

News & Notes Volume X, No. 49, May 20, 2025
The Educational Series of Silver Certificates
- Origin and Sudden Demise of Series of 1896 Educational Certificates (Paper Money). From 2025. Pdf at link.
- A Closer Look: Series of 1896 $2 Silver Certificate (PCGS). From 2020.
- The Making of History: The Educational Series, Part One (PMG). From 2015.
- The Making of History: The Educational Series, Part Two (PMG). From 2015.
- The $2 Educational Note Essay--The Original Sketch (Paper Money). From 1979. Pdf at link.
- The $2 Educational Note (Paper Money). From 1975. Pdf at link.
- An Intimate Account of the Design, Engraving and Production of the U.S. Silver Certificates of 1896 (Essay-Proof Journal). From 1968. Pdf at link.
Currency Coming and Going
- How a Dubai banknote has changed over time (Time Out Dubai).
- When the UAE once had a 1 Dirham note (Khaleej Times).
- Sweden's Riksbank on the "obligation to accept cash" (Sveriges Riksbank).
- Syria's Russian relationship (SANA).
- Banknotes Without Assad (Kurdistan24).
- Tea and Credit in 1770s Canton (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Italy's "Let's Design a Banknote" competitions (Banca d'Italia).
- Iran's currency drops four zeros (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Russia runs short of up-to-date Benjamins (MSN).
- Cash rules in Spain (Euroweekly News).
- Scrip currency for Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany (Geldscheine-online, in German).
The Business of Collecting
- PCGS grades Guinness World Record banknote (Coinweek).
- From the upcoming Archives International auction (Numismatic News).
- Collection Inspiration: Drums (PMG).
- Super Serial Numbers (PMG).
- Celebrating the Spanish Neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Banknote World).
- Mexico's 50 peso banknote featuring Ignacio Allende (Banknote World).
- German Naturalist & Artist Maria Sibylla Merian featured on a German 500 mark note (Banknote World).
- Stack's offers rare Canadian notes (PMG).
- Heritage offers Netherlands notes (PMG).
- GreatCollections's Colorado national bank notes (PMG).
- Stack's featuring British Guiana notes in summer auction (Stack's Bowers).
- New Confederate T-8 $50 Variety (Stack's Bowers).
- Advertising notes of the Germania Notgeld Collector's Club (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- The Belarus 80 ruble commemorative (Banknote News).
- Thailand's 1,000 baht commemorative (Banknote News).
- The Kazakh 1,000 tenge commemorative (Banknote News).
- Abkhazia's new 50 aspar note (Banknote News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Michigan's Premier Show, Westland, MI, May 23-24 (Michigan Coin Shows).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
May 24
May 25
- Greenacres, FL; North Attleboro, MA; Livonia, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH
- Albany, OR; Trevose, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 20 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, May 20 (HA).
- CGB Internet Auction, May 20 (CGB Numismatique).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, May 22 (Stack's Bowers).
- Lyn Knight Wong Collection Auction, May 28 (Lyn Knight).
- Noonans World Banknote Auction, May 28 (Noonans Mayfair).
- Stack's Colonial Currency Auction, May 29 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Canadian Currency Auction, May 30 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Spring U.S. Colonial Showcase Auction, June 1 (HA).
- Teutoburger Muenzauktion 168, June 6 (Teutoburger).
- Archives International Auction 103, Part 3, June 11 (AIA).
- Stack's Collectors Choice California National Bank Notes, June 12 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 17 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 29-31 (PAN).
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
- ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Giesecke + Devrient: "Cash Will Not Disappear" (Boersen-Zeitung).
- De La Rue deal is off (Reuters).
- Hopes to reintroduce abaca into Philippines' banknote production (Business Mirror).
- Synthetic Identities, Real Problems (CDO Trends).
- Eco-friendly holograms (Labels and Labeling).
- That Luminomagnetic Afterglow (ACS Publications).
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- 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
- This Malaysian cashier wasn't fooled (The Sun).
- "Massive" robbery of Guinea's new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Chinese-sourced fake chips at Korean casino (GGR Asia).
Websites to Like
(in no particular order)
- 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