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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Honolulu Dick, post: 981138, member: 24745&quot;]Your rare box finds are absolutely magnificent.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While the $10 note is beautiful, the $5 is stunning [design and use of colors].</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m truly happy for you.&nbsp; Thanks for sharing.&nbsp; Good on you!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, another fun MPC story for the record.&nbsp; Taken from: answers.yahoo.com.&nbsp; Someone asked if Monopoly money was used in Vietnam before MPC was issued.&nbsp; One answer affirmed that soldiers from either the 39th or 69th Army Signal Corps unit, stationed at the Tan Son Nhut airbase, collected the money from all their Monopoly games and went on a wild spending spree in Saigon.&nbsp; The word was out, so everyone knew that military script was about to be issued, but not exactly when.&nbsp; As a result, the Vietnamese thought it was the real deal and happily [for the moment] accepted the game money.&nbsp; Leave it to the American GI ---&nbsp; If there is a will, they will innovate a way.&nbsp; An incident of this nature would have had to occure early in the war or at about the time of the start of the US troop build-up.&nbsp; The use of military script in the Nam began with Series 641, issued on 31AUG65.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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