News & Notes Volume XI, No. 15

September 23, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Weapons and Implements of War on Currency

• The Khanjar Dagger on Omani banknotes (Banknote World). From 2024.
• Fierce Britannia (Bank of England Museum). From 2022.
• Collection Inspiration: Battles (PMG).
• Massachusetts Colonial "Sword in Hand" Notes (Stack's Bowers).
• Firearms on Banknotes (Numismatic Notes With Benjamin). Youtube video, 9 mins.
• Weapons of War Made Out of Money (Recycle Nation). From 2011.

Currency Coming and Going

• Ghanaian deejay feels disrespected by small-denomination currency (YEN).
• A Polish perspective on the "war on cash" (Warsaw Business Journal).
• Liberia's "Clean Note" campaign (Front Page Africa).
• Older Costa Rican notes are losing their legal tender (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Russian drones scatter currency-like leaflets (ANTIKOR).
• Printing chaos in Libya (Middle East Monitor).
• A push to honor Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah on the 500 cedi banknote (Modern Ghana).
• Did a math problem illustrated with Turkish banknotes insult Atatürk? (Haberler).
• A debit card that could store "quantum money" (New Scientist).
• The Bank of England's benches made from recycled banknotes (Wallpaper).
• Qualms about the demise of Social Security paper checks (Government Technology).
• Creditanstalt and the Global Depression (Tontine Coffee House).
• History's Warning on Political Influence on the Fed (DNB).
• "Banana Money" in post WWII Asia (Scroll.in).

The Business of Collecting

• A mysterious Clark Gruber note (Numismatic News).
• Colorado Mining Notes (E-Sylum).
• Gold certificates sell at Stack's auction (PMG).
• Horses on Currency - I (Numismatic News).
• Stack's offers Emperor Norton bonds (Stack's Bowers).
• Scandinavian notes from from the L. E. Bruun Collection (PMG).
• Heritage offers high-denomination notes (PMG).
• Stack's offers Asian rarities (PMG).
• Collection Inspiration: Orchids (PMG).
• Highlights of Crown Currency Live Auction 44 (PMG).
• Note of the Month: Turkmenistan 100 Manats (PMG).
• Three rare Indian specimen notes (Stack's Bowers).
• Argentina's hyperinflationary Austral (Banknote World).
• Künker offers Dutch notes from the Beuth Collection (PMG).
• Ukraine's banknote commemorating poet Lesya Ukrainka (Banknote World).
• Notfried's Notes (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Brunei plans new currency for 2026 (New Straits Times). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Sacramento Valley Coin Club Show, Sacramento, CA, Sept 25-27 (SVCC).
• Fort Walton Beach Coin Show, Fort Walton Beach, FL, Sept 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 27

• Trussville, AL; Naugatuck, CT; New Smyrna Beach, FL; West St. Paul, MB; Joplin, MO; St. Charles, MO
  Bath, NY; Guelph, ON; New Freedom, PA

​​      September 28

• San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Peotone, IL; Devens, MA; Livonia, MI; St. Cloud, MN; Winona, MN
  Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH; Westlake, OH

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, September 23 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, September 23 (HA)
• Archives International Auction 106, September 24 (AIA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, September 25 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fractional Currency Auction, September 28 (HA).
• Lyn Knight Auction, September 30 (Lyn Knight).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Hong Kong World Paper Money Auction, October 4 (HA).
• Heritage GACC U.S. Currency Signature Auction, October 7-10 (HA).
• Heritage GACC Platinum Session, October 10 (HA).
• Stack's Colonial Currency Auction, October 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, October 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, October 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, October 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, October 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's L. E. Bruun Collection Auction, October 28 (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

• Crane NXT outlook for 2026 (AInvest).
• KOMSCO's "Golden Pen" (The Korea Times).
• Philippines promotes abaca use for overseas banknote production (Philtar Global).
• Koenig & Bauer's new Protection Initiative (Printing Impressions).
• Cash resilience (World Crunch).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Bag of fake cash found in Welsh town (Wales Online).
• BEAC minimizes reports of counterfeit banknotes (Business in Cameroon).
• North Korea's counterfeiting problem (Daily NK).
• Counterfeit Detection: Wherever Paper Money Goes, Forgers Follow (PMG)

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