News & Notes Volume XI, No. 29
December 30, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Time Depicted on Currency
- Collection Inspiration: Clock Towers (PMG). From 2025.
- Note of the Month: Mexican Peso [Aztec calendar] (PMG). From 2024.
- What Time Is It on the $100 Bill? (Paper Money). From 2024.
- The Beginning of Time (Banknote World). From 2023.
- Chinese Zodiac New Year Commemorative Banknotes (Bank of China). From 2012.
Currency Coming and Going
- Croatia's lessons for Bulgaria on its pending euro changeover (Novinite).
- Bulgaria ends redemption of old banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- New cash transportation rules for Argentine travelers (MRI Bankers' Guide).
The Business of Collecting
- .Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mongolia's national currency (Banknote World).
- Kwame Nkrumah on Ghanaian banknotes (Banknote World).
- Space-flown paper money (Stack's Bowers).
- Silver's "shocking new heights" (Stack's Bowers).
- Funereal New Year's Wishes from Charles H. J. Truman, 1908 (SPMC).
- More tributes to Hugh Shull (E-Sylum).
- Learning economics from Star Trek (Study Finds).
New Banknote Issues
- Russia's new 1000 ruble note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Bosnia-Herzegovina plans "improved" banknotes for 2028 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Zimbabwe's plans for 2026 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Azerbaijan rearranges its 50 manat banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (MENAFN).
- Syria's redenominated banknotes to appear in 2026 (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Daily Sabah).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Mustang Coin Show, Mustang, OK, January 2-3 (Coinshows-USA).
- Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement, TX, January 2-3 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
January 3
January 4
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Lyn Knight Auction, December 30 (Lyn Knight).
- CGB Live Auction, January 6 (CGB Numismatique).
- Heritage FUN U.S. Currency Auction, January 13-16 (HA).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session A, January 16 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session B, January 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session C, January 20 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session D, January 21 (Stack's Bowers).
- The Ibrahim Salem Collection of Syria and Lebanon, February 12 (Noonans Mayfair).
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).
- National History Stock Certificate and Bond Show, Herndon, VA, January 23-24, 2026 (Stock and Bond Show).
- 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
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
