The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 14, April 8, 2007, Article 6

APRIL FOOLERY IN THE MPC GRAM

Collectors of Military Payment Certificates had their own April Fools 
prank. In the April 5, 2007 MPC Gram News Letter (#1544) Joe Boling 
writes: "Congratulations to Steve Swoish on engineering a spectacular 
hoax reported in the 1 April gram - the 651 $5 replacement discovery 
note. The resolution of the photo is just low enough that it's hard 
to even determine that the suffix is missing, let alone that the last 
digits of the two serials do not match (a detail I had not noticed 
until it was pointed out to me this evening - they look like a 0 and 
an 8). What I had noticed was that the SN was correct for a position 1 
note (first 8000). But getting it up on an apparently legitimate eBay 
listing is the cat's meow. Way to go, Steve."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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