News & Notes Volume X, No. 44
April 15, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
Airplanes and Aviation Themes on Banknotes
(and Just Banknotes in the Air)
- Let’s Remember the Litas. Darius and Girėnas on Litas Banknotes (Bank of Lithuania Money Museum). from 2023. See also Palwaukee Airport Featured on Lithuanian Banknote (Mich-Master). From 2003.
- Collection Inspiration: Modern Airplanes (PMG). From 2022.
- Collection Inspiration: Vintage Airplanes (PMG). From 2021.
- Assets in Flight: Libya's Flying Treasuries (C4ADS). From 2020.
- Great Plane Robbery Created Australian Specimens (Numismatic News). From 2019.
- Aviation and the Bank Note, Part 1 and Aviation and the Bank Note, Part 2 (IBNS). Pdfs at links. From 2017-2018.
- Bombing with Banknotes (The U.K. National Archive). From 2016.
- Vintage Aircraft on Australian Banknote (Transpress NZ). From 2010.
- Aviation and World Paper Money (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1996.
- D. B. Cooper Hijacking (FBI).
Currency Coming and Going
- FICO and Credit Scoring (The Tontine Coffee House).
- How the Euro Can Replace the Dollar (The American Prospect).
- Museum of American Finance relocates to Boston (MoAF).
- Is Spain banning 50 euro notes? (Euronews).
- There is a more hygienic way to do this (All HipHop).
- Easter on Notes and Coins (Czech National Bank). From 2023.
- The Portuguese passion for burying their banknotes (Euronews, in French).
The Business of Collecting
- A look at Stack's upcoming Maastricht sale (Stack's Bowers).
- Bermuda $5 note is IBNS's Banknote of the Year (Numismatic News).
- New Jersey colonial note fetches a high price at auction (Stack's Bowers).
- The Gutscheine of the Swakopmunder Buchhandlung (Stack's Bowers).
- A look forward to the CSNS convention (Coin World).
- The one thousand lira note: a virtual exhibition (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
- CCG Guidance on International Submissions and Tariffs (PMG).
- Will the International Coin Market Be Affected by the New U.S. Tariff Policy? (Coinsweekly).
- Tariffs Bring Market Turmoil (Numismatic News).
- Numismatic Industry Local and Afar Rocked by Pending U.S. Tariffs (Numismatic News).
- Indian and Caribbean notes offered at Lockdales auction (PMG).
New Banknote Issues
- Russia to add a flag to its banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- "Improved" ZiG notes are on the way (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Zambia's new 20 kwacha, 200 kwacha, and 500 kwacha notes (Banknote News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Sacramento Valley Coin Club Show, Sacramento, CA, April 17-19 (SacvalCC).
- New Hampshire Coin & Currency Expo, Manchester, NH, April 18-19 (NHcoinexpo).
- Waco Coin Club Show, Bellmead, TX, April 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
April 19
April 20
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Tuesday U.S. Currency Select Auction, April 15 (HA)
- Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, April 15 (HA)
- CGB Live Auction April 2025, April 15 (CGB Numismatique).
- Crown Currency Live Auction 38, April 16 (Crown Currency).
- Archives International Auction 101, April 23 (AIA).
- Heritage Spring 2025 Auction, April 27 (HA).
- Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 29-May 2 (HA).
- Lockdales Auction 292 PMG Graded Notes, May 8 (Lockdales Auctioneers).
- 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
- Atlas Holdings' takeover offer for De La Rue (Yahoo Finance). Also here (The Guardian).
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
- If it's Crypto, it's not Money Laundering (JP Koning).
- Fuzz and Cigy earn their doggy treats (D.C. News Now).
- Sean "Diddy" Combs new currency of choice (Yahoo Style).
- Assault via banknotes (Korea JoongAng Daily).
- A fake 50,000 lire "women's face" banknote (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
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
