Hello mpc fans,

Happy Sunday. In reponse to the discussion on what
Brad called "border pairs," Joe Boling wrote that we
should call these change over pairs because this is a
well established term in pm collecting. Actually, I
had thought of that during the discussion on chat, but
held off on that part. Then I thought that we might
want to come up with our own terminology because the
term is not now used for such things as positions. 

However, I am changing my opinion. I had a chat today
with profski about this and he thinks that change over
pair is not only a good term, but applicable. The only
problems seems to be that we have three different
types of change overs that we are considering: change
over from one position to the next, from one unit to
the next, and from one printing to the next. Of course
each order of change over includes all of the lower
orders. There is also another twist. A printing
changeover need not be consecutive serial numbers.
This is the case of known skips in numbering.

There are still some questions about these skips that
must be studied.

Joe and Ski also opined that even a "simple" position
change over pair will be very difficult to locate and
I agree. Whereas consecutive numbers are not at all
unusual because the notes were issued and even in many
cases circulated that way. However, such pairs were
not only from separate bundles of 100, but also
different boxes of 4000 notes. Of course just because
it is difficult, does not mean that we should not try
to locate such pairs.

Seems to me that the way to start is by trying to
locate as many changeover notes (half of a pair) as we
can. As we find some of these, it might be possible to
pair some of them. Phil Goldstein has been collecting
notes like this on general principles but I do not
know if he has even a single changeover note.

Of course as always, I will be happy to hear your
comments on this.

I finally received a new $5 FRN in change. My bank has
not had any yet. My first $5 is a FW product which I
thought was slightly interesting.

Had a nice chat on the phone today with Steve Feller.
Steve is a specialist and expert on concentration camp
notes. We might have a special event in the next two
weeks with Steve at chat.

Have a nice day and hope to see you at chat tonight.

Fred


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