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Less than eight years after the invention of manned flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, there was documented use of an airplane being employed during war. Not during World War I, but the Italo-Turkish war of 1911 .Other than bombing or reconnaissance, one of the most common uses for warplanes quickly became airborne leaflet dropping. This consists of hollow cluster bomb type containers filled with large quantities of leaflets that are then dropped over populated areas of enemy territory. By "bombing the enemy with ideas," these leaflets often fall into the psyops category of war, and have six main objectives. Why is this the subject of a talk given at a coin show? Of the millions of propaganda leaflets dropped across space and time, there is a fascinating subset which could be considered exonumia. These are leaflets that display a print of local banknotes on one or more face (often the obverse) and the propaganda message on the reverse. Some were so accurate that, especially in Vietnam, locals used them as counterfeit currency! Speaker: Tyler Rossi.

Event video is also accessible on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_s-3Hd-saY.