News & Notes Volume XI, No. 1

June 17, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Treasury Notes of 1890 (Coin Notes)

• BEP History Fact Sheet- Treasury Coin Notes (BEP). From 2013.
• Origin and Demise of the Treasury Notes of 1890 & 1891 (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2022.
• The 1890 Grand Watermelon note (PCGS). From 2020.
• General George H. Thomas on $5 Treasury Notes of 1890-1891 (Stack's Bowers). From 2016.
• General James McPherson and the $2 Treasury Notes of 1890 & 1891 (Stack's Bowers). From 2014.
• John Marshall on $20 Treasury Notes of 1890 & 1891 (Stack's Bowers). From 2014.
• Withdrawal of the Treasury Notes of 1890 (JSTOR). Pdf at link. From 1898.

Currency Coming and Going

• Indonesia turns waste banknotes into athletic medals (Antara).
• Wait on those Jersey banknotes with King Charles (Jersey Evening Post).
• Promoting "physical cash" in Ireland and the U.K. (Irish Mirror).
• Euro currency shortages in Bulgaria at the changeover (Novinite.com).
• Cashlessness looms in Japan (PYMNTS).
• Thoughts for Your Penny (Econlib).
• The Patron Saint of Sound Money (Daily Reckoning).
• Germany's Zollverein [Customs Union] (the Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• The Series of 1902 Red Seal National Bank Notes (Stack's Bowers).
• The State of the World Paper Money Market (Stack's Bowers).
• Neils Bohr on Danish money (Banknote World).
• The 5,000 yen banknote featuring diplomat & author Nitobe Inazo (Banknote World).
• Some results from Stack's Canadian banknote auction (Numismatic News).

New Banknote Issues

• Bangladesh's new banknotes (Banknote World).
• Trinidad delays its revised 100 note with new coat of arms (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Gadsden Coin Club Show, Gadsden, AL, June 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
• PNW Collector Convention, Kennewick, WA, June 21-22 (PNW Shows).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      June 21

• Phoenix, AZ; Lincoln, IL

​​      June 22

• Van Nuys, CA; Greenacres, FL; Devens, MA; South St. Paul, MN; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY
• Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA; Mechanicsville, VA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, June 17 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, June 17 (HA).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16- 17 (HA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Noonans British and Irish Banknotes, June 25 (Noonans Mayfair).
• CGB Live Auction, July 8 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 8 (Stack's Bowers).

​Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 19-21 (Whitman Expos).
• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
• ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).
• Nashville Coin and Money Show, Nashville, TN, September 3-6 (IMEX).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Spectra Systems' substrate in Brazilian banknotes (Tipranks).
• De La Rue takeover seen in July (Printweek).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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 a Dinar--Half Trash (b92).
• A Toonie for Seven Cents (Canadian Coin News).

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