Things to Read While You're in Self-Quarantine
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
Individual Collector Websites
(some non-commercial--or at least mostly so--sites showcasing individual collections that haven't been featured before)
Currency Coming and Going
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The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Shows/Conventions Happening this Week that aren't Cancelled
(U.S. Shows only, some very local--call ahead to confirm)
- Louisville and Kentucky State Numismatic Association 60th Annual Coin Show, Louisville, KY, Oct. 8-10 (Louisville Coin Club).
- Northern Utah Coin Show, Layton, UT, Oct. 9-10 (Utah Coin Shows).
- South Arkansas Coin & Currency Show, El Dorado, AR, Oct. 9-11 (CDN Publishing).
- Vegas Fall Pop-Up Coin Show, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 9-11 (CDN Publishing).
- Iowa Numismatic Association Convention, Urbandale, IA, Oct. 9-11 (INA).
- Cleveland Coin Expo, Broadview Heights, OH, Oct. 10 (CDN Publishing).
- Colts Neck Coin, Stamp, & Currency Show, Colts Neck, NJ, Oct. 10 (CDN Publishing).
- West Suburban Coin + Collectibles Show, Countryside, IL, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing). This one is iffy; the Sept. show was cancelled.
- 71st Street Coin and Currency Show, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
- Montgomery County Coin Show, Telford, PA, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
- O.N.R. Coin Show, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
- First Sunday Fairfield Coin and Sports Card Show, Fairfield, CT, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
- Polk County Coin Show, Rickreall, OR, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
- Onandaga Numismatic Association Coin + Currency Show, Syracuse, NY, Oct. 11 (CDN Publishing).
Cancelled and Rescheduled Shows/Conventions
This list will try to incorporate coronavirus-related schedule changes, when known.
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- The Future of Cash, Madrid, Spain, October 28-29, 2020 (The Future of Cash).
- The Banknote Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2-5, 2020 (Currency Research).
- High Security Printing-Latin America, August 30-September 2, 2020, Mexico City (Reconnaissance).
- Digital Document Security, October 5-7, 2020, Vienna, Austria (Reconnaissance).
- Tax Stamp and Traceability Forum, 19-21 October, 2020, Tbilisi, Geogia (Reconnaissance).
- The Europe Cash Cycle Seminar, November 9-11, 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Currency Research).
- High Security Printing-Asia, 7-9 December, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Reconnaissance).
- SecurityPrinters Banknotes + Identity, Lyon, France, March 24-26, 2021 (SecurityPrinters).
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From the Annals of Crime
Websites to Like
- 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).
- 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
- The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
- Curious Banknotes (British Transition Towns, British 20th century vouchers, Micronations).
- 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).
- Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates).
- Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates).
- 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
- Counting on Currency (Industry website).
- Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
- PYMNTS.com (Industry website).
- Currency Research (Industry website).
- International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
- International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
- International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
- De La Rue (Company website).
- Secura Monde International (Company website). Good banknote news feed.
- 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)
- French Banknotes of War (Collector's website). Abundant material in English and French.
- AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
- Monnaies Locales Complementaires
- Guild of Independent Currencies (promotes local currencies in the U.K.)
- Our Money (Eurozone currency).
- The Ephemera Society of America (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics)
- Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
- Pakistani Currency
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