not required. Everyone should also have an appetite as Texas barbeque will be served although details on that also are not available at press time. Collectors who have Fest paybooks are reminded to bring them to the event. RSVP is not absolutely necessary, but desirable. Confirmed attendees are: Doug Bell, Harold Kroll, Sam Feeback, David Seelye, Bruce Peacock, and Joel Shafer. For questions or reservations contact Doug Bell at doug@papermoneyworld.net. ANA Report By Ray Czahor I arrived in Times Square, at the hotel Marriott Marquis, site of the annual ANA convention, about noon on Monday, the 29th of July. Before I left home, I had received through the mail an invite to the American Numismatic Society (ANS) Breakfast on Friday the 2nd of August. I had neglected to RSVP so called their headquarters. First, let me say that I had been sponsored into ANS about a year and half ago and had paid only one year dues. Given that the stories in their Journals and letters to members seemed to focus on ancients, medieval, or early American Coinage, I didn't think there to be much available in my specialty, Philippine Numismatics. But I thought it would be interesting to attend their "History of Money" exhibit at the Federal Reserve ongoing during the show and after. Back to the phone call on Monday, I couldn't find anyone to take my reservation for the breakfast, but ended up talking to Curator Robert Hoge and Librarian Francis D. Campbell. Mr. Hoge told me about a fabulous collection of some 1500+ Philippine medals plus regular issue coins in their vault. Mr. Campbell told me about hundreds of documents in their library including complete runs of PNAS Monographs and Central Bank Barilla Pamphlets in their library--for years I had been trying to locate all issues for my library. I was surprised to find Philippine Numismatic material in an unexpected location. I couldn't miss an opportunity to go to the headquarters Thursday afternoon to see what ever was available. The rest of the day I spent at the R.M. Symthe Coin and Paper Money auctions. I was successful in buying a scarce 1908 Proof Set and several lots of under US, JIM, and WWII Guerilla issues which I was very happy to win. I also reviewed the Superior ANA auction but was very disappointed in no world lots that I could find, the first time I remember an annual ANA auction having none. On Tuesday, attended the PNG day and found a few Philippine coins of interest to buy, which by itself was an accomplishment since rarely do I find anything on PNG day. The rest of the afternoon, a friend and I traveled uptown to the Stacks store where I bought a few more coins, and then to view the Heritage and Bowers and Merena auction material. Nothing really exciting in the four lots of Philippines at Heritage though I did win a group lot. At Bowers, however, they were auctioning off a bound copy of the famed 1954 Farouk Sale--it was Sol Kaplan's annotated copy and given only six Americans attended the sale, was a rarity itself. I had previously heard that the sale contained Philippine rare patterns, etc and wanted to know specifics. Well there wasn't a lot of detail and all the Philippine coins were grouped into one lot, but I learned about one pattern that I hadn't heard of. In the end I decided it would be great to have a piece of history so entered a bid against the $750 estimate for the catalogue. I don't know whether I won however. On Wednesday, first day of ANA bourse, I spent four hours on the 6th floor where most of the World and Foreign dealers were located but I only talked to about half of them. I did buy from one dealer a very scarce 1915S ten centavo in UNC and a 1909S one centavo in Red BU as well as five Philippine military tokens which are extremely hard to come by now a days. About 2PM, I found myself in front of the ANS table. I confirmed my breakfast reservation and was told the tour to the Federal Reserve was leaving momentarily. I made a quick decision and joined the tour, which was headed by Dr Michael Bates, head curator at ANS. We boarded the bus which took us down the west side highway pass the vacant space where the Trade Center towers once stood. The History of Money Exhibit was very educational, consisting of about 20 panels, and Dr Bates knew the history of every piece in the exhibit. And if you wanted to see an 1804 Silver Dollar, Brasher Doubloon, high relief Double Eagle, they were there also. I only spent another hour on the bourse 5th floor and bought some modern Philippine errors from Glenn Berger from my local town of Baltimore. Thursday Morning was uneventful and I finished touring the 6th floor without buying a thing. I then ventured on the NY subway system to go to the ANS offices at 155th and Broadway. Well I got on train #2 while I wanted #1 and ended up in East Bronx at 149th street and knew something was wrong. I went up to the surface and found I certainly didn't want to be in East Bronx, saw a police officer who directed me across the street, down the subway going back whence I came to 96st station where I crossed over to #1 train. I got off at 157th street crossed over Broadway and walked back two blocks to the ANS offices in an old large imposing concrete building at the far end though a large courtyard. I met Mr. Hogue, found out he used to be a curator at the Smithsonian, and met his assistant, Dawn Bennett who brought me tray after tray of Philippine items. These trays were only about 1/2 inch high and about the size of a normal bourse display case. Apparently they are stacked floor to ceiling in the ANS vaults which contain over 1 million items. Before this, I had seen in my 39 years of exposure to Philippines, maybe 125 medals. ANS had 20 trays worth. I only reviewed in detail ten trays and was getting worn out. They had four trays of military medals of which I reviewed three of them--many military medals I didn't even know existed and aren't even documented in "Philippine Military Medals" by Reynolds which came out in 1998. Many were in silver and gold for different ranks. I was overwhelmed. I looked at a box--not well organized of Philippine Paper Money, mostly guerilla currency. A number of guerilla issues where scarce but I had seen all but one plus an interesting WWII Sto Thomas Interment Card of which I made a xerox copy. Of the paper money under US issues, there were two RARE pieces, a 1903 10 Peso Silver Certificate (Pick 27a) in CU--never saw better than a Good before. Also a 1904 Spanish issue 5 Pesos (Pick A31) in crisp full bright color--Very Good is about what is normally seen. I advised Ms Bennett that these two notes were rare, valued certainly in high 4 figures and were just mixed in with the $1 notes. I then began with the Philippine coins, looking at two trays before it was 4:30 and the museum was closing down. My return travel plans were fixed to leave on Friday at 2PM from the hotel. However, I made a decision to return here rather than spend more time on the bourse floor. I made arrangements to come back at 9:15 the next morning and continue. I wanted to document in detail the numerous 18th century Counter Marked coins for my next input into Krause's 1800-1900 catalog. Mr Hogue wasn't to be available on Friday but Ms Bennett agreed to continue with me. Before I left, I reviewed some fantastic Spanish Philippine Isabella issues, at least 8 or 10, the finest I had seen. The 4 Peso Alphonso XII Gold piece turned out to be dated 1885, a very rare date, worth 5 figures in my estimation. I had had the 1882 date piece 6 or 8 times, it being worth $1200-$2000, but never had seen or known anyone to own an 1885. There were also UNC grades of 1913 1,5,20, and Peso Culion Leper Colony pieces rarely seen. Also of interest were, incuse hubs in copper of the 1936M Commonwealth 50 Centavo and Peso commemoratives, I had never seen or heard of before. After the excellent ANS breakfast, I returned the next morning, (catching the right subway this time!) and arrived about 9:20AM. Ms Bennett had not arrived yet so I spent time just going through the Library index cards making numerous notes on documents I wanted to review. Other than looking at two pamphlets, I ran out of time in the library as I wanted to get back to the coins. I ended up looking at three full trays. A number of the Counterstamps were fascinating but even more intriguing were the 25 faked counterstamps. I have been asked several times to authenticate Philippine counterstamps but it is very difficult since there is not much written and the photos in Philippine articles I have seen are of poor resolution. ANS will take photos of coins, obverse and reverse for about $25 per set. I may have their photographer do that on the fakes so I have a reference set for the future. The under US coin collection was not complete or in many cases not in high grade. What was disconcerting was that the coins, particularly the double sets of 1903 through 1908 proof coins were being damaged by elements since none were in protective cases and were sliding around in the trays in little boxes. I left at noon, returned to the hotel for a late checkout, one hour on the bourse floor to make final rounds, and then headed for the train station by 2PM as previously arranged. Overall, the visit to ANS was a great bonus and I ended up spending more time there than on the bourse floor but what an unexpected education I received! I didn't spend enough time to even research their WWII material but given what I found, ANS probably is worth looking into by anyone doing research for that period. The ANS people are very friendly, helpful and cooperative and support research into many aspects of numismatics. I plan to return in the near future and was pleasantly surprised by an invite by Dr Bates to return to identify and catalogue the rarer Philippine items. ANS has a web site at www.numismatics.org. Its main telephone number is 212-234-3130 and is located at Broadway and 155th Street (take Subway #1 coming from Downtown). ============================================== Editorial ============================================== What a great report by Ray Czahor, thanks Ray! I must admit that I, like, Ray have not pursued the ANS as a source for research material. It looks like that might be a mistake. I guess that I will have to find an excuse to go back to NY to have a look. It is possible that I am mistaken, but I do not think that anyone from ANS is on the Gram subscription list. If anyone out there has some good email addresses for Bob Hogue or other appropriate staff members, please send them. Fred ============================================== Mail Call ============================================== Dear Editor, I thought someone else had noticed it and notified you but I am not sure. For the last two + weeks I have been received 3 of the same MPCgram everyday. Robert Drew Dear Robert, Thanks for writing. The extra copies a re a bonus for Seminar students. If you cannot sell the extra copies, just send them back. Editor Dear Gram, We have just updated our web site inventory www.butternut.org. with the latest additions. Check it out to see if we can send you anything. Hours are 10am to 6pm Friday and Saturday, and 10am to 3pm on Sunday. It is one of the premier shows in the South. Always a great show, run by great people, so if you're in the South, be sure to attend. The following weekend, August 23, 24 and 25th, I will be at the Ohio Coin Exposition, held in the Holiday Inn/Strongsville, 15471 Royalton Road, I-71 Exit 231-A @ Rt. 82 East, Ohio Turnpike. Exit #161 South on I-71, Strongsville, (South Cleveland), Ohio. I plan on being there 1pm to 6pm on Friday, 10am to 6pm on Saturday, and 10am to 2pm on Sunday. It is always one of best shows in Ohio. I look forward to seeing you. Best regards, COL Steve & Big Jake Butternut Dear Steve, Thanks for writing. Leo May will be at the Strongsville show so everyone can count on a nice selection of military money. Possibly he will also be at the Blue Ridge show, but there is always stuff available at such shows. Editor ================================================== CALENDAR OF EVENTS ================================================ 2002 Dallas Aug 21-24 National paper money and historical artifacts show at the Sheraton Grand hotel at DFW Airport. An auction will be held Friday and Saturday nights. 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This collection includes some VERY important replacements, starting with the first one. Terms are available, please confirm availability via email fred@papermoneyworld.net. Of course the email confirmation gets the note. Nice Korean MPC coupon; 4th series .25 denomination. 600.00. email me at kochfam@gte.net Tom Koch WANTED SECTION: 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 for sale in the above section as a reply. Wanted listings will run for a period of 1 month. WANTED - Fancy Series 641 fractional notes – any condition. (5/18) WANTED - Philippine Guerrila Money (5/26) Wanted: War and other bonds issued by the US government, will purchase or trade. =================================================== MPC CATALOG CORRECTIONS & ENHANCEMENTS 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 (date listed: 02 APRIL 2002) 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. 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