The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
(Always call ahead to confirm)
March 22
- Scottsdale, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Ft. Myers, FL; St. Augustine, FL; Tampa, FL; Owensboro, KY; Grand Haven, MI
- Linwood, NJ; Denison, TX; Colonial Heights, VA
March 23
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- uesday U.S. Currency Select Auction, March 18 (HA)
- Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, March 18 (HA)
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, March 20 (Stack's Bowers).
- Noonans The Frank Goon Collection, Part 3, March 22 (Noonans Mayfair).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, March 25 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, Part II, March 26 (Stack's Bowers).
- Archives International Auction 100, March 26 (AIA).
- Lyn Knight Auction, March 26 (Lyn Knight).
- Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, March 27-28 (HA).
- Heritage The Balmoral Collection Auction, March 30 (HA).
- Stack's Spring Showcase Auction Part I, April 3 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Spring Showcase Auction, Part II, April 3 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Spring Showcase Auction, Part III, April 4 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Spring Hong Kong World Paper Money Auction, April 5 (HA).
- CGB Live Auction April 2025, April 15 (CGB Numismatique).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, March 27-29 (Whitman Expos).
- 86th Annual CSNS Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-26, 2025 (CSNS).
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum, Cape Town, South Africa, April 7-9 (Reconnaissance).
- The Currency Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, May 26-29 (Reconnaissance).
- High Security Printing - Latin America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-11 (Reconnaissance).
- Identity Week Europe, Amsterdam, June 17-18 (Identity Week).
- Identity Week America, Washington, D.C., September 10-11 (Identity Week).
- Optical and Digital Document Security, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17 (Reconnaissance).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2 (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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