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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Honolulu Dick, post: 1002652, member: 24745&quot;]Your Series 692 $1 note is a mighty handsome example of MPC art.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since this series was intended for issue in the Nam, it&#039;s interesting to note the huge differences between the N American bison [as shown] and the SE Asian water buffalo, both highly iconic of their respective regions.&nbsp; While the Asian water buffalo is a domesticated, placid beast of burden, the MPC buffalo has his head lowered and facing, while his tail is raised in the alarmed position.&nbsp; He looks as though he has just finished pawing the ground and is lining-up his sights for a charge.&nbsp; The choice of such an aggressive stance is rather interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the rural areas of Vietnam, public education ran to only the sixth grade.&nbsp; Village boys had the next few years, ages 12 thru 14, to develop as children before going to work in the rice paddies or hiring on as apprentices to one of the manual trades.&nbsp; The boys spent their days herding the village buffalo herd.&nbsp; As we patrolled the roads following along canals, we would wave to the boys who spent their days riding on the backs of their&nbsp; animals while they [the buffalo] fed on the vegetation that grew on the banks of the canals.&nbsp; The animals were largely submerged, so the boys would cross their legs over the buffalo&#039;s horns to keep their feet dry.&nbsp; At lunch time, elders from the village arrived in sampans with individual buckets of rice and fish for the boys.&nbsp; And there they were, enjoying a picnic lunch while sitting on the back of a buffalo, and while the buffalo slowly chewed its own lunch, freshly picked from the canal bank.&nbsp; When of age, those happy boys would be drafted by one side or the other and their peaceful lives changed forever.&nbsp; Not a pleasant prospect. </p><p><br /></p><p>Great looking MPC note.&nbsp; Good work on your part.&nbsp; Thanks for sharing.&nbsp; Good on&nbsp; you!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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