My 1st MPC Notes

An early Christmas gift to myself. They are not in perfect shape but I am happy to add them to the collection. Still need to pick up the 25 cent to complete the fractional set and then I will have to slowly work on the larger denomination notes.

Feedback welcome! ~ Darryl

 

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Nice notes. Guess I should have brought some home with me. :smile

 

Thanks

There are probably many vets that would say the same thing! I am sure you were more focused at the time on just coming home.

 

LOL Yea guess I had other things on my mind. I do have a couple of stray MPC notes from 1970 around somewhere but I sure couldn't go right to them now.

 

My first MPC's were some of the first pieces of paper money in my collection. The curious feature of the notes my father gave me when I was a kid along with a pile of Vietnamese notes was that the MPCs had been withdrawn four or five years before but he had kept them all along apparently as mementos as they were Series 661s and when he came back from his last tour in 1973, they were using Series 692s. I remember asking him about them several years ago and he was out on a recon assignment on C-Day and never exchanged those notes he had.

 

WTG Darryl...
Very nice Xmas present to yourself...
I have nary a MPC, but find them beautiful. A fitting first set based on your Service in the Submarine Division of the US Navy.

Regards,

RickieB

 

Awesome notes. I just love the back with the astronaut (which is clearly supposed to be Ed White during his Gemini-IV spacewalk). I think I need to put together a set of these if for nothing else because it links my love of currency to my lifelong love/dream of spaceflight.

Do any of you MPC guys know how many different notes featured a spaceflight theme of some kind like this?

 

Very nice MPCs,good start! I just started myself. Many are affordable in high grades, nows a good time to start a nice collection .I'm trying to get my wife intrested in MPcs so ,she is a quilter/knitter & sews al the time I'll put this in her Christmas stocking.

 

Some of the issues, like the Series 641 used in Vietnam are very easy to assemble uncirculated type sets of. Others like the Series 651's are common in the large denominations but practically ridiculous for the fractionals which were not officially released. Series 661 is easy up to the $5 denomination, but the $10 is a killer on the budget but the $20 is easy.

Right now I am seriously looking for a Series 691 $5, not released for circulation but released in small numbers to collectors in 1999.

http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/usampc.html

 

Great notes Darryl, still to get my 1st never mind that many LOL

 

Thanks guys! Two of them I picked up fou about $4 each and the thirf cost a little more so I felt like it was a pretty good deal for the condition. It was a last moment find and buy on eBay so I really don't know if it was a gaad buy or not. I do not remember seeing any space related theams on any of the other notes.?. They are pretty neat though. Mine have the colored paper disks that act as a security measure. A good site to read before buying any is:

http://www.papermoneyworld.net/usmpc/mpc_central/development/script.htm

 

There were only a couple of issues that strayed away from the plain decour on the earliest, then the feminine vignettes on the Series 521 - Series 661 issues, notably the Series 681 and the unused Series 701 notes. The Series 701 notes had historical figures, Thomas Edison, Robert Fulton etc. Only something like 100 sets of the Series 701 notes were released to collectors.

 

Hi Darryl,

I would like to invite you to our group "MPC Talk" we have an ever growing
Gallery of pictures of all kinds of military payment, Here,s a couple of my
High grade examples

 

Do a lot of MPCs have the spaceflight theme like the notes the OP posted...or is it just those?

 

No just a few have that. It seems like they keep to one conflict a theme.
A complete set is 104 of them and it is easy to get most but there are a few $5, $10's and $20's that get tough.

I personally started a consecutive set (crazy I know) and have all the nickels done and most of the dimes. Some of the highers ones are gonna kill me if I ever try to finish but it's not a set I plan on finishing tomorrow


Here is a repro set that shows all the fronts for you if you want to look but the backs are cool too.
Swan has a nice book on MPC's if you want to read up on them.

 

Forgot the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/United-States--...214?IMSfp=TL091214071005r27530#ht_14578wt_909

 

So, I don't completely understand what you are saying. So, typically a specific conflict will have all it's MPCs with the similar theme. So, basically...one conflict had notes with the spaceflight theme on it. Now, was there 104 notes issued in that conflict or was there 104 notes issued with this theme? Also, do all the notes with a particular theme have the same design (in this case, an image of Ed White during his 1965 spacewalk)?