From the Internet Bookshelf
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
More Material on Mexico, and Central America
Currency Coming and Going
- Women on bills (IFA Magazine).
- Erdogan dispenses currency largesse (The Guardian).
- The Life and Death of the Rs 2,000 Note (The Wire).
- The informal market in "pink" rupees (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Emirati dealers refuse Indian 2,000 rupee notes (The Gulf Today).
- As India goes, so might Pakistan (The Nation).
- Getting used to a cashless China (VN Express).
- The Man Who Invented the Trillion Dollar Coin (NY Mag).
- Illustrations of Franklin's kite experiment include BEP engraving (Ars Technica).
- Zimbabwe's small change crisis (Zawya).
- Zimbabwe seeks to de-U.S. dollarize (Reuters). "This is akin to using toothpaste when you have lost your teeth." And Harare street traders prefer dollars (VOA).
- Belarus says no plans to adopt Russian ruble (RFE).
- A BRICs currency? (Watcher.Guru).
- A single currency for Africa? (GhanaWeb).
- History of the European Central Bank in "25 moments" (Politico).
- From Taler to Mark: The Long Road to a Common Currency (Coinsweekly).
- Call for Papers: Money and National Identity (Coinsweekly).
- History of the French 500 franc "Molière" note (Numismag)
- All paper: Guinea, Pound, Shilling, Sovereign, and Penny (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Currency emissions of the Franco-Prussian War (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- The Stockholm Bank and the origins of paper money in Europe (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
- Paying rent with eels in medieval England (Atlas Obscura, via E-Sylum).
- The "Keep it Cash" movement (WSJ, excerpted in E-Sylum).
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The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Texas Numismatic Association Show, Arlington, TX, June 1-4 (TNA).
- Des Moines Coin Club annual show, Des Moines, IA, June 2-4 (Coinzip).
- HUNTSPEX 2023, Huntsville, AL, June 3-4 (Coinzip).
- Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Shows, Salem, VA, June 3-4 (Coinzip).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
June 3
June 4
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 30 (via Greysheet).
- Heritage Tuesday World Paper Money Auction, May 30 (via Greysheet).
- Lyn Knight May 2023 World Currency auction, May 31 (Lyn Knight).
- Noonans Banknote Auction, May 31-June 1 (Noonans).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Auction, $500 and $1000 notes, June 1 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice World Banknote Auction Part I, June 6 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice World Banknote Auction Part 2, June 7 (Stack's Bowers).
- Crown Currency Live Auction 18, June 13 (Crown Currency).
- A. Karamitsos Auction, June 17-18 (Sixbid).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 8-10 (Whitman Expo).
- Summer TOREX Show, Toronto, ON, June 24-25 (TOREX).
- Summer FUN, Orlando, FL, July 13-15 (FUN).
- RCNA 2023 Annual Convention, Halifax, NS, July 18-22 (Canadian Coin News).
- 2023 World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh, PA, August 8-12 (ANA).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
From the Annals of Crime
Websites 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
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- 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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