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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 3075917, member: 6986&quot;]That is not at all how this happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was not a service member, it was a civilian employee who conspired with a collector for the purpose of enriching both of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Army had made a decision that both Series 691 and 701 were no longer serviceable after having been in storage for many years.&nbsp; They then had to make a decision of what to do with them.&nbsp; They explored two choices -- destroy them as a controlled item or sell them as surplus material through DRMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many well-known and well-connected MPC collectors lobbied the Army not to destroy them but could not reach a consensus on what to do with them if not destroyed.&nbsp; Ultimately, many were destroyed but significant numbers were turned over to the Army Finance Museum at Fort Jackson where they remain today.&nbsp; The Museum has many boxes of notes.&nbsp; There are thousands of notes of all varieties in the museum archives and a small number on display.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those notes that are in the marketplace were stolen from the government and filtered into the marketplace from a source in Fort Wayne.&nbsp; Their doing so had nothing to do with some noble idea of preserving history.&nbsp; It was done to make them money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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