From the Internet Bookshelf
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
A Visit to the Rhode Island Currency Website
"This website hosts a personal collection of paper money from the state of Rhode Island"
Richly illustrated, gorgeous scans of notes from the colonial, antebellum, and national banking eras.
Click on individual notes for enlarged images and commentary.
Here is the homepage.
A few sample notes:
A few bank histories:
Notes are organized by both county and city/town. Use the vertical menu on the homepage to navigate.
Clicking on "view by bank name" leads to profiles of dozens of Rhode Island banks.
Currency Coming and Going
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The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
(Always call ahead to confirm)
June 8
June 8
- Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT; Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Aberdeen, MD; Royal Oak, MI
- Southfield, MI; Flemington, NJ; Melville, NY; Brantford, ON; Ottawa, ON; Salem, OR; Telford, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Long Beach Expo, Long Beach, CA, June 6-8 (Long Beach Expo)
- Whitman Baltimore Summer Expo, June 13-15 (Whitman Expos).
- TOREX, Toronto, ON, June 22-23 (Canadian Coin News).
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 11-13 (FUN).
- World's Fair of Money, Chicago, IL, Aug. 6-10, 2024 (ANA).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- High Security Printing-Latin America, Santiago, Chile, June 3-5, 2024 (Reconnaissance).
- Cash Sustainability Form, Frankfurt, Germany, June 24-26 (Reconnaissance).
- Global Currency Forum, Muscat, Oman, September 30-October 3 (International Currency Association).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2-4, 2024 (Reconnaissance).
From the Annals of Crime
Website to Like
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- Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads)
- Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library)
- Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum)
- The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
- The Souvenir Card Collectors Society
- New York Toll Script and Tokens (Collector website)..
- The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
- International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
- The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
- The Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
- Cigar History Museum's coupon gallery
- Boordgeld (Dutch ships' money)
- Depression Scrip (emergency money of the 1930s, and more)
- Wisconsin Depression Scrip
- Caishen's Temple-Asia Money
- Elkader Auction House
- Minnesota Nice
- The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
- COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
- MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
- Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
- Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
- Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
- Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
- Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
- Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
- My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip")
- Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
- Scotsbanknotes
- Cash Essentials (Industry website devoted to promoting cash usage).
- Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
- PYMNTS.com (Industry website).
- Currency Research (Industry website).
- International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
- De La Rue (Company website).
- Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
- Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
- Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
- Where's George? (currency tracking project).
- Banknoter
- Numismondo
- CoinsWeekly, numismatic website run by Ursula Kampmann. German-language version is here. Content is not identical.
- Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
- AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
- Monnaies Locales Complementaires
- Our Money (Eurozone currency).
- The Ephemera Society of America (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics)
- A Library of Scrip and Local Currency
- Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
- Pakistani Currency
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