News & Notes Volume XI, No. 13

September 9, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Languages (especially multiple languages) on Currency

• Ireland's Pre-Euro Currency  (Brehon Academy). From 2023.
• The Tower of Babel Remembered Through Banknotes (Banknote World). From 2023.
• Language Hierarchies on Banknotes (IBNS). From 2017. Pdf at link
• Multilingual Banknotes (IBNS). From 2017. Pdf at link.
• The Bank's First Bilingual Notes (Bank of Canada Museum Blog). From 2019.
• Languages on Chinese Banknotes (Language Blog). From 2013.
• Banknote Oddities (pjsymes.com). These include misprints and misspelled words. From 2001.

Currency Coming and Going

• After September 30, some Libyan banknotes will become worthless (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Kazakhstan will retire older currency series (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Zambia will demonetize older notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Russian propaganda leaflets designed to look like hyrvnia banknotes (Reg Tech Times).
• So What Makes Crypto Different? (The Conversation).
• Dealing with damaged banknotes in the DR Congo (Africa News).
• Tradition and Technology on Bermuda's banknotes (IMF).
• KOMSCO sells a pen made from recycled banknotes (The Korea Times).
• A Safe Conduct Certificate from the Korean War (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Experimental notes from the Badische Bank (Geldscheine-online, in German).

The Business of Collecting

• Crown Currency offers some unusual denomination notes (PMG).
• Double denomination errors (Stack's Bowers).
• Celebrating Indonesia's national anthem (Banknote World).
• A big donation to the Higgins Museum (Dickinson County News).
• Notes on offer at the upcoming Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction (Stack's Bowers).
• September 2025 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• "Pawn Stars" and a rare Mormon banknote (Market Realist).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique, No. 255, September 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French).

New Banknote Issues

• Guatemala adds new security stripe to its 100 quetzales banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• A new "Iran Check" for 5 million rials (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• San Marino to produce souvenir banknotes of some sort (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Vicksburg Coin Show, Vicksburg, MS, Sep 12-13 (Coinshows-USA).
• Duncan Coin Show, Duncan, OK, Sep 12-13 (Coinshows-USA).
• National Battlefield Coin Show, Gettysburg, PA, Sep 12-13 (America's Coin Shows).
• Buena Park Coin Show, Buena Park, CA, Sep 13-14 (Pacific Expos).
• Midwest Coin Show, Sioux City, SD, Sep 13-14 (AMA Coins).
• Rare Coins of Raleigh Show, Raleigh, NC, Sep 13-14 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 13

• Burnaby, BC; Victoria, BC; Largo, FL; Okahumpka, FL; Pinellas Park, FL; Jasper, GA; Clarion, IA
  Grand Rapids, MI; Roseville, MN; Monroe City, MO; Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH
  Bellmead, TX; Boucherville, QC

​​      September 14

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN
  Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Toledo, OH; Pittsburgh, PA
  Telford, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, September 9 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, September 9 (HA)
• Stack's Around the Globe Auction, September 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Paper Money Auction, September 9 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Around the Globe Auction, September 10 (Stack's Bowers).
• Teutoburger Auction, 169, Part III, September 13 (Teutoburger Muenzauktion).
• Heritage U.S. Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, September 14 (HA).
• Crown Currency Auction 43, September 16 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Obsolete Currency Auction, September 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Alabama Obsolete Notes Auction, September 21 (HA).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Great American Coin and Collectibles Show, Rosemont, IL, September 23-27 (GACC).
• MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, September 26-28 (MIF).
• PAN Show,  Monroeville, PA, October 16-18 (PAN).
• Whitman Winter Expo, Baltimore, MD, November 6-8 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• ATMs disappearing in Bavaria (The European Conservative).
• Celebrating the Launch of Sri Lanka's 2000 Rupee Commemorative Currency Note (De La Rue).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• Identity Week America, Washington, D.C., September 10-11 (Identity Week).
• Optical and Digital Document Security, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17 (Reconnaissance).
• The Future of Cash Conference, Warsaw, Poland, November 3-5 (Future of Cash).
• High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-3 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing -EMEA, Rabat, Morocco, March 2-4, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 1-3, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Form).

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