Things to Read While You're in Self-Quarantine
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
PANIC!
- The Panic of 1819: America's First Great Depression, by Clyde A. Haulman (Museum of American Finance). Pdf. From 2010.
- The Panic of 1819--America's First Great Economic Crisis, by James Narron, David R. Skeie, and Donald P. Morgan (Federal Reserve Bank of NY). From 2014.
- 1837: The Hard Times (Harvard Business School).
- The Panic of 1857: Origins, Transmission, Containment, by Charles W. Calomiris and Larry Schweikart (Columbia Graduate School of Business). Pdf. From 1991.
- Defensive Suspension and the Panic of 1857, by Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron (Federal Reserve Bank of NY). From 2015.
- Banking Panics of the Gilded Age, by Garry Richardson and Tim Sablik, mostly about 1873 and 1893 (Federal Reserve History). From 2015.
- Gold, Deflation, and the Panic of 1893, by Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron (Federal Reserve Bank of NY). From 2016.
- The Depression of 1893, by David O. Whitten (EH.net).
- The Panic of 1907, by John R. Moen and Ellis W. Tallman (Federal Reserve History). From 2015.
Currency Coming and Going
Dina Saadi's repurposed Syrian banknote (Arab News).
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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)
- Wasatch Winter Coin Show, Sandy, UT, Jan. 29-30 (Greysheet).
- Middle Georgia Coin and Currency Show, Perry GA, Jan. 30 (SPMC).
- West Penn Coin Club Annual Coin Show, Cheswick, PA, Jan. 30-31 (Greysheet).
- Vicksburg Coin Show, Vicksburg, MS, Jan. 30-31 (Coinshows-USA).
- Hunt Valley-Timonium Coin and Currency Show, Lutherville-Timonium, MD, Jan. 31 (Coinzip).
- Redford Coin Show, Redford Township, MI, Jan. 31 (Coinshows-USA).
- Greenhills Classic Coin, Stamp, and Currency Show, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 31 (Coinzip).
CANCELLED SHOWS: Wheaton, IL; Manchester, NH; Mesa, AZ; Fargo, ND
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
(Organized by earliest ending date)
- Heritage World Paper Money Weekly Auction, Jan. 21-28 (Greysheet).
- Heritage US Currency Weekly Auction, Jan. 26 (Greysheet).
- Archives International Auction 64, Jan. 27 (Archives International).
- Lyn Knight Auctions World Paper Money, Jan. 29 (Lyn Knight).
- Spink China Southeast Asian Banknotes and Coins, Jan. 30 (Spink).
- Heritage World Paper Money Weekly Auction, Feb. 2 (Greysheet).
- Heritage US Currency Weekly Auction, Feb. 2 (Greysheet).
- Stack's Bowers February Collectors Choice Auction, Feb. 3 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage The Hunter Collection of Continental and Colonial Currency, Feb. 11 (Heritage Auctions).
- CGB Numismatique Live Auction Banknotes, Feb. 16 (CGB).
- Heritage The Collar City Collection of New York Nationals, Feb. 21 (Heritage Auction).
- Dix Noonan Webb, British, Irish and World Banknotes, Feb. 24 (DNW).
- Stack's Bowers preview of the Karelian Collection, Mar. 24 (Stack's Bowers).
Cancelled and Rescheduled Shows/Conventions
- CANCELLED: NY International Numismatic Convention, January 2021 (NYINC).
- CANCELLED: FUN Show, Orlando, FL, January 7-10, 2021 (FUN).
- CANCELLED: Long Beach Expo, February 2021 (Long Beach Expo).
- CANCELLED: ANA National Money Show, Phoenix, AZ, March 11-`13, 2021 (ANA).
- Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, March 25-27, 2021 (Whitman Expo).
- ANA World's Fair of Money, Chicago, IL, August 10-14, 2021 (ANA).
- XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-16, 2022 (INC).
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, February 17-18, 2021 (The Future of Cash).
- The Banknote Conference, Washington, D.C., July 12-15, 2021 (Currency Research).
- High Security Printing-Latin America, Mexico City, March 8-10, 2021 (Reconnaissance).
- Digital Document Security, Vienna, Austria, Feb 2-4, 2021 (Reconnaissance).
- Tax Stamp and Traceability Forum, Malta, April 12-14, 2021 (Reconnaissance).
- The Europe Cash Cycle Seminar, Amsterdam, Nov 9-11, 2020 (Currency Research).
- High Security Printing-Asia, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan 18-20, 2021 (Reconnaissance).
- SecurityPrinters Banknotes + Identity, Lyon, France, March 24-26, 2021 (SecurityPrinters).
- The Currency Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, May 17-20, 2021 (Currency Research).
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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)
- A Library of Scrip and Local Currency
- Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
- Pakistani Currency
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