INTERNATIONAL PAPER MONEY SPEAKERS SOUGHT

IPMS is the paper money speaking event of the year! Gain the cachet of giving your great presentation at the IPMS!

We invite presentations on any fiscal paper or fiscal paper tie-in topic. We will have a packed program. We always want new speakers with new topics! Please pass this on to anyone you think might want to contribute.

Talks are scheduled on Friday and Saturday (June 14 & 15) on the hour. Each speaker is allotted 50 minutes, which includes time for questions.

You are encouraged to mount a parallel exhibit in the exhibition area. Check the IPMS website for exhibit details.

As chair of this thing, what I am always looking for is CREATIVITY. I am wide open to any viable topic pertaining to any facet of paper currency or collectable monetary paper instruments, particularly talks that place collectables in some larger, even unexpected, context. The programs that draw are those that contain NEW RED MEAT - particularly if the coverage involves the PEOPLE and ACTION behind the notes, be it those who were responsible for an historic event involving some collectable or those who made a truly significant contribution to numismatics.

Top draws have been presentations on the Treasury officials in the FDR Treasury who redefined U. S. currency and in the process saved the economic fabric of the country during the Great Depression and the story of Col. Green who singlehandedly was responsible for saving the vast majority of number 1 Series of 1929 national bank notes.

Which talk would you rather attend? Would you prefer to engage Key Pittman as one of the greatest numismatic heroes or one of the greatest numismatic villains or would you prefer to delve into an arcane discourse on some minute engraving variety on some early $1 silver certificate? Just pitch something to me that successfully answers this challenge and you'll be welcomed with open arms. More than this, I simply can't say.

• Joseph Boling: The making of a specialist
• Steve Carr: National banks and notes from the other Kansas City
• Carlson Chambliss: 106 years of Hawaii currency from scrip to WW II
• James Ehrhardt: Iowa obsolete currency where private issues were banned
• Peter Huntoon: George Casilear's patented lettering on large-size U. S. currency
• Peter Huntoon: How intaglio printing plates were made
• Lee Lofthus: Are the published outstanding National Bank Note data any good?—the big picture!
• Wendell Wolka: Old tales connected to obsolete paper money and banking
• Jamie Yakes: Series of 1928 Federal Reserve Notes

• Bill Brandimore: Collecting small size Federal Reserve notes with an emphasis on $5s
• Joseph Boling: How fakers messed up their products—laziness or ignorance
• Robert Calderman: Cherry Picking 101: How to score amazing notes without breaking the bank!
• Steve Carr: Inside Kansas Nationals—One amazing tale on top of another
• Carlson Chambliss: Philippine emergency paper money, 1941-1945
• Ray and Steve Feller: Overprints on WWII Currency
• Jerry Fochtman: Dr. Daniel W. Valentine—postage and fractional currency & half dime pioneer
• Pierre Fricke: Counterfeit Confederate money made in the Union
• Peter Huntoon: New Deal Money, the creation of money during the Great Depression
• Roger Urce: Japanese Colonial Issues for Taiwan
• Wendell Wolka: Confederate Printers—the Good Bad and Ugly Jamie Yakes R & S experimental $1 1935A silver certificates