News & Notes Volume XI, No. 26

December 9, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Visit to Notgeld.com

• 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