News & Notes Volume X, No. 48, May 13, 2025

From the Internet Bookshelf: Poets on (and a few poems about) Money

• Poets Aleksandër Stavre Drenova and Naim Frasheri on Albania's banknotes (Banknote World). Both from 2025.
• Chile's Gabriel Mistral (Banknote World). From 2025.
• Ukrainian Banknote Honouring Hryhorii Skovoroda (Coincraft). From 2025.
• Nizami Ganjavi, the Epic Persian Poet (Smithwick Numismatics). From 2024.
• Epigram for Wall Street, by Edgar Allan Poe [1845] (The Imaginative Conservative). From 2020.
• Lines Written on a Bank-Note, by Robert Burns [1786] (Public Domain Poetry).
• "Minnie" (SPMC). From 2021.
• Of Bards and Banknotes (National Trust for Scotland). From 2018.
• A Poet Emerges from the Cash Machine (The Times of Israel). And Israel's New Literary Currency (Tablet). Both from 2017.
• Lady on Banknotes [Lesya Ukrainka] (British Library). From 2013.
• Alykul Osmonov (National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic).
• Canto XLV, Ezra Pound (Poetry Foundation).

    Currency Coming and Going

• 100,000 of Nan Shepherd notes will buy her house (The Times).
• Switzerland makes bank with unredeemed banknotes (SWI).
• Old Jamaican cotton banknotes are on the way out (Black Enterprise).
• Ukraine may reorient its currency from the U.S. dollar to the Euro (Reuters).
• When the Euro takes over in Bulgaria (novinite).
• Travails of a Kenyan bank teller (TUKO).
• French Capital and Spanish Investment circa 1860 (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Hungary's Hyperinflation: When a Wheelbarrow of Money was Worth Nothing (Daily News Hungary).
• Armenia is retiring "second generation" notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Africa's Faustian Bargain with the International Monetary Fund (Tricontinental).
• The Towns that Invent Their Own Money (The State).

    The Business of Collecting

• GreatCollections offers Colorado national bank notes at auction (Greysheet).
• Ben Noble to speak on the history of national bank notes in Ontario County, NY (Finger Lakes Times).
• Collecting banknote errors (Numismatic News).
• CCG gets a bigger Munich office (PMG).
• Highlights of Stack's upcoming Collectors' Choice auction (Stack's Bowers).
• An 1863 $20 Gold Certificate on sale (Stack's Bowers).
• Iceland Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).

     New Banknote Issues

• What's New in Banknotes (Numismatic News).
• Namibia's "modified" N$50 banknote (Namibian).
• The DR's new 2,000 peso note enters circulation (Dominican Today).
• Kazakhstan's new commemorative (MRI Bankers' Guide).

​​   Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Augusta Coin Club Show, Grovetown, GA, May 16-17 (Augusta Coin Club).
• Sedalia Coin Show, Sedalia, MO, May 16-17 (Coinshows-USA).
• Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement, TX, May 16-17 (J Fitz Shows).
• Early American Coppers Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, May 16-18 (EACS).
• Arcadia Coin Show, Arcadia, CA, May 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• AMA Sioux Falls Show, Sioux Falls, SD, May 17-18 (AMA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 17

• Lafayette, IN; Owasso, MI; Peterborough, ON; Boucherville, QC; Lynchburg, VA

​​      May 18

• Phoenix, AZ; Vacaville, CA; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Peotone, IL; Orono, ME; New Baltimore, MI
• South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Clifton, NJ; Old Bridge, NJ; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH
• Sidney, OH; Toledo, OH; Westlake, OH; Langhorne, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Woonsocket, RI; Beaver Dam, WI

     Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• Archives International Auction 102, May 13 (AIA).
• Heritage Confederate Currency Auction, May 18 (HA).
• CGB Internet Auction, May 20 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Bowers Colonial Currency Auction, May 29 (Stack's Bowers).

​     Major Coin and Currency Shows

• PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 29-31 (PAN).
• 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

    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

•  Half-cut notes (Al Hakam).
• A big cache of fake CFA francs is seized in Dakar (Sene News).
• Selling a North Korean banknote attracts police attention (Korea Joong Ang Daily).
• Counterfeit Currency Gangs Undermine Syrian Economy (Enab Baladi).

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