News & Notes Volume X, No. 43

                                     April 8, 2025

   From the Internet Bookshelf 

               --Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--           

                                            Fort Knox

• What to Know About Fort Knox's Gold Depository (Miltary.com). From 2025.
• How Much Gold is in Fort Knox? (Visual Capitalist). From 2025.
• The Gold at Fort Knox Was Stolen from Americans (Mises Institute). From 2025.
• The National Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox (Coinweek). From 2024.
• Fort Knox, FDR's Impregnable Monument to Politics as Theater (SouthCoast Today). From 2012.
• Inside Fort Knox: The Secrets, Security, and the Significance of the U.S. Gold Depository (AURONUM).
• Fort Knox Bullion Depository (U.S. Mint).

    Currency Coming and Going

• Higher U.S. denominations? (Numismatic News).
• Australian Monarchist League pushes to keep King Charles in circulation (7news).
• Chemistry on currency (Chemical & Engineering News).
• Tourists in Phuket flaunt their fakes (The Phuket News).
• Guernsey redesigns its banknotes (Islandfm). King Charles loses out (BBC).
• Jamaica's old cotton-based banknotes will lose their legal tender status (loop). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Erbil museum celebrates Iraqi currency (shafaq).
• Paris Club and Sovereign Debt Restructuring (The Tontine Coffee-House).

    The Business of Collecting

• Polish notes from the Lucow Collection (PMG).
• Stack's World Paper Money Update (Stack's Bowers).
• Maryland's "Gunpowder" notes (Stack's Bowers).
• Results of Heritage's recent World Paper Money Signature auction (Coinweek).
• China "Foreign Banks" notes showcased in upcoming Stack's auction (Coinweek).
• Heritage offers the Balmoral Collection (Coin World).
• BOOK: Banknotes of Equatorial Africa (CGB Numismatique). Book notice, and book, in French.
• German "Freigeld" from 1940 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Banknotes repurposed for advertising and propaganda purposes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Banknote forgeries to fool collectors (Geldscheine-online, in German).

     New Banknote Issues

• Nigeria denies issuing new banknotes (Nigerian Bulletin).
• Zimbabwe plans new ZiG notes (Bulawayo News).
• Zambia's 50 and 100 kwacha notes have been delayed (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ukraine's currency faces a redesign (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Republic of Guinea to issue a new 20,000 franc note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Libya's new 20 dinar polymer (Banknote News).
• Curacao's and St. Maarten's new 10 guilder, 20 guilder, 100 guilder, and 200 guilder notes (Banknote News).

​​   Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Fresno Coin Show, Fresno, CA, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Fort Dodge Coin Club Show, Fort Dodge, IA, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Las Vegas Coin Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Westchester Coin and Stamp Show, Tarrytown, NY, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang, OK, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Orange Coin Show, Orange, TX, April 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Northern Utah Coin Show, Ogden, UT, April 11-12 (Utah Coin Shows).
• Georgia Numismatic Association Coin Show, Dalton, GA, April 11-13 (GNA).
• PNNA Spring Convention, Tukwila, WA, April 11-13 (PNNA).
• Edmonton Spring Coin Show, Edmonton, AB, April 12-13 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      April 12

• Largo, FL; Bloomington, IN; Timonium, MD; Grand Rapids, MI; Highland, MI; Roseville, MN; Colts Neck, NJ
• Broadview Heights, OH; Marietta, OH; Watertown, SD; Paris, TX; Norfolk, VA

​​      April 13

• Phoenix, AZ; Cupertino, CA; Orange, CT; Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Plantation, FL; Countryside, IL
• Auburn, MA; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Liverpool, NY; Melville, NY
• Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA; Appleton, WI; Oak Creek, WI

     Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Tuesday U.S. Currency Select Auction, April 8 (HA)
• Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, April  8 (HA)
• Spink World Banknotes Auction, April 10 (Spink).
• Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong Auction,  Session A, April 10 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong Auction,  Session B, April 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong Auction, Peter Che Collection, Session C, April 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong Auction, Session D, April 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong Auction, Session E, April 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Live Auction April 2025, April 15 (CGB Numismatique).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 38, April 16 (Crown Currency).
• Heritage Spring 2025 Auction, April 27 (HA).
• Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 29-May 2 (HA).
• Stack's Bowers Maastricht Auction, May 8 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Bowers Maastricht Auction, the Windsor Collection, May 9 (Stack's Bowers).

​     Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 86th Annual CSNS Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-26, 2025 (CSNS).
• Denver Coin Expo, Denver, CO, May 1-3 (Rocky Mountain Expos).
• MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, May 2-4 (MIF Events).
• 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

• De La Rue's spinoff of its authentication division due next month (Printweek).
• Syria turns to Europe for its currency printing (Enab Baladi). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).

    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

• Europol brings down counterfeiting scheme (Europol).
• Fake currencies and genuine boxes in Ghana (Daily Guide Network).
• More Naira abuse (Africa News).
• A April Fool's joke goes bad for Ohio man (Scioto Post).

                                             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