News & Notes Volume XI, No. 24

November 25, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Another Visit to the Federal Reserve History Website

• Interest Rate Controls (Regulation Q). From November 2025.
• Cash Services, from 1914 to the present. From December 2023.
• Continental Illinois: The Bank that Was Too Big to Fail. From May 2023.
• Emergency Lending to Nonbank Borrowers. From May 2022.
• The First Bank of the United States. From December 2015.
• The Federal Reserve's Role During World War I. From November 2013.
• Nixon Ends Gold Convertibility. From November 2013.
   

Currency Coming and Going

• Iran's currency to lose four zeros (Iran International).
• The State Bank of Vietnam's currency exhibit (Saigon News).
• “Do not squeeze the cedi, do not crumple the cedi, do not write on it" (Citi Newsroom).
• Tanzania calls for better treatment of its banknotes (All Africa).
• Nigerian central bank faulted for violating its own Clean Note Policy (Economic Confidential).
• The axolotl-themed banknote popular in Mexico (The Guardian).
• Public opposition to a new, higher denomination Kenyan banknote (TUKO).
• Ohio considers law requiring cash acceptance by businesses (IJR).
• The Chaotic Exit of the U.S. Penny (Cash Essentials).
• Schröders, Hamburg, and London (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• All I want for Christmas is -- in-game currency (Games Industry).
• The World's Biggest Cryptocurrencies in 2025 (Visual Capitalist).
• Another push for a Quebec currency (Canadian Coin News).

The Business of Collecting

• Steve Feller, 1951-2025 (E-Sylum).
• An Unassuming Rarity from the Philippines (Stack's Bowers).
• Rare colonial signatures (Stack's Bowers).
• The Forgotten Rupee Banknotes of German East Africa (Banknote World).
• Bolivia's bicentennial banknote (Banknote World).
• November 2025 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• A banknote designer auctions his collection (The Reading Chronicle).
• Selections from Archives International Sale 108 (E-Sylum).
• Selections from Stack's Bowers December 2025 Obsolete Currency Auction (E-Sylum).
• Japan's Itagaki Taisuke on a 50 sen note (Banknote World).
• Gaëtan Duval on Mauritian currency (Banknote World).
• American Numismatic Society relocates to Toledo, OH (Numismatic News).

New Banknote Issues

• Thailand introduces its 50 baht and 100 baht banknotes (The Nation). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Syria's new, stripped-down banknotes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Bhutan's new polymer banknotes for 2026 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• New South Sudan currency supplies are on the way (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Poland's 20 zloty commemorative (Banknote News).
• Kazakhstan's new 1,000 tenge note (Banknote News).
• Botswana's 50 pula commemorative (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Westchester Coin and Stamp Show, Tarrytown, NY November 28-29 (Coinshows-USA).
• Black Friday Coin Show, Glenpool, OK, November 28-29 (Coinshows-USA).
• Thanksgiving Fall Battlefield Coin Show, Gettysburg, PA, November 28-29 (Americas Coin Shows).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      November 29

• Orange, CT; Owatonna, MN; Lévis, QC

​​      November 30

• San Fernando, CA; Van Nuys, CA; Westport, MA; Flemington, NJ; Cincinnati, OH; Bridgeport, WV
  Mississauga, ON
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, November 25 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, November 25 (HA)
• Archives International Auction 108, November 25 (AIA).
• CGB Internet Auction, November 25 (CGB Numsimatique).
• Noonans World Banknote Auction, November 25-27 (Noonans Mayfair).
• The Woking Collection of U.S. Banknotes, November 30 (GreatCollections).
• The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, November 30 (GreatCollections).
• Stack's Canadian Banknote Sale, December 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency Auction 46, December 2 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Confederate Currency Auction, December 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Auction, December 5-9 (HA).
• Heritage Colonial Currency Auction, December 7 (HA).
• Stack's Obsolete Currency Auction, December 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Collectors Choice Auction Session A, December 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Collectors Choice Auction, Session B, December 13 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 71st FUN Show, Orlando, FL, January 8-11, 2026 (FUN).
• 54th NYINC, New York City, January 16-18, 2026 (NYINC).
• ANA's National Money Show, Savannah, GA, February 26-28, 2026 (ANA).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• KOMSCO's currency accessories (The Asia Business Daily).
• Koenig & Bauer's plan to promote financial literacy (Print Monthly).
• Note Printing Australia's new training facility (Sprinter).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• The History of Scams (BBC).

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