News & Notes Volume X, No. 45
April 22, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
--Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--
Popes on Notes and Sundry Vatican Themes
- Portuguese artist protests papal visit with a banknote carpet (Reuters). From 2023.
- Paper Banknotes from the Papal States (Coinweek). From 2021.
- Collection Inspiration: Saints [Including Pope John Paul II] (PMG). From 2021.
- Italian Faces [Including the Vatican's Scala Regia] (PMG). From 2019.
- Pope Francis: Love of Money is Idolatry (Archdiocese of Malta). From 2015.
- Poland's PJP II numismatic product (Banknote News). From 2006.
- Paper Money in the Papal State (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 1994.
- Commemorate Pope's Visit to Quebec (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 1984.
- A History of the Vatican Bank (World Finance).
- The Vatican Bank: Conforming to Caritas in Veritate? (Seven Pillars Institute).
Currency Coming and Going
- UNESCO Sites on Indian Currency (Times of India).
- Hong Kong, Sterling, and the Dollar (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Playboy Chips Will Not Be Redeemed (ESylum).
- Nigeria: Fake banknotes are fake news (finimize).
- Mars or Mercury? (CEPR).
- Keep cash in your emergency kits (Cash Essentials).
The Business of Collecting
- The future is here: fractional numismatic ownership (Greysheet).
- Collection Inspiration: Coins on Notes (PMG).
- Note of the Month: Japan 100 Yen (PMG).
- Stack's Bowers offers "Printer's Models" (PMG).
- Heritage offers high-denomination FRNs at upcoming auction (PMG).
- Results from Stack's Spring Showcase Auction (Coinweek).
- DOGE vs. U.S. Mint (Coin World).
- Heritage Auction's Currency News, April 18, 2025 (HA).
- Spink sells Polish specimen notes (Numismatic News).
- Celebrating Suriname's Anton de Kom (Banknote News).
- Benito Perez Galdos on Spanish currency (Banknote News).
- Some results from Noonan's March auction (PMG).
- French commodity vouchers in occupied Saarland (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- A mysterious 50 pfennig note from Baden (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- New notes on the way from Cape Verde (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville, TX, April 24-26 (Coinshows-USA).
- Richmond Coin Club Show, Richmond, VA, April 24-26 (Richmond Coin Club).
- Vienna Coin and Stamp Show, Vienna, VA, April 24-26 (Coinzip).
- Coin and Comic Book Show, Farmingdale, NJ, April 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).
- Scranton Coin Show, Pittston, PA, April 26-27 (NEPA Coin Clubs).
- Regina Coin Club Spring Show, Regina, SK, April 26-27 (Canadian Coin News).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
April 26
April 27
- San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Berwyn, IL; Devens, MA; Livonia, MI; South St Paul, MN
- Hackettstown, NJ; Truro, NS; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH; Westlake, OH; Pickering, ON
- Trevose, PA; Rothschild, WI; Bridgeport, WV
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Tuesday U.S. Currency Select Auction, April 22 (HA)
- Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, April 22 (HA)
- Archives International Auction 101, April 23 (AIA).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Auction, April 24 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Spring 2025 Auction, April 27 (HA).
- Lyn Knight Auction, April 28 (Lyn Knight).
- Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 29-May 2 (HA).
- Spink World Banknotes Auction, May 7 (Spink).
- 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).
- Heritage Fractional Currency Showcase Auction, May 11 (HA).
- Stack's Bowers World Collector's Choice Auction, Part I, May 12 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Bowers World Collector's Choice Auction, Part II, May 13 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Confederate Currency Auction, May 18 (HA).
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
- A takeover battle for De La Rue (MSN).
- Portugal's 2024 report on cash issuance (Central Bank of Portugal).
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
- Gambian police seize fake CFA francs (All Africa).
- $500 million doesn't go as far as it used to (The Standard).
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
