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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 799024, member: 6986&quot;]Schwan considers the Series A AMC yen as the first MPC.&nbsp; The A yen notes were intially issued for a short time in Korea after WWII.&nbsp; This was to differentiate them from the B yen that was issued in the Japanese homeland.&nbsp; After the A yen were withdrawn from Korea, they were issued to US military personnel in Japan and could only be used in the US military installations.&nbsp; A yen could be converted to B yen but not the other way around.&nbsp; In other words, the A yen functioned the same as the later issues of MPC would.&nbsp; The success of the experimental use of A yen in this manner led directly to the introduction of MPC.&nbsp; The A yen was withdrawn from use when Series 461 MPC was introduced.&nbsp; The A yen is sometimes referred to as an experimental MPC series.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Europe, a coupon system was initially tried in Berlin.&nbsp; US personnel were issued coupons in addition to their regular pay which was paid in AMC marks.&nbsp; The coupons had a face vaue equivalent to the amount of pay received but were not legal tender themselves.&nbsp; In order to spend marks in the US military installations, US personnel had to present the coupons as well.&nbsp; This prevented US military personnel from spending more than the aggregate pay.&nbsp; This was designed to control blackmarketing by providing a control on the amount of money US personnel could spend or send home.&nbsp; They could spend all the marks they wanted on the German economy but were limited in what they could spend or send home by money order.</p><p><br /></p><p>In comparison to the A yen system, the coupon system was determined to be too cumbersome.&nbsp; The coupon system was stopped in Berlin when MPC was introduced.&nbsp; A similar coupon system was used in Vietnam for Korean and Thai personnel who could use US MPC.&nbsp; The US military in Europe after WWII also tried to use currency control books in which all pay and transactions were recorded in the books.&nbsp; This was also determined to be too cumbersome and ineffective.</p><p><br /></p><p>The currency control books are scarce with only a few known.&nbsp; None of the coupons used in Berlin are known to exist in collections or elsewhere.&nbsp; The only reason they are known to have been used is that they were described in articles in the European Stars and Stripes and other contemoporary military publications.&nbsp; The Korean and Thai MPC coupons are available but most are not cheap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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