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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1626936, member: 24274&quot;]The Bureau of Engraving and Printing designed Military Payment Certificates using a variety of images at their disposal. Designs from earlier U.S. currency, stamps, and other securities were creatively repurposed. Because MPCs were all produced lithographically, collectors are generally out of luck if they want to obtain examples of MPC vignettes in their original engraved form, unless they have the funds to purchase some expensive early notes. But there is another solution: souvenir cards. </p><p><br /></p><p>In an earlier thread Mpcusa inspired me to comb through the designs of MPC to see which ones were matched on engraved&nbsp; souvenir cards. An inventory of 90-some MPC revealed more than a dozen connections, which I will post forthwith!&nbsp; I include three from Series 701 --&nbsp; though this series was unissued, a few notes have crept into the market&nbsp; and I thought it might be interesting for those who may not have seen&nbsp; these before.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I am an avid collector of souvenir cards, I don&#039;t actively collect MPC. The notes shown here are only representatives of their various series and are not owned by me. Some are probably unattainable for all but the most persistent MPC collector. The catalog numbers used below are from the Souvenir Card Collectors Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>MPC.....Matching souvenir card(s)</p><p><br /></p><p>Series 481 $5 and $10.....B77</p><p>Series 521 $5.....B296</p><p>Series 651 5¢ - $10.....B189</p><p>Series 681 5¢ - 50¢.....B244 (front) and B36 (back)</p><p>Series 681 $10.....B246</p><p>Series 692 5¢ - 50¢.....F1973B (issued by the BEP for the 1973 Plate Printers convention)</p><p>Series 692 $1.....B47 and B270</p><p>Series 692 $10.....B131(front) and B210 (back)</p><p>Series 692 $20.....FM-13 (issued in 2005 for the BEP&#039;s Federal Managers Assn.) </p><p>Series 701 $5.....B84</p><p>Series 701 $10.....PV305 (from the BEP&#039;s series of Portrait-Vignette cards)</p><p>Series 701 $20.....B38</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is Series 481 $10 and B77. This vignette is entitled &quot;The Mechanic.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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