The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- The Collectorama Show, Lakeland, FL, Feb. 6-8 (The Collectorama Show).
- The Sacramento Coin Show, McClellan, CA, Feb. 7-8 (Sacramento Coin Show).
- Vicksburg Coin Show, Vicksburg, MS, Feb. 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
- Charlotte Coin Club Show, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 7-8 (Charlotte Coin Club).
- Houston Spring Coin Show, Houston, TX, Feb. 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
- Virginia Beach Coin Show, Virginia Beach, VA, Feb. 7-8 (Tidewater Coin Club).
- 60th Greater America Coin Show, St. Louis, MO, Feb 7-9 (St. Louis Numismatic Association).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
February 8
February 9
- Phoenix, AZ; Van Nuys, CA; Orange, CT; Marietta, GA; Auburn, MA; Commerce, MI; Royal Oak, MI; Maple Grove, MN
- Nebraska City, NE; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Ottawa, ON; Telford, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Tuesday U.S. Currency Select Auction, February 4 (HA)
- Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, February 4 (HA)
- Archives International Auction No. 99, February 5 (AIA).
- Heritage Fractional Currency Auction, February 9 (HA).
- CGB Internet Auction, February 19 (CGB Numismatique).
- Heritage Confederate Currency Auction, February 23 (HA).
- February 2025 World Collectors Choice Auction, Part I February 24 (Stack's Bowers).
- February 2025 World Collectors Choice Auction, Part 2, February 25 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Winter U.S. Colonial Currency Auction, March 9 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Long Beach Expo, Long Beach, CA, February 20-22 (Long Beach Expo).
- ANA National Money Show, Atlanta, GA, February 27-March 1 (ANA).
- 86th Annual CSNS Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-26, 2025 (CSNS).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- High Security Printing - EMEA, Basel, Switzerland, February 3-5, 2025 (Reconnaissance).
- Intergraf Currency + Identity, Milan, Italy, 2025 (Intergraf Conference).
- High Security Printing - Latin America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-11, 2025, 2025 (Reconnaissance).
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
- 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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