News & Notes Volume XI, No. 3
July 1, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Sea Creatures on Currency (and other Piscatorial Themes)
- Collection Inspiration: Ocean Wildlife (PMG). From 2022.
- Discover the World Under the Sea (Caribbean Guilder).
- Shipwrecks and Currencies (Shipwreck Centre and Maritime Museum).
- Turning Bristol Pound notes into fish (Bristol 24/7). From 2022.
- The Intelligent Evolution House Note (Crane Currency). From 2023.
- Shell Money as the Original Currency in the American Colonies (Library of Congress Blogs). From 2024.
- World Oceans Day: Banknotes Washed Ashore (Cash Essentials). From 2019.
- Operation Fish (Bank of Canada Museum). From 2018.
Currency Coming and Going
- Libya detects unauthorized banknotes (Libya Observer).
- What to Do if a Cash Machine Eats Your Money in Spain (Euroweekly News).
- Palestinians consider an alternative to the shekel (Palestine News Network).
- Ugandans, please treat your currency better (New Vision).
- All the old British cash that hasn't been turned in (BBC).
- A commemorative rain of cash in Detroit (Yahoo News).
- Thirty-five years ago, the East German mark disappeared (Public).
- Financial Advertising Through Market Cycles (The Tontine Coffee House).
The Business of Collecting
- BOOK: United States Paper Money Errors, 5th ed (Greysheet).
- Germany, the German language, and American currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- In Session at the Washington Court House, Part 2 (Numismatic News).
- Selections from Stack's upcoming Confederate paper money sale (E-Sylum).
- Selections from Stack's upcoming world paper money sale (E-Sylum).
- On Continental Currency (E-Sylum).
- Types of Iranian paper money (Stack's Bowers).
- An 1882 $1,000 gold certificate for sale (Stack's Bowers).
- A banknote featuring Bulgaria's Vasil Levski (Banknote World).
- Malawi's Rose Chibambo (Banknote World).
- CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 254, July 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
New Banknote Issues
- Papua New Guinea commemorates 50 years of independence (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- New Mauritius 100 rupee polymer (Banknote News).
- Abkhazia's new 50 apsar note (Banknote News).
- Slow adoption of Japan's new banknote issuese (The Japan Times).
- Bangladesh's new banknote series (Keesing Platform).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Austin Coin and Currency Show, Austin, TX, July 4-5 (J. Fitz Shows).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
July 5
July 6
- Anaheim, CA; Hollywood, FL; Maitland, FL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA
- Wyandotte, MI; Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, July 1 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, July 1 (HA).
- CGB Live Auction, July 8 (CGB Numismatique).
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 8 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 9 (Stack's Bowers)
- Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 10 (Stack's Bowers).
- Spink's World, British, and Irish Banknotes Auction, July 10 (Spink).
- Crown Currency Live Auction 41, July 9 (Crown Currency).
- Stack's July 2025 Confederate Currency Auction, July 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Summer Fractional Currency Auction, July 20 (HA).
- Heritage Summer U.S. Currency Auction, July 27 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
- ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).
- Nashville Coin and Money Show, Nashville, TN, September 3-6 (IMEX).
- Great American Coin and Collectibles Show, Rosemont, IL, September 23-27 (GACC).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- Identity Week America, Washington, D.C., September 10-11 (Identity Week).
- Optical and Digital Document Security, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17 (Reconnaissance).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2 (Reconnaissance).
From the Annals of Crime
- Currency Swap Scam (DevDiscource).
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
