News & Notes Volume XI, No. 25

December 2, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Five Articles by Steven Feller

• The Anatomy of a Confederate Note (Paper Money). From 2023.
• Confederate Quartermaster Stagecoach and Railroad Scrip (Paper Money). From 2022.
• British POW and Internee Camp Money (Paper Money). From 2021.
• Comprehensive Collection of World War II Camp Money--the Allied Camps (IBNS). From 2003.
• Comprehensive Collection of World War II Camp Money--the German Camps (IBNS). From 2003.

Currency Coming and Going

• Zimbabwe promises better banknotes in 2026 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• More Gaza banknote repairs (BBC).
• Afghanistan's  currency incineration campaign (Xinhua).
• South Africa denies banknote rumors (Africa Check).
• Her Face is on a Nigerian Banknote, but Her Work is Rarely Seen (New York Times).
• Protestors toss "blood money" in British pension divestment dispute (Waltham Forest Echo).
• Putting Hell Money in a Temple Donation Box (E-Sylum).
• The India-Nepal currency row (NDTV).
• Rural Land and New Money (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Gresham's Law and the "cash paradox" (Cash Essentials).

The Business of Collecting

• Titans of Tender: America's Ultra-High Denomination Banknotes (Coinweek).
• Stack's Bowers Showcases Canadian Notes (Canadian Coin News).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 258, December 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French).
• BOOK: Siege Notes of the World, 1793-1913 (E-Sylum).
• BOOK: Paper Money of East Bavaria, Vol. 2 (Geldscheine-online, book and book notice in German).
• Selections from Stack's upcoming Confederate paper sale (E-Sylum).
• Collection Inspiration: Indigenous Americans (PMG).
• Continental currency offered in Heritage sale (PMG).
• Botswana's 50 pula note commemorating the 2024 Olympics (Banknote World).
• Uruguayan Artist Joaquín Torres García on a banknote (Banknote World).
• A. Karamitsos offers Greek specimen note (PMG).
• Spink offers a Ming Dynasty note that is older than itself (PMG).
• Stack's Bowers acquires Long Beach Expo (Coinworld).
• Thomas Muentzer--Misunderstood Visionary or Delusionary Zealot? (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• "Live Long, and Prosper" (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Fiji rolls out new banknotes (Fijivillage). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Fiji Times).
• Nepal's new, Chinese-produced banknotes feature a modified map, to India's displeasure (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Turkmenistan's polymer commemoratives (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bangladesh's new Tk 500 notes (The Business Standard).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Sarasota Coin Show, Sarasota, FL, December 4-6 (Sarasota Coin Show).
• Visalia Coin Show, Visalia, CA, December 5-6 (Coinshows-USA).
• Shenandoah Valley Coin and Stamp Show, Weyers Cave, WV, December 5-6 (Coinshows-USA).
• Cape Fear Coin Club, Fayetteville, NC, December 6-7 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      December 6

• Phoenix, AZ; South San Francisco, CA; Panama City, FL; Tampa, FL; Clarkston, MI; Joplin, MO; Bismarck, ND
  Knoxville, TN; Kent, WA

​​      December 7

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Mattoon, IL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Riverside, IA
  Cockeysville, MD; Dedham, MA; Wyandotte, MI; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH; Pittsburgh, PA
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, December 2 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, December 2 (HA)
• 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).
• The Shanghai Surprise Collection of Asian Banknotes, December 7 (GreatCollections).
• The Woking Collection of U.S. Banknotes, December 7 (GreatCollections).
• The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, December 7 (GreatCollections).
• 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).
• Spink World and British Banknote Auction, December 16 (Spink).

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

• Nepal's new MOU with China Banknote Minting & Printing (NepalSamaj).
• Assessing Epoxy-Acrylate/Chitosan Films for Banknote Coatings (MDPI).
• Crane NXT looks forward to 2026 (Numismatic News).
• Spectra Systems' sensor maintenance deal (Shareprices.com).
• KOMSCO releases "Year of the Horse" Currency Intaglio Print (Asia Business Daily).

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

• A trail of banknotes led to the thief (Daily Record).
• Counterfeit CFA franc operation is shut down (Seneweb).
• Counterfeit Detection: Lousy Lions and Terrible Tigers (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