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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2667
August 24, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2667

The ANA World's Fair of Money opens in Pittsburgh, the 2027 MPCFest dates are finally fixed at 19-21 March, and Tom Sparks decodes the short snorter of Charles W. ("Snarlin' Charlie") King, a $20 Series 1934A note carrying more than fifty signatures from the South Pacific.
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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2664
August 15, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2664

Bill Myers shows a patriotic cover postmarked 11 December 1941, the day the United States declared war on Germany and Italy, and marks the anniversary of V-J Day with an Australian End of World War II commemorative coin pack. Details firm up for the Steve Feller dinner in Pittsburgh.
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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2663
August 5, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2663

Ray Feller announces a dinner honoring Steve Feller at the Pittsburgh World's Fair of Money. Kazuya Fujita and Joseph Boling present a preliminary analysis of Japanese leading-9 and leading-10 serial numbers as replacement notes, exclusive to the Gram.
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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2662
July 25, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2662

The second installment of The Boling Papers presents a Free French propaganda rubber stamp on a Bank of France 5 franc note, saved from a short snorter. Tom Sparks reports on his first ANA Summer Seminar and the World War II Numismatics class.
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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2661
July 7, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2661

Joe Boling turns over more than 100 research files for Remembered 2, and the first installment of The Boling Papers reprints two 1947 New York Times reports on Russia's unrestricted printing of Allied military marks from American plates.
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MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2660
June 26, 2026

MPC Gram Series 27 No. 2660

Tom Sparks has a rare short snorter signed by James Stewart while the actor served with the 453rd Bomb Group in England, and will donate it to the Jimmy Stewart Museum. Fred files a show report from the Colorado Springs coin show held between Summer Seminar sessions.
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