Billy: As I pointed out in the CU discussion on these notes that you posted, the Egyptian note is not a WWII issue. Although there is a...
Australian paper money is printed by Note Printing Australia. http://www.noteprinting.com/ You may want to post on the coin side about their...
I think you will find that this note is lithographed, not engraved.
There are also a fair number that come from Indiana, mostly from Fort Wayne. Joe Boling lives in Indianapolis now.
People come from all around the country. The largest contingent comes from Wisconsin. There are people there from California, Arizona,...
Since you asked . . . Events start on Thursday night with dinner which is a small buffet. It is nothing special but it is the first...
They are the modern equivalents of chopmarks. They are put on by merchants, usually in larger cities or outside the US, when they have verified...
I would put authors, scientists, artists, musicians (who wouldn't want to see Hendrix on a note?) and other noteworthy Americans on the face. The...
The MPCFest is held in Port Clinton, OH because that is where Fred Schwan lives. There had been talk of moving it to Florida at one point but...
Nice pics on the website. Not to be picky, but Obverse and Reverse are coin terms. Face and Back are the terms used for paper money.
I have been to the last 6 MPCFests and will be there again in April 2010. It is unlike any other numismatic gathering. The things you learn, the...
Fred expects the new MPC catalog to be out by next April.
I will see Fred Schwan tomorrow in Milwaukee. I will ask him when the new MPC catalog is coming out.
Yes and no. WW2R was published in 1995. The latest MPC catalog is 2004(?). There is significantly more information in the MPC catalog than in WW2R.
I am not going to challenge your decision to TPG your notes but I am curious about the fakes you mentioned. I have also been in the MPC arena...
It is possible. If the dinar recovers to its pre-war level. If they do not have a conversion to a new currency that requires you to travel...
What he did not tell you is that I had received it in change recently. With limited exceptions, I don't collect US notes and I just paid it forward.
They are called planchets and have been used as a security device for many years similar to the silk threads that are also evident in the Ecuador...
I have three TPG MPC notes in my collection. They were all obtained through auctions in the holders. I was unable to attend the auctions and...
I don't know about SMPC but ANA has three copies. An 1884, and 1888 and a reprint from 1978.
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