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Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
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MPC Gram
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Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics
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Series 002-Number 330           Saturday, May 5, 2001

              Armed Forces Leave Bonds

By Fred Schwan

A few Grams ago, David Seelye reported obtaining a
copy of World War II Military Currency [1978, the
first Schwan-Boling]. In response to that letter, Joe
wrote << Bob Waszilycsak is a life member of IBNS and
was one of the charter members of the DC chapter of
IBNS (now defunct). I hope the fact that a book from
his library is someplace else just means that he moved
it on when the 1995 edition came out.>>
  That small item was worthy of only a small space in
the letters column until I started to think about it
some more.
It was at the 1985 Cherry Hill Paper Money Show that I
obtained from Bob Waszilycsak the Armed Forces Leave
Bond illustrated (and listed) on page 393 of WWII
Remembered. In fact, I believe that Bob got the
aforementioned copy of the book, some cash and who
knows what else for the leave bond.
  I had never seen nor heard of one before that time.
I still have not seen another one, but I did hear of
one other piece, but I do not know what happened to
it. A fellow called the Smithsonian numismatic museum
(not the exactly correct title). He had one of the
leave bonds. The Smithsonian folks called me and I
eventually talked to the fellow. I guess he was not
pleased when I told him that it was not worth a
fortune. I never heard what happened to it.
These bonds are quite interesting. Please look at it
in the book. Apparently these items were used to pay
servicemembers for unused leave. 
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                        Editorial
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Marcus Turner told us that he expects to make the
first scholarship announcements in the next few days.
That will be exciting indeed. However, that
announcement will not be the only one. We can expect
to have more announcements, which gets to the point of
this message. We would love to see all of you at the
seminar so if there is any chance that you can attend,
see the notice below, and submit a letter of
application to Marcus!
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                       Mail Call
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Dear Gram,
  Regarding the discussion of Canadian military forces
being paid in MPC. FWIW, I was in Zweibrueken,
Germany, in 1959-62 and used U.S. money in the
Canadian AF Base facilities. I can attest that they
were using our monetary system at the time. (You could
get a great Sunday night buffet dinner in their Club
for 50 cents.) 

Keep up the good work. Tidbits like this make the Gram
exciting. 

Warner 
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                      Departments
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WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001
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  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 3/22/01.

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. 

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 and
Nancy Wilson, Neil Shafer, W. E. Yanchick, Mark
Watson, Al Glaser, Phil Goldstein, Rod Hardy, Wesley
Hardy, Gary Hicks, Jack Lippincott, Ian Marshall,
Kevin Maloy, David Seelye, Nick Schrier, Elmer Smith,
Dan Swartz, Tom Warburton, Dick Freyser, Tim Kyzivat
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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


Here is what is available from MPCFest II:
Souvenir card $25 (50 produced)
Bronze “challenge coin” $5
Copper “challenge coin” $25 (silver sold out, only one
of copper available)
In addition to the above souvenirs, the following MFC
Series 011 notes are available at face value. Note,
these are NOT souvenirs as they are still current and
spendable.
  Series 011 $1, 2, 5, 10, and 20, total face value of
one set $38. Payment can be accepted by all of the
traditional means including paypal using
fred@papermoneyworld.com. Traditional paper payments
may be sent to Fred Schwan, 132 E. Second St., Port
Clinton, Oh 43452. 

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. This is a trial, if you
like it, send your list.
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Staff: publisher and editor:
Fred Schwan - fred@papermoneyworld.com;
assistant editor - Phil Goldstein IWANTMYMPC@aol.com
Tueseday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com
Thurski cloumnist Larry “Ski” Smulczenski –
ski@papermoneyworld.com
critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.com;
index manager: Ed Beaman
webmaster & technical advisor: 
Doug Bell - (Wiz): doug@papermoneyworld.com; 
The Boss: Judy Schwan

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