News & Notes Volume XI, No. 17

October 7, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

The Currency and Banknotes of Australia

• History of Banknotes in Australia (Reserve Bank of Australia).
• People on the Banknotes (Reserve Bank of Australia).
• Australia's $10 commemorative from 1988 (PMG). From 2024.
• The History Behind the Australia 2 Dollars Banknote (Banknote World). From 2024.
• David Unaipon and the 50 dollar note (Banknote World). From 2024.
• Banking and Banknotes Had a Shaky Start in Australia (PMG). From 2020.
• Australian Banks Endured a Depression in the 1890s (PMG). From 2020.
• There's Nothing 'Rum' about NSW's First Official Banknote (Daily Telegraph). From 2015.
• Shinplasters of Outback Australia (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 2006.
• Famed Australian Lottery Spawns Special Postal Note (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1987.
• David Malangi, 1927-1999 (Currency Den).

Currency Coming and Going

• Chechen elements on the new Russian banknote? (O.C. Media).
• Iranian parliament approves redenomination plan (Tehran Times).
• Cash usage trends in Europe (Euro News).
• What Korea's scrapped banknotes amount to (The Korea Times).
• Oman extends banknote redemption deadline (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The Bank and the Bullionists, Part I (Tontine Coffee-House).
• An Historical Perspective on Stablecoins (Liberty Street Economics).
• Dutch Treat: The Netherlands' Exorbitant Privilege in the Eighteenth Century (Liberty Street Economics).

The Business of Collecting

• A rare Hawaiian territorial national bank note (Stack's Bowers).
• Enjoying the Wildlife (Stack's Bowers).
• The Ireland 5 pound note featuring sister Catherine McAuley (Banknote World).
• Historian Jakob Burkhardt on a Swiss banknote (Banknote World).
• Collecting Checks (Numismatic News).
• A national bank note from Boonton, New Jersey (Numismatic News).
• October 2025 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• A $7 Continental Currency note with provenance (Coinweek).
• "Curators' Picks" from the Heritage GACC auction (HA).
• A report on the Maastricht Paper Money Fair (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The 20 Reichsmark note of 1924 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• BOOK: Indian Banknotes 2025 (E-Sylum).

New Banknote Issues

• Namibia's new currency in circulation (All Africa).
• The new Namibian 10 dollar, 20 dollar, 50 dollar, 100 dollar, and 200 dollar notes (Banknote News).
• False claims about new Indonesian banknotes (Yahoo).
• Changes to the Qatari  1 riyal note (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Denver Coin Expo, Denver, CO, Oct 9-11 (Rocky Mountain Expos).
• Louisville Coin Show, Louisville, KY, Oct 9-11 (Louisville Coin Club).
• Contra Costa Coin & Collectibles Show, Walnut, CA, Oct 10-11 (Diablo Numismatic Society).
• Pensacola Coin & Currency Show, Milton, FL, Oct 10-11 (Coinshows-USA).
• Norman-Goldsby Coin Show, Goldsby, OK, Oct 10-11 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Utah Coin Show, Sandy, UT, Oct 10-11 (Utah Coin Shows).
• Virginia Beach-Tidewater Coin Show, Virginia Beach, VA, Oct 10-11 (Tidewater Coin Club).
• Northwest Coin Club Fall Money Show, Brooklyn Center, MN, Oct 10-12 (NWCC).
• Arcadia Coin etc. Show, Arcadia, CA, Oct 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Wilkes-Barre Coin Club Show, Pittston, PA, Oct 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      October 11

• Clearwater, FL; Largo, FL; Pinellas Park, FL; Jackson, MI; Colts Neck, NJ; Hamilton, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH
  Marietta, OH; Florence, SC

​​      October 12

• Phoenix, AZ; Chino, CA; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Fairfield, IL
  Indianapolis, IN; East Lansing, MI; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Utica, NY
  Wapakoneta, OH; Rickreall, OR; Falls Creek, PA; Telford, PA
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, October 7 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, October 7 (HA)
• Heritage GACC U.S. Currency Signature Auction, October 7-10 (HA).
• Spink Hong Kong, Macao, World Banknote Auction, October 8 (Spink).
• Heritage GACC Platinum Session, October 10 (HA).
• Stack's Colonial Currency Auction, October 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, October 16 (HA).
• Stack's October 2025 Collectors Choice Auction-Agnew, October 16 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, October 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, October 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fall U.S. Currency Obsolete Auction, October 19 (HA).
• 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 October 2025 World Paper Money Auction, October 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's L. E. Bruun Collection Auction, October 28 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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

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

• Respect Namibian currency--or else (Windhoek Observer).
• Twice Tried, Twice Hung, Twice Buried (Birmingham Live).

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