Military Notes

Welcome to CT lonewulf... glad you found your way to Paper Money forums here so quickly!

There's a lot of great MPC collectors/dealers on CT, but for a general run down on what MPC are, until the pros get here, check out what Wikipedia has to say about them: Military Payment Certificate

 

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They were issued to servicemen in an effort to prevent/discourage servicemen taking advantage of a favorable exchange rate while in a war zone, that's my novice definition.

And that's where I JUST got my novice definition from, Krispy, haha...

 

Ok thanks. Nice to meet you. Im not a big paper money collecter, but it's still fun to collect them. I got a '57 $1 silver certificte, $2 '63 bill, and a '69 $100 bill

 

Would love to see scans of the notes if you have them. Feel free to start a thread and show off what you have!

 

Intaglio printing was used in the design stages of MPC.

 

MPC is only a small part of the area of military paper money. It also includes:

Allied Military Currency
Japanese Invasion Money
Reichskreditkassenschein
POW notes
Internment Camp notes
Military club chits
Philippine Guerrilla Currency
US Yellow Seal notes
US Hawaii Overprints

 

What the heckavic is Reichskreditkassenschein? lol

And I am guilty of taking the term Military notes and just thinking MPC but they have the biggest following out of all those is why.

 

I have some from World War One. They are no where near as artistic as the ones above, and some of them are unit-specific. My friend's mother was going to throw them away (this was about 18 years ago when I was still a kid) and gave them to me instead.

Do you suppose they are worth anything? I've never bothered to check. They are in Colorado with my family (I've been sent to the east coast by the Army Reserves) and I'll be there next week. Perhaps I'll dig them out.

 

Just like coins...some are not worth very much at all and other can be worth over 1k.
It's all about how many are out there and the condition they are in. Just like most things.

 

Some pics would really help us evaluate what you have, you can go to photobucket.com to
Post the images on CT for free check it out

 

Hey cool, these sound pretty cool. Sounds like something that I'd be interested in collecting. Im a big military person and a coin collector, so I think I would enjoy that.

 

Reichskreditkassenschein were occupation currency used by the Germans in WWII. The notes were used from the Channel Islands to the Ukraine.

 

Is that a type of Notegeld then?
Do you have a picture of some?
THanks lettow.

 

Not notgeld but occupation currency. Here you go (photos are from Ron Wise's World Paper Money Page http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/)








The 50 mark is not to scale. It is larger than the 20 mark.

 

Great looking notes!!!

 

I actually have a couple of those I think in with my Notegeld's.
Just thought there were some of the Austrian ones.

Thanks for the info!! Those are neat looking.

 

Does anyone following this interesting thread have experience using MPC in-country? If so, would you consider sharing a 'boots on the ground' story of where and how you used your MPCs.

Just curious --- and, thanks for sharing.

 

Hey Dick,

To my knowledge Mpc,s were used only overseas, looking through the books i have it
Does not show any series 461-701 being used in the states.

 

"In-country" means in the country where military forces are stationed or actively involved in operations. If you used the phrase "in-country" to a Vietnam veteran, as an example, he would know that you meant in Vietnam.

 

lettow thanks for pointing that out just was a little confused by what he meant