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The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 48, November 13, 2005, Article 10 HOWARD DANIEL REPORTS FROM BANGKOK The following is an excerpt from an article E-Sylum regular Howard A. Daniel III published this week in the MPC Gram (#1369). It's a report on his numismatic adventures, filed from Bangkok, Thailand: Howard writes: “I sent emails and called everyone I was to meet in Bangkok after settling into my room. My first meeting was with Barent Springsted. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer here during the war and he stayed to work in the investment community. He is a paper money and map collector, and has MPC in his collection. We had dinner in the restaurant and talked over it for more than two hours. His Thai wife is almost a perfect twin of my Vietnamese wife! My second meeting was with Ron Cristal, who is a former USAF JAG officer I met over here during the war. He stayed here and opened his own law firm. It has done very well and he is one of THE collectors of Thai metal financial instruments. He is working on a reference that will become THE best one for Thailand, but he is not into paper so you will not see Thai MPC Coupons in it. Then Barent, Ron and I met Mr Lee, Bangkok's foremost numismatic dealer for a lunch at the Sofitel Hotel. It started at 12 Noon and finished around 3PM. We talked and talked about family and numismatics. The next day, I went to see Ron again, and then on to Mr Lee's shop; L. Kim Guan. He brought me into his office and stacked up boxes of Vietnamese paper in front of me. And two sets of plates for the common DRVN Nam Bo 1 Dong note! I bought one set of the plates to use in a future exhibit. I also bought several modern Vietnamese notes with higher or lower blocks than I have in my database. And four Government of Indochina 10 Cent WWII-era notes. Two of them have the same exact numbers and are replacements! I need to get them to Joe Boling to update WWII Remembered.” Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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