News & Notes Volume X, No. 46

                                    April 29, 2025

   From the Internet Bookshelf 

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

                       Banking and Currency Themes from State Historical Societies

• Frederick Lothrop Ames and the Banks of Easton (Easton [MA] Historical Society). From 2025.
• History of Whiting's Banks, Part One (Whiting-Robertsdale [IN] Historical Society). From 2025.
• Two Crimes at Derby's Bank (Derby [KS] Historical Society & Museum). From 2022.
• 19th Century Banking in Monroe County (Monroe County [PA] Historical Society). From 2016.
• Banking in Early Geneva (Historic Geneva [NY]). From 2014.
• The First National Bank of Moscow (Latah County [ID] Historical Society). From 2014.
• The First National Bank of Corsicana (Navarro County [TX] History). First published 1971.
• From Bartering to Banking (Heritage Frederick [MD]).
• The State Bank of Table Rock (Table Rock [NE] Historical Society).
• The History of the Alma National Bank (Wabaunsee County [KS] Historical Society & Museum).
• First National Bank (Blanchester [OH] Area Historical Society).

    Currency Coming and Going

• Should Israel invalidate "Gaza banknotes?" (Jerusalem Post). Bank of Israel says there are no plans to. (BOI).
• Why Should I Care if the U.S. Dollar Falls? (BBC).
• If the U.S. left the IMF (Reuters).
• Bangladesh halts circulation of notes featuring Mujibur Rahman (Financial Express).
• The Currencies and Monetary Systems of Pre-Colonial Africa (African History Extra).
• Trump-proofing Canada (JP Koning).
• Ruining the Money (Lawrence W. Reed).
• Argentine politicians propose a banknote honoring the Pope (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The European Parliament, Economic and Monetary Union, and the Maastricht Treaty (European Parliament). Pdf at link.
• Curacao faces problems with old banknote redemption (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Paper Money as a Weapon of War (FEE).
• Financing Payments for Slavery Abolition (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• BOOK: Supernote (Coinweek).
• Make Money Great Again (Numismatic News).
• Emergency currency issues of the City of Limburg (Geldscheine-online, in German).

    The Business of Collecting

• Understanding Pick Numbers (Banknote World).
• Domingo Sarmiento on Argentine banknotes (Banknote World).
• Cape Verde's poet Jorge Barbosa (Banknote World).
• The Life of King Faisal II of Iraq (Stack's Bowers).
• The Journal of a California Banker (Stack's Bowers).
• The Road to Polymer Banknotes (Numismatic News).
• More tariff twists (Greysheet).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 252, May 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French).

     New Banknote Issues

• Lebanon may see new, higher denomination banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Papua New Guinea to issue 50 kina and 100 kina commemorative notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Another Trans-Dniester numismatic product (Banknote News).
• South Africa plans new banknote designs (Royal Esquire Club).

​​   Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Oklahoma Numismatic Society Spring Show, Moore, OK, May 2-3 (Coinshows-USA).
• Houston Spring Coin Show, Houston, TX, May 2-3 (Coinshows-USA).
• San Joaquin Valley Coin Show, Modesto, CA, May 2-4 (Coinshows-USA).
• Cape Fear Coin Club Show, Fayetteville, NC, May 3-4 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 3

• Naugatuck, CT; Tampa, FL; Jackson, MI; St. Anthony, MN; Lamar, MO; Lexington, NC
• Bath, NY; Canton, OH; Palmyra, PA; Knoxville, TN; Cross Lanes, WV

​​      May 4

• Anaheim, CA; Norwich, CT; Hollywood, FL; Maitland, FL; Marietta, GA; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN
• Cockeysville, MD; Dedham, MA; Southfield, MI; Wyandotte, MI; Maple Grove MN; Independence, MO
• Freemont, NE; Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH; Portage, WI

     Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• CGB Internet Auction, May 20 (CGB Numismatique).

​     Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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

• Note Printing Australia affirms its ties with Papua New Guinea (Post-Courier).
• Komori gets large equipment order from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (What They Think).
• Koenig and Bauer reports a loss for 2024 (Packaging South Asia).

    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

                                             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