

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
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


