From the Internet Bookshelf
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
U.S. Labor Exchanges and their Scrip Currency from the 1890s
- The Progressive Hand Book of the Labor Exchange, by E. Z. Ernst (Google Books). An organizer's pamphlet From 1894.
- Labor Exchanges (U.S. Department of Labor, via Google Books), pp. 628-632. From 1896.
- Portrait of a Worker's Utopia: The Labor Exchange and the Freedom, Kans., Colony. by H. Roger Grant (Kansas Historical Society). Originally published 1977.
- Utopia Without Colony: The Labor Exchange Movement, by H. Roger Grant (Communal Studies Association). From 1981. Click on link to download zip file containing pdf articles.
- D.G. DeBernardi and the Labor Exchange Movement, by Steven Whitfield (Paper Money). From 1998.
- Labor Exchange Scrip, by Steven Whitfield (Paper Money). From 2007.
- Labor Exchange Scrip: The Christian Exchange of Detroit, MI, by Steven Whitfield (Paper Money). From 2008.
For a related set of topics, see News & Notes from February 2021 on Money in Utopian and Dystopian Thought.
Currency Coming and Going
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The Business of Collecting
New Banknote Issues
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Midlands Coin Club Show, Columbia, SC, May 4-6 (Midlands Coin Club).
- Oklahoma Numismatic Association Show, El Reno, OK, May 5-6 (El Reno Coins).
- Richmond Coin Club Show, Richmond, VA, May 5-7 (Richmond Coin Club).
- 61st Annual Mississippi Numismatic Association Coin & Currency Show, Biloxi, MS, May 10-13 (Coinzip).
- Southern Idaho Coin Club Show, Boise, ID, May 12-13 (SICC).
- Norman Coin Show, Norman, OK, May 12-13 (Coinzip).
- Gallatin Coin & Currency Show, Gallatin, TN, May 12-13 (Coinzip).
- Southeast Texas Coin Show, Orange, TX, May 12-13 (Coinzip).
- Las Vegas Coin & Collectibles Show, Las Vegas, NV, May 12-14 (Coinzip).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
May 6
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Santee, CA; South San Francisco, CA; Tampa, FL; Grand Haven, MI; Jackson, MI; Lansing, MI
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St. Anthony, MNLamar, MO; Canton, OH; Palmyra, PA; Knoxville, TN; Cross Lanes, WV
May 7
- Anaheim, CA; Norwich, CT; Maitland, FL; Marietta, GA; ndianapolis, IN; Decatur, IN; Hunt Valley, MD
- Topsham, ME; Allen Park, MI; Southfield, MI; Maple Grove, MN; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY' Fairview Park, OH
- Wilsonville, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; Sheboygan, WI
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 2 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Paper Money Auction, May 2 (HA).
- Archives International Auction 84b, May 2-3 (AIA).
- Heritage CSNS Auction, May 5 (HA).
- May 2023 Maastricht Auction, Session A, May 4 (Stack's Bowers).
- May 2023 Maastricht Auction, Session B, May 5 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Auction, May 11 (Stack's Bowers).
- Kagin's May 2023 Auction, May 20 (Kagin's).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Denver Coin Expo, Denver, CO, May 4-6 (Rocky Mountain Expos).
- Spring 2023 Toronto Coin Expo, Toronto, ON, May 5-6 (Canadian Coin News).
- PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 18-20 (PAN).
- 2023 World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh, PA, August 8-12 (ANA).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- The Currency Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, May 15-18, 2023 (Currency Research).
- High Security Printing - Latin American, Nassau, The Bahamas, June 5-7, 2023 (Renaissance).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 4-6. 2023 (Renaissance).
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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