News & Notes Volume XI, No. 2
June 24, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Material on the Banknotes and Currency of Iran
- Checks of Bank Melli Iran (Zeno Festschrift). Pdf at link. From 2024.
- Toman or Rial? (DW). From 2021.
- Aesthetics and Politics of Redesigning Iranian Banknotes (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 2016.
- The Banknotes of the Imperial Bank of Persia [book notice] (ANS). From 2016.
- The Persian Banknote (riowang.blogspot.com). From 2015.
- ¡Viva la Revolución! [including Iran's] (PMG). From 2014.
- Iranian Banknotes During the Pahlavi Era (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 2013.
- Iranian Banknotes in Revolution and Turmoil (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 2013.
- Iran's 20 Rial Banknote, and Iran's 200 Rial Note (Paper Money). Pdfs at links. From 1977 and 1980.
Currency Coming and Going
- Curacao eases rules on obsolete currency redemption (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- The Penny Dilemma (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).
- The Dutch Support Cash Regardless of Whether They Use It (De Nederlandsche Bank).
- Charting the Renminbi's Rise as a Global Currency Deutsche Bank).
- Happy Birthday, Money (DNYUZ / New York Times). Should be ungated.
- Thomas J. Carroll, Gorton-Pew, and the National Bank of Gloucester (SPMC).
- Hyperinflation: Trauma and its Reconstruction (The ECB Blog).
- Imperial Preference as a Tariff Policy (The Tontine Coffee House).
The Business of Collecting
- Collection Inspiration: 11th Century Notables (PMG).
- Selections from the upcoming Crown Currency auction (PMG).
- What's on offer at Stack's Midyear 2025 paper money auction (Stack's Bowers).
- The Deceptive Rarity of Napier-Thompson $50 and $100 National Bank Notes (Stack's Bowers).
- Composer Carl Nielsen on Denmark's currency (Banknote World).
- Celebrating Sweden's King Gustav V (Banknote World).
- Stack's offers rare Lebanese note from the French Mandate period (PMG).
- BOOK: Norwegian Banknotes, 26th ed. (E-Sylum, trans. from Geldscheine-online).
- Heritage obsolete auction includes rare Minnesota note (PMG).
- Some results from GreatCollections' auction of Colorado notes (PMG).
- Commemorating Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King (Banknote World).
- Currency Portraits: Tupac Amaru II, the Last Inca (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- New Mauritius polymer banknotes in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Bolivia's modified 100 boliviano note (Banknote News).
- Trans-Dniester's new 50 ruble note (Banknote News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Collectorama Coin Show, Lakeland, FL, June 26-28 (Collectorama).
- Greater Chicago Coin Show, Tinley Park, IL, June 26-28 (Chicago Coin Show).
- Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville, TX, June 26-28 (Coinshows-USA).
- Colorado Springs Coin Show, June 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).
- Raleigh Money Expo, Raleigh, NC, June 27-29 (Raleigh Coin Club).
- The Valley Coin Show, Van Nuys, CA, June 28-29 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
June 28
June 29
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, June 24 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, June 24 (HA).
- Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16- 17 (HA).
- Noonans British and Irish Banknotes, June 25 (Noonans Mayfair).
- Lyn Knight Daniel Wong Collection Auction June 30 (Lyn Knight).
- CGB Live Auction, July 8 (CGB Numismatique).
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 8 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 9 (Stack's Bowers)
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 10 (Stack's Bowers).
- Crown Currency Live Auction 41, July 9 (Crown Currency).
- Stack's July 2025 Confederate Currency Auction, July 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Summer Fractional Currency Auction, July 20 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- 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).
- Great American Coin and Collectibles Show, Rosemont, IL, September 23-27 (GACC).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Malta gives regulatory OK to De La Rue takeover (ShareCast).
- The Caribbean Guilder wins Regional Best Banknote Series 2025 Award (Curacao Chronicle).
- Komori's Challenges in Security Printing (WhatTheyThink).
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).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2 (Reconnaissance).
From the Annals of Crime
- Counterfeit Detection: China 1940 20 Yuan (PMG).
- Catching Counterfeit at the Atlanta Fed (FRB Atlanta).
- Forgery cautions in Curacao (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Jamaican hotel worker caught swapping out guests' real cash for fake (The Star).
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
