Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5201.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.95]) by strange.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tb764s.gtv.37kbi0u for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:02:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20010317170118.6098.qmail@web5201.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.197.163] by web5201.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:01:18 PST Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:01:18 -0800 (PST) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 283 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 283 Saturday 17 March 2001 Amazing Double Denomination Found Collector Larry Smulczenski has reported find a double denomination MFC Series 011. The note is a $10 on $5. Ski reports that he won the note in the Fest Saturday night commemorative poker game! Furthermore, he reports that on Sunday he tried to trade the note to Marvin Mericle. The serial number on the note is 23. Mericle was looking for certificates with serial number 24 so Smulczenski thought that Mericle might accept the 23 as a substitute. Ski did not find the note until late Sunday night when he was reviewing his notes while relaxing in his motel room. He was sharing the room with Harold Kroll who also got excited over the discovery. In an exclusive interview, Paymaster May reports that there was some confusion in counting the pay for a Fester. He thinks that this double denomination note might have been the cause of the confusion. Since Series 011 was printed with three denominations to a sheet, one more double denomination was printed, but it is not known if it made it past inspection and was issued. Of course additional reports are welcome. ==================================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- Fest reports continue to come in. Thanks to everyone who has sent a report. For Festers who have not sent a report--get busy. For non Festers who have not sent a comepting story--get busy! Everyone get busy! In the next few days we hope to reinstutue the calendar feature and start a drive to invigoraate the trading post section. If you have something for sale offer it to other Gramsters for FREE! This not only helps you and the buyer, but also imporves your Gram! =================================================== Mail Call --------------------------------------------------- Dear Gram, Thanks for bird-dogging the Chief Ouray $20 note for us!!!!! I'm guessing we can work with a live-size xerox of the note while we're designing the displays and tuck the real note in at the very last minute. Ouray was one of our Colorado Utes, and there's a lot of information on him and many photos of him sitting around in state archives. If you are ever looking for an amazing source of photos, check out the Denver Public Library web site. Thousands and thousands that you can look at on your home computer just by getting into their Western history collection. Research and info gathering continues apace here. Found an interesting item over the weekend. A check from the state of Minnesota dated 1864...a $500 bounty payment that went to a farmer for killing Chief Little Crow after the Sioux Uprising of 1862. What makes it interesting is that Minnesota had chosen an Indian vignette for its checks. The Minnesota Historical Society has the original and we're getting a slide of it. I'm also trying to find out if the state's $75 scalp bounties on Indians were also paid with this Indian-bedecked check. We are looking through the ANA vignette collection to see if we can find the Indian vignette that was used on that check. We all thought it looked familiar, and we're hoping we have it stashed in one of the vaults. The numismatic connections for this check are pretty interesting. Our exhibit will deal with, among other issues, the use of bison and/or Indians as symbols representing America on numismatic materials. That Minnesota would choose an Indian vignette for its official checks and then use those checks to pay bounties on Indian lives shows the disconnect between the "Indian as symbol" as it registered in white minds and the realities of the Indians whose images were used to represent that proud, American state — a state that was created wholly from Indian lands under treaties that were not honored by America. Also, one cause of the Uprising was that the Santee Sioux were left to starve while the U.S. government dithered over whether to make their promised annuity payments with paper money or gold. This dovetails with the monetary problems brought on by the Civil War and the paper money vs. coin issue of the time. Thanks again for your help!!! Another thing. Do you and yours know anything about the Choctaw Code Talkers of WWI? There seems to be very little on them, and they were never awarded medals by the U.S. (though their commander promised them medals and though France recognized their efforts with medals, as did the Choctaw Nation — posthumously) I'm working with the Choctaw Nation and the Choctaw Code Talkers Association in Oklahoma to see if we can borrow a copy of the Choctaw Nation medal. I'm still a little fuzzy on just which French medals they received in 1989. One thing I read said France made the men Knights of the Order of Merit of France, but I'm still not sure. For more info, get into google.com and do a word search for Choctaw Code Talkers. If any of you mil itary enthusiasts out there knows anything about them, please holler. mj =================================================== Departments --------------------------------------------------- WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Not only does the scholarship fund have an official identity but also has a bank account! Any further donations should be paid to the order of "Military Numismatists Scholarship" and sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 THE UPDATED LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS 3/5/01. These folks have generously provided money or material to finance scholarships to the ANA WWII Numismatics seminar. Your contributions will help promote collecting WWII material and be greatly appreciated. Many donations were received at CPMX and MPCFest. They are being processed and will be recognized very soon. Mr. Anonymous Donor Mike Cummings Sue and Keith Bauman Ed B. Doug Bell Tom Denly, Denly's R. A. Medina Harold MPCKid Kroll Leo "Paymaster" May Mrs. R.C. Matherne Bill McNease Mel and Jeremy Steinberg Marcus Turner Larry Ski Guido Fred PK6 Joel Shafer World Wide Ventures Pam West John & Nancy Wilson Neil Shafer W. E. Yanchick ==================================================== 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. Korean Dealers Numismatic catalog for 2001 including Korean MPC coupons for the very first time. Not much to read in English, but some nice color illustrations and an historic MPC literature item. $23.95 postpaid. David Seelye. Contact coinman@rochester.rr.com. 701 FOR SALE. Yes, I have a Series 701 (second printing) available to a good home, $2750, terms available. Contact fred@papermoneyworld.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 for sale in the above section. 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