Paper Money Oddities
July 11, 12pm MT
This presentation covers a variety of errors and environmental issues that can affect paper money, such as ink starvation errors, offset errors, other printing defects associated with the several steps in creating US notes, and color changelings.
Joseph Boling began collecting numismatic items in the 1950s, and is a specialist in Japanese numismatic emissions and world counterfeit paper money. He lived in Japan 1957-60 and 1983-85, first with his US Air Force father and later during his own 28-year Army career. He has also lived in Morocco, Germany, and Vietnam for a total of twelve years.
His Japanese coins were sold at auction in Hong Kong in 1989, and the most significant of the banknotes there in 2001. His Japanese bonds and shares, composing one of the world's finest private collections, were sold in 2006. His most recent book (as author) is World War II Remembered: History in Your Hands, a Numismatic Study, written with C. Frederick Schwan, 864pp, 1995. He has also edited several books, most recently Forging Secrets: Faces and Facts Inside the Nazi Operation Bernhard Scheme, for which he also wrote the technical chapter.
Colonel Boling has been the ANA’s chief exhibit judge for 26 of the past 33 years. He has trained ANA judges since 1986. He has taught at the ANA’s summer seminar since 1999, teaching, co-teaching, or guest lecturing in over a dozen courses. In 2007 the ANA Goodfellows established the Joseph E. Boling Award for Excellence in Judging, now awarded annually to a judge selected by the ANA chief judge and a representative of the Goodfellows. He was elected to the ANA’s Hall of Fame in 2023.