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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1851378, member: 6986&quot;]The only MPC series before Series 461 is Series A yen when it was used as an experimental military currency used only by US personnel in Japan prior to issuing Series 461 MPC. </p><p><br /></p><p>MPC and AMC (Allied Military Currency) are not related (except for the A yen that was used in Japan).&nbsp; Many people will tell you that AMC was a precursor to MPC or MPC developed from AMC but that is not true.&nbsp; They were issued for very different purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>AMC was issued as occupation currency to compel the occupied country to pay the costs of the occupation.&nbsp; Its was intended to circulate alongside the indigenous currency as a supplement to it.&nbsp; It was intended to be a part of the local economy.&nbsp; It is similar in this respect to Japanese Invasion Money and German Reichskreditkassenschein notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to the introduction of MPC, US military personnel in the occupied countries were paid in AMC.&nbsp; This was consistent with the wartime practice of paying US military personnel in the local currency instead of US dollars.&nbsp; AMC was also used to pay for purchase of goods by the occupation authorities and paying civilian employees of the occupation authorities.</p><p><br /></p><p>MPC was specifically issued to separate the pay of US military personnel from the local economy.&nbsp; AMC and MPC were used at the same time after MPC was introduced in September 1946.&nbsp; MPC was paid to US military personnel as wages.&nbsp; AMC continued to be used as pay for civilian employees and purchases.&nbsp; MPC received as pay could be converted into local currency but local currency could not be converted into MPC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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