Mormon Church Depression Scrip

Money substitutes, such as this piece and a host of others, served the public by providing a circulating medium when banks all over were closed. The stamp scrip idea was usedin many areas around the country. At times it worked well, but at other times it was not so successful. Apparently it was accepted well enough in Salt Lake City as evidenced bythe stamps covering the entire back of this certificate.

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Mormon church issued money substitute scrip(https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/mormon-church-issued-money-substitute-scrip)

Royal Canadian Mint Peace and Liberty Medal

The 2019-dated "Peace and Liberty" medal featuring a reverse design by retired Royal Canadian Mint Senior Engraver Susan Taylor and an obverse design by 12th Chief Engraver ofthe U.S. Mint John Mercanti was recently released.

Taylor is the winner of the 2016 American Medal of the Year Award and the designer of the International Art Medal Federation 2018 Congress medal.

Mercanti is known for his designing more coins and medals than any other designer in U.S. Mint history; this includes the "American Eagle" silver dollar reverse.

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New medal unites well-known Canadian, U.S. engravers(http://canadiancoinnews.com/new-medal-unites-well-known-canadian-u-s-engravers/)

Royal Mail Withdraws D-Day Stamp

Royal Mail has withdrawn a stamp design marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day - after BBC News pointed out it showed US troops landing in what was Dutch New Guinea, nearly8,500 miles from France.

The stamp was due to be released next year in a "Best of British" collection.

Captioned "Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore", it was said to depict the Normandy landings but was actually taken in what is modern-day Indonesia.

People who saw the error in a social media preview called it "embarrassing".

The image appears on the American National WWII Museum website, attributed to the US Coast Guard, and is said to show troops carrying stretchers from a landing craft at Sarmi,Dutch New Guinea on 17 May 1944.

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Royal Mail criticised for D-Day stamp mix-up (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46694509)