Question #10: The BEP and two private printers printed Food Coupons for the US Department of Agriculture. Name the other two printers. Bonus Question: For USDA Food Coupons printed after 1976 how can the printer of a Food Coupon be identified from the Coupon itself? Answer #10: American Bank Note Company and United States Bank Note Company. Bonus Answer: The printer can be identified from the letter in the date. No letter (Series 1980) was printed by the BEP, letter A (Series 1980A) indicates ABNC and letter B (Series 1980B) indicates USBC. Kudos (but no points) to those who also added Banknote Corporation of America (BCA) in your answer. While BCA also contracted to print Food Coupons none were issued. BCA coupons were identified by the letter C. After the ABNC-USBC merger, only Series B coupons were printed even though the successor company was ABNC. Everyone who answered got the main question correct. A couple passed on the bonus. c10ck3r 2 gsalexan 9 clayirving 10 wiggam007 12 TheNoost 11 Krispy 11 Duke Kavanaugh 1 Kasia 11 RonTerry 4 Conder101 1 lucyray 4 SteveInTampa 4 Question #11: During WWII one of the more monumental jobs of the BEP was the printing of US Defense and War Bonds. By the start of 1943, the BEP was cranking out a million bonds per day. That number doubled to over two million per day by September 1943. What single event accounted for the dramatic increase in production? Deadline for answering is Wednesday March 21, 2012 at 8:00pm Central. The Rules: 1. The contest will consist of a series of 20 questions about the BEP and its history. 2. One question will be posted at a time and run for five days. The closing date and time will be listed with the question. 3. Answers must be private messaged to me prior to the deadline. Answers received after the deadline will not be counted. Please do not answer on the board. 4. The correct answer will be posted when the time for answering has expired. 5. The person who answers the most questions correctly will win the first prize consisting of (1) the Durst reprint of the BEP Centennial book, (2) a CD-Rom of the Pick Catalog of World Paper Money Modern Issues and (3) a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. Second prize will be the same without the Durst reprint book. Third prize will only be a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. 6. If there is a tie at the end, the prize will go to the person who answered the first question correctly in the least amount of time. 7. I am the sole judge as to interpretation of the rules and whether an answer is correct.
