News & Notes Volume XI, No. 30
January 6, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
A Visit to "Curiosidades Numismáticas" (Numismatic Curiosities)
Spanish-language blog maintained by José Ramón Vicente; title links below translated into English
- Money and Art Deco. From 2025.
- "National" Notgeld Issues [Spanish emergency scrip]. From 2025.
- A Matter of Pride: Occupation and Propaganda Banknotes. From 2024.
- Sunk Money. From 2024.
- One Country, Two Pesetas. From 2021.
- The Argentine Quasi-Currency. From 2019.
- Warlord Banknotes. From 2017.
And here is a link describing his 2025 book about German notgeld.
Currency Coming and Going
- In the new year, Syrians exchange old currency for new (Yahoo Finance).
- Syria's "expression of new identity" (The Arab Weekly).
- Two Readings of Syria's New Currency (The Syrian Observer).
- Zimbabwe's banknote plans for 2026 (Trends in Africa).
- Algeria's new currency controls (APA News).
- Bulgaria introduces the Euro (European Central Bank). Also, The Lev's Final Chapter (Novinite).
- Bulgaria joins the Euro (BBC). May be gated.
- A $250 Trump note? (Newsmax).
- The politics of currency, and of cash, in the Czech Republic (Deutsche Welle).
- On the U.S. dollar's international status (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas).
- Alarm over a "new currency" (Petersen Institute of International Economics).
- New Orleans Banking During the Civil War (Tontine Coffee-House).
The Business of Collecting
- .Book Review: Siege Notes of the World (E-Sylum).
- Carlos Fonseca on Nicaraguan currency (Banknote World).
- Sadriddin Ayni on Tajik banknotes (Banknote World).
- Selections from Stack's upcoming NYINC Currency Auction (E-Sylum).
- Selections from Archives International's upcoming Auction 110 (E-Sylum).
- CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 259, January 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
New Banknote Issues
- Features of Russia's new 1,000 ruble note (Realnoe Vremya). Also here (Banknote News).
- Kazakhstan's 500-tenge note (Banknote World).
- Oman's polymer commemorative (Coin World).
- Azerbaijan changes a note (Coin World).
- The Comoros issues new 5,000 and 10,000 franc banknotes (MRI Bankers Guide).
- Bhutan's new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Syria's new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Las Vegas Show, Las Vegas, NV, January 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).
- Cheyenne Coin Show, Cheyenne, WY, January 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
January 10
January 11
- Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Cockeysville, MD; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Westlake, OH
Telford, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- CGB Live Auction, January 6 (CGB Numismatique).
- Spink China Banknotes and Coins, January 11 (Spink).
- The Woking Collection of U.S. Banknotes, January 11 (GreatCollections).
- The Chesterfield Collection of U.S. Paper Money, January 11 (GreatCollections).
- The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, January 11 (GreatCollections).
- Spink Hong Kong, Macau, World Banknotes & Coins, January 11 (Spink).
- Heritage FUN U.S. Currency Auction, January 13-16 (HA).
- Spink World Banknotes at NYINC, January 16 (Spink).
- 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).
- Heritage Winter Fractional Currency Showcase Auction, January 18 (HA).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session C, January 20 (Stack's Bowers).
- Archives International Auction No. 110, January 20 (AIA).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session D, January 21 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Winter U.S. Obsolete Currency Auction, January 25 (HA).
- 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 (FUN).
- 54th NYINC, New York City, January 16-18 (NYINC).
- National History Stock Certificate and Bond Show, Herndon, VA, January 23-24 (Stock and Bond Show).
- ANA's National Money Show, Savannah, GA, February 26-28 (ANA).
- Numismata Munich, Munich, Germany, March 7-8 (Numismata).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- England's "secret" money-printing factory (Essex Live).
- Bolivian banknote has a new printer and security thread (Banknote News).
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
- Quantities of fake Nepali currency seized (Hindustan Times).
- A paper currency scam by phony Reserve Bank of India officials (Times of India).
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
