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<p>[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1605035, member: 6986"]Everything you would want to know about MPC (except pricing) can be found at <a href="http://www.papermoneyworld.net" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.papermoneyworld.net" rel="nofollow">www.papermoneyworld.net</a></p><p><br /></p><p>MPC (Military Payment Certificates) and the "square" lire and mark notes referenced in post #6 are not related. Those notes are Allied Military Currency (AMC) and were used as occupation money during and immediately after the war. Some will state that MPC developed from AMC but that is completely false. </p><p><br /></p><p>Occupation currency like AMC is issued to compel the occupied country to pay the cost of the occupation. MPC was issued in an attempt to segregate the economy of the US military installation from the local economy to curtail black marketing and the negative effect the strong currency (US$) would have had on the weak currency of the other country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lettow, post: 1605035, member: 6986"]Everything you would want to know about MPC (except pricing) can be found at [url]www.papermoneyworld.net[/url] MPC (Military Payment Certificates) and the "square" lire and mark notes referenced in post #6 are not related. Those notes are Allied Military Currency (AMC) and were used as occupation money during and immediately after the war. Some will state that MPC developed from AMC but that is completely false. Occupation currency like AMC is issued to compel the occupied country to pay the cost of the occupation. MPC was issued in an attempt to segregate the economy of the US military installation from the local economy to curtail black marketing and the negative effect the strong currency (US$) would have had on the weak currency of the other country.[/QUOTE]
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