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Series 001 Number 78 Aug 4, 2000
News and Views
As you probably know, some of us really crazy collectors have been working on MPC sets with "special" position numbers. I have been working on a set with position one, MPC Kid position two, and Joe Boling position eight. A secret collector has been working on number 69. Doug Bell (Wiz) has twisted the concept so that he is collecting MPC with the position number the same as the denomination. All of these collections look really neat and we are all having a lot of fun with this. A LOT of fun. I told you that we are all crazy.
I am not sure who was the first collecor to pursue this sort of thing. Perhaps it was Ed Hoffman when he started assembling series sets with the last two digits of the serial number matching. That is far from what we are talking about here, but it is a matching number system, so it migh qualify as the ultimate ancestor of this type of collecting.
Many years a go a collector from the south collected any MPC wtih the number 33 on it, position number or serial number (anywhere in the number). Of course he wond up with lots of notes from postion 33. Unfortunately, he seems to have dropped out of collecting and I do not know what happened to him or his collection.
My ultimate goal is to have a complete CU note from position 1, then I do not have to maintain another collection (not that my "main" collection is all CU). I figure that this project will take me the rest of my collecting days--possibly more!
I am pleased to get any note to fill my position number 1 set. I figure that I am lucky to get it. I have been working on this set for a long time, but when I started out, I went slowlys, I did not work very hard at it. The change came at Memphis in 1999 (or possbily 1998) when I met Wiz for the first time.
His basic set of MPC included the worst 541 $5 I had ever seen. Heck, it might be the worst condition MPC of any issue that I have ever seen. It was terrible. I loved it! You guessed it, it was from position number 1. Ultimately we worked out a deal where Wiz got a much nicer note and I got the position 1 note. That really got me going and I have been actively purusing this collection since that time.
Along the way a number of people have offerred me replacements from position 1 for my collection. I have included replacements in this set where I did not have a regular issue from position 1, but I do not intend to try to have a number 1 regular and replacement collection. At least it is not my intention now.
However, Wiz has been looking at the possiblity of including repalcements in his position-denomination collection. He and MPC Kid have been negotiating on one of these. They both went to the list of replacement serial numbers in the MPC book to see how many pieces were reported with position and denominaiton the same. I have said all along that I expected collectors to come up with uses for this list that I had not anticipated--this is certainly one of those!
Can we predict how many of these special combinations should exist in a list of 2000 notes? That should be an interesting study in itself.
Kid sent me a list of the notes. Eighteen of the 2000 notes fit this description (a ninteenth is not listed in the book). These 19 notes represent 10 different issues. In addition, 9 specimens representing 8 issues are reported. Mosty interestingly, none of the issues overlap so 27 different replacements/specimens are reported with postion number and serial number matching.
Obviously, this indicates that finding the matches in replacements is not an easy task. Perhaps more importantly, it also demonstrates how difficult it is to find these matches on regluar issues!
All of this number hunting is great fun. Good luck guys!
A personal note. I have been sick for the past 48 hours. Turns out not to have been serious, but it laid me up so I have been out of touch, sorry. Will be working on catching up.
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Calendar
In this section we will highlight MPC chat, MPC Fest, and MPC gram events. Other events will be mentioned as they get close. For planning purposes see the papermoneyworld.com calendar of events.
The next major show is the American Numismatic Association Convention (August 9-13). This year the convention will be in Philadelphia. 25 years ago the ANA convention was one of the major events for paper money. Now with the development of so many successful paper money shows (and of course the MPC Fest), its importance has diminished, but it is still an important show. Because it is such a big and important show, you cannot help but find some good paper there. Marv Mericle's great MPC collection will NOT be on display as promissed because of family and administration problems. We are certainly sorry to hear about that, but hope that all goes well with Marv and that we will see the exhibit again soon.
I will be there the entire time and will be pleased to chat MPC with you!
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Series 001 Number 78 Aug 4, 2000
News and Views
As you probably know, some of us really crazy collectors have been working on MPC sets with "special" position numbers. I have been working on a set with position one, MPC Kid position two, and Joe Boling position eight. A secret collector has been working on number 69. Doug Bell (Wiz) has twisted the concept so that he is collecting MPC with the position number the same as the denomination. All of these collections look really neat and we are all having a lot of fun with this. A LOT of fun. I told you that we are all crazy.
I am not sure who was the first collecor to pursue this sort of thing. Perhaps it was Ed Hoffman when he started assembling series sets with the last two digits of the serial number matching. That is far from what we are talking about here, but it is a matching number system, so it migh qualify as the ultimate ancestor of this type of collecting.
Many years a go a collector from the south collected any MPC wtih the number 33 on it, position number or serial number (anywhere in the number). Of course he wond up with lots of notes from postion 33. Unfortunately, he seems to have dropped out of collecting and I do not know what happened to him or his collection.
My ultimate goal is to have a complete CU note from position 1, then I do not have to maintain another collection (not that my "main" collection is all CU). I figure that this project will take me the rest of my collecting days--possibly more!
I am pleased to get any note to fill my position number 1 set. I figure that I am lucky to get it. I have been working on this set for a long time, but when I started out, I went slowlys, I did not work very hard at it. The change came at Memphis in 1999 (or possbily 1998) when I met Wiz for the first time.
His basic set of MPC included the worst 541 $5 I had ever seen. Heck, it might be the worst condition MPC of any issue that I have ever seen. It was terrible. I loved it! You guessed it, it was from position number 1. Ultimately we worked out a deal where Wiz got a much nicer note and I got the position 1 note. That really got me going and I have been actively purusing this collection since that time.
Along the way a number of people have offerred me replacements from position 1 for my collection. I have included replacements in this set where I did not have a regular issue from position 1, but I do not intend to try to have a number 1 regular and replacement collection. At least it is not my intention now.
However, Wiz has been looking at the possiblity of including repalcements in his position-denomination collection. He and MPC Kid have been negotiating on one of these. They both went to the list of replacement serial numbers in the MPC book to see how many pieces were reported with position and denominaiton the same. I have said all along that I expected collectors to come up with uses for this list that I had not anticipated--this is certainly one of those!
Can we predict how many of these special combinations should exist in a list of 2000 notes? That should be an interesting study in itself.
Kid sent me a list of the notes. Eighteen of the 2000 notes fit this description (a ninteenth is not listed in the book). These 19 notes represent 10 different issues. In addition, 9 specimens representing 8 issues are reported. Mosty interestingly, none of the issues overlap so 27 different replacements/specimens are reported with postion number and serial number matching.
Obviously, this indicates that finding the matches in replacements is not an easy task. Perhaps more importantly, it also demonstrates how difficult it is to find these matches on regluar issues!
All of this number hunting is great fun. Good luck guys!
A personal note. I have been sick for the past 48 hours. Turns out not to have been serious, but it laid me up so I have been out of touch, sorry. Will be working on catching up.
======================================================== Letters
Your letters are needed, wanted, and appreciated.
========================================================
Calendar
In this section we will highlight MPC chat, MPC Fest, and MPC gram events. Other events will be mentioned as they get close. For planning purposes see the papermoneyworld.com calendar of events.
The next major show is the American Numismatic Association Convention (August 9-13). This year the convention will be in Philadelphia. 25 years ago the ANA convention was one of the major events for paper money. Now with the development of so many successful paper money shows (and of course the MPC Fest), its importance has diminished, but it is still an important show. Because it is such a big and important show, you cannot help but find some good paper there. Marv Mericle's great MPC collection will NOT be on display as promissed because of family and administration problems. We are certainly sorry to hear about that, but hope that all goes well with Marv and that we will see the exhibit again soon.
I will be there the entire time and will be pleased to chat MPC with you!
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Trading post
Your classified advertisement for items for sale will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram.
following items for free on a first come, first served basis:11 6 month subscription coupons for world coin news available and two 6 Month subscriptions to BNR. Contact Dave at coinman@rochester.rr.com.
Do You Yahoo!?
Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites.
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