News & Notes Volume XI, No. 31

January 13, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Paper Money of Greenland

Various articles and references

• Greenland - Kalaallit Nunaat (Land of the Kalaallit) 5 Kroner (Banknote Den).
• Greenland-Printed Notes (Numismondo). See also "Backgrounder" discussion at bottom of page.
• Greenland banknotes 100 kroner banknote 1953, Knud Rasmussen (Coins and Banknotes).
• 50 Kroner note of the Royal Greenland Trading Company (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• PMG Note of the Month: Greenland 5 Kroner (PMG). From 2020.
• Scarce Early Greenland Note (Stack's Bowers). From 2020.
• When Greenland decided not to issue its own banknotes (Banknote News). From 2010.
• Catalog of the Paper Money of Greenland (IBNS). From 1990.

Currency Coming and Going

• Mapped: The Currencies of Europe in 2026 (Visual Capitalist).
• How does the Eurozone view its own currency? (Euronews).
• Bulgarian National Bank urges rejection of damaged euro banknotes (Novinite).
• One-half of old Bulgarian lev currency has been redeemed for euros (Radio Bulgaria).
• Bulgarian ATM dispenses blank paper instead of new euro notes (akmu).
• Korean stats on damaged currency disposal for 2025 (Asia Business Daily).
• Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation complains about banknote accessibility (The Fiji Times).
• Morocco plans to withdraw old banknotes this year (Morocco World News).
• Trinidad and Tobago currency to get a new coat of arms later this year (CNW). And here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• American tries to make sense of different U.K. banknotes (Irish Mirror).
• As Syria reforms its currency, Lebanon considers likewise (En Annahar).
• The Comoros are Modernizing their National Currency (Capmad).
• The Double-Dip Bond Bear Market of 1896-1920 (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Rare Darlington Banknotes to Be Sold at London Auction (The Northern Echo).
• A look forward to Berlin's World Money Fair (Numismatic News).
• Free digital archive on the numismatic history of Paraguay is available (Asuncion Times). Link to Google Drive repository available in article.
• NEW BOOK: Macedonian Banknotes (E-Sylum).
• Stack's Bowers auction totals for 2025 (Greysheet).
• Slovenia commemorates writer Ivan Cankar (Banknote World).
• The jurist José Anacleto Ordóñez on Nicaraguan currency (Banknote World).
• French banknote featuring explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Banknote World).
• "Havenstein Ruble" and "shin plaster" (Geldscheine-online, in German). Slang terms for banknotes, not always complimentary.
• Sigmund Freud on money (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• An Austrian banknote design that never was (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Syria's new currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Bullion Bank of Washington, D.C. (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights from the upcoming Stack's NYINC World Paper Money Auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Detroit Depression Scrip (Numismatic News).
• Obsolete Notes in Unusual Denominations (Numismatic News).
• Silver Price Points Matter (Coinweek).

New Banknote Issues

• St. Helena's new polymer banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Pakistan to begin printing new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Comoros new 5,000 franc and 10,000 franc notes (Banknote News).
• Further look at Bhutan's new banknote series (Banknote World).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Wilmington Coin Club Show, Wilmington, DE, January 15-17 (Wilmington Coin Club).
• Tucson Coin & Currency Expo, Tucson, AZ, January 16-17 (Tucson Coin Show).
• NorCal - Eastbay Coin Show, Concord, CA, January 16-17 (NorCal Coin Shows).
• Houston Money Shoe, Conroe, TX, January 16-17 (Houston Money Show).
• New Mexico Coin etc. Expo, Albuquerque, NM, January 16-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Gold Coast Coin and Currency Show, Foley, AL, January 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Vero Beach / Treasure Coast Coin Show, Vero Beach, FL, January 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Carolina Coin and Stamp Show, Raleigh, NC, January 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Boucherville Coin and Stamp Show, Boucherville, Quebec, January 17-18 (Canadian Coin News).
• CANCELLED: Boeing Employees Coin Club Show, Kent, Washington, January 17-18 (BECC).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      January 17

• Phoenix, AZ; Grand Rapids, MI; Norfolk, VA; Hurricane, WV

      January 18

• Tucson, AZ; Plantation, FL; Marietta, GA; Berwyn, IL; Muncie, IN; North Attleboro, MA; South St. Paul, MN
  Southgate, MI; Hollis, NH; Cheektowaga, NY; Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA 

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday Select U.S. Currency Auction, January 13 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday Select World Currency Auction, January 13 (HA).
• 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).
• The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, January 18 (GreatCollections).
• 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

• 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).
• World Money Fair, Berlin, Germany, January 29-31 (World Money Fair).
• ANA's National Money Show, Savannah, GA, February 26-28 (ANA).
• Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, March 5-7 (Whitman Expos).
• Numismata Munich, Munich, Germany, March 7-8 (Numismata).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• A rare earths-based security ink for banknote printing (Tenerife Weekly).

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

• Algerian soccer fan arrested for tearing up Moroccan banknotes (Hesspress).
• Supply of demonetized banknotes looted in India (United News of India).
• Bulgaria's first counterfeit euro case (Novinite).
• Myanmar warns against "undermining state dignity on banknotes" (Eleven).
• "Hamburglars" in California (NY Post).

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