News & Notes Volume X, No. 51
June 3, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Banknote and Currency Articles from PCGS Grading
- The Mysterious Notes of D. B. Cooper. From April 2025.
- The Legacy of the Fr. 321 1891 $20 Silver Certificate. From March 2025.
- Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of The King with the "Elvis Note". From February 2025.
- Canada WWII "If Day" Propaganda Note. From December 2024.
- Series 1880 $1,000 Legal Tender. From December 2023.
- Baseball Advertising Scrip at Bat. From December 2023.
- 1902 $5 Red Seal National Bank Note. From April 2023.
- 1868 National Lincoln Monument Association Donation Receipt. From February 2022.
Currency Coming and Going
- Two Patacas (International Monetary Fund).
- Waves of Bank Failures, 1930-1933 (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Reports of India retiring 500 rupee notes (Fortune India).
- The obsolete Danish notes still in circulation (The Local).
- Erasing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's legacy, from banknotes and elsewhere (News 18).
- EU to approve Bulgaria's entry into the Eurozone (Reuters).
- Bulgarian protests to preserve the lev (Euronews)
- India will transform retired banknotes into particle board (The Siasat Daily).
- Argentina Under Currency Competition (The Eurasia Review).
- Claims about Kenya's currency designs (Kenyans.co).
- Contextualizing the Great Depression (Mercatus Center).
- Stablecoins and antebellum banking (Paul Krugman).
- Austrian Economics and Cryptocurrencies (Hackernoon)
- The Penny is Going Away (American University).
- Money and "economic theology" (Stanford University).
- Political Risk, Economic Coercion, and De-dollarization (Hinrich Foundation).
The Business of Collecting
- The Business of Numismatics, June 2025 (Greysheet).
- A Curious Group of American Bank Note Company Proofs (Stack's Bowers).
- A Legal Tender Oddity from the Twentieth Century (Stack's Bowers).
- CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 253, June 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French).
- Baden and Württemberg chapters of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
- Celebrating Iceland's Jón Sigurðsson (Banknote World).
- Selma Lagerlöf on Sweden's 20 kronor banknote (Banknote World).
- Japan's Takenouchi no Sukune on 1 yen notes (Banknote World).
- Juan Sebastián Elcano, circumnavigator (Banknote World).
- How Switzerland Found its Currency (Numismatic News).
- Tasmania: Banknotes from the Other Side of the World (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- The Introduction of the Czech Koruna in February 1993 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- New Zimbabwean ZiG notes are on the way (Bulawayo 24).
- Bangladesh's new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Bolivia issues new currency with improved security features (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- East Bay-Concord Coin Show, Concord, CA , June 6-7 (Norcal Coin Shows).
- Des Moines Coin Club Show, Urbandale, IA, June 6-7 (Coinshows-USA).
- Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Show, Salem, VA, June 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
June 7
June 8
- Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Royal Oak, MI
- Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Brantford, ON; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, June 3 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, June 3 (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
- 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
- Philippines polymer banknotes win IACA industry award (Daily Guardian).
- Repercussions from De La Rue's Kenya exit (TUKO).
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- 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
- The "double money" scam (OMMCOM News).
- A counterfeiting spree of Clydesdale banknotes (BBC).
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
