

News & Notes Volume XI, No. 26
December 9, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
A Visit to Notgeld.com
Active website devoted to (mostly) German emergency currency. Many wonderful currency images. Basic website features are ungated, although some pages are available only to registered members of the German Notgeld Collectors Club. Restricted materials are designated by an asterisk (*).
- What is Notgeld?
- Verkehrsausgaben (general circulation notes).
- Serienscheine (notes issued for the collectors' market).
- Wertbestaendige notgeld (constant-value notes).
- Grossgeld (denominations above 1 mark).
- Austrian notgeld.
Currency Coming and Going
- Nepal's banknote, India's overreach (Outlook India).
- Could Paper Checks Be on the Way Out? (CNN).
- Discounted rumors about a banknote commemorating footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (World Soccer Talk).
- In a digital era, Russians still like physical money (Realnoe Vremya).
- Kazakhs can't use their own commemorative banknotes (EAD).
- Belarus ATMs rejecting some ruble banknotes (Nasha Niva).
- Cloudy With a Chance of Money (Korea JoongAng Daily).
- A Tale of Two Cities in Asia (Numismatic News).
- Zimbabwe: "better" ZiG notes nest year (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Iranians put their trust in gold (ABC News).
- Understanding Stablecoins, Departmental Paper 2025/009 (International Monetary Fund). Pdf available at link.
The Business of Collecting
- Anton Geiger, German notgeld expert, has passed away (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Results of Stack's November 2025 Showcase Auction (Coinweek).
- December 2025 Greensheet market analysis (Greysheet).
- Selections from Stack's upcoming December 2025 Hong Kong Auction (E-Sylum).
- The Civil War, viewed through national bank notes (Numismatic News).
- Lawrence B. Falater, 1935-2025 (Legacy).
- Rare Panamanian notes for sale (Coin World).
- Sell that silver! (Stack's Bowers).
- The Bavarian Bürgermark (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Ingmar Berman on Sweden's money (Banknote World).
- The Last King of Laos (Banknote World).
New Banknote Issues
- Marking Papua New Guinea's 50 years of progress (International Monetary Fund).
- Turkmenistan's new 1 manat, 5 manat, 10 manat, and 200 manat commemorative notes (Banknote News).
- Bangladesh's 500 taka note (Banknote News).
- The Republic of Guinea is considering the issue of 50,000 and 100,000 franc notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Mongolia commemorates the centennial of the tugruk (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- eSwatini introduces a new banknote family (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, December 12-14 (Coinshows-USA).
- Myrtle Beach Coin Show, Myrtle Beach, FL, December 12-13 (Myrtle Beach Coin Show).
- Rowan County Coin Club Show, Salisbury, NC, December 12-13 (Coinzip).
- Gallatin Coin Show, Gallatin, TN, December 12-13 (Coinshows-USA).
- West Suburban Coin Show, Countryside, IL, December 13-14 (Suburban Coin Shows).
- Annandale Coin Show, Annandale, VA, December 13-14 (Annandale Coin Show).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
December 13
- Okahumpka, FL; Pinellas Park, FL; Seminole, FL; Grand Rapids, MI; Roseville, MN; Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH
Schertz, TX; Olympia, WA
December 14
- Phoenix, AZ; Chino, CA; McClellan, CA; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Auburn, MA
Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Westlake, OH; Wilsonville, OR; Telford, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Auction, December 5-9 (HA).
- The Woking Collection of U.S. Banknotes, December 14 (GreatCollections).
- The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, December 14 (GreatCollections).
- 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).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, December 18 (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
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- 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 Texas Chick-fil-a tried to keep its customer's money (BroBible).
- A "whitewash" scam goes awry (The Olive Press).
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


