News & Notes Volume XI, No. 37

February 24, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Currency Commemorating the Olympics

• Collection Inspiration: The Olympic Games (PMG). From 2024.
• Banknotes Celebrate the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing (Keesing Technologies). From 2021.
• The China 20 Yuan Banknotes to Commemorate the 2022 Winter Olympics (Banknote World).
• South Korea--Olympic Spirit (Crane Currency). From 2018.
• Russia's Snowboard Rubles Hit the Slopes (RFE/RL). From 2013.
• Canadian Journey Series $5 Note (Bank of Canada).
• Curling, as depicted on trading cards (The Curling History Blog). Close enough.

Currency Coming and Going

• Sweden has no plans to join the eurozone (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Why Ukraine altered its banknote design (komersant).
• Ukraine retires small-denomination hyrvnia notes (UNN).
• When Australia adopted the dollar (ABC News, via E-Sylum).
• Even the Swiss are going cashless (SWI).
• Rat vs. ATM (AZ Animals).
• Cross-Border Central Bank Operations, Part I (Tontine Coffee-House).
• Should We Prepare for the End of the King Dollar? (Geopolitique).
• The Henry Duncan Savings Banks Museum (The Westmoreland Gazette).

The Business of Collecting

• Some Stanley Gibbons Baldwins auction results (Numismatic News).
• Running Antelope and the 1899 $5 Silver Certificate (Coinweek).
• The Greek Hyperinflation Banknote Series (Banknote World).
• The Hyperinflation Series Banknotes of Romania (Banknote World).
• Collection Inspiration: Year of the Horse (PMG).
• Note of the Month: Kuwaiti 5 Dinars (PMG).
• New edition of Belgian Numismatic Emissions, 2026 (Geldscheine-online, book notice in German, book in Dutch).
• Noonan's offers Qatari "Printer's Design" note (PMG).
• Astrid Lindgren on Swedish currency (Banknote World).
• Early Paper Money of Ceylon (Stack's Bowers).
• Serial No. 1 $100 FRN note at auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Malaya & British Borneo $1000 note on sale by Trigometric (PMG).
• A New Normal for Silver? (Coinweek).
• Heritage offers rare Lebanese note (PMG).
• Stack's offers rare gold certificates (PMG).

New Banknote Issues

• Maldives puts new 20 rufiyaa notes in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ukraine issues new "Glory to Urkraine" commemorative (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Fiji's Polymer Banknote Family (Banknote World).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Santa Clara Coin Show, Santa Clara, CA, February 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).
• Memphis Coin Club Show, Southaven, MS, February 27-March 1 (Memphis Coin Club).
• Calgary Spring 2026 Show, Calgary, AB, February 28-March 1 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      February 28

• Phoenix, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Okahumpka, FL; Oldsmar, FL; Hagerstown, MD; Grand Rapids, MN
  Westlake, OH; Schertz, TX

      March 1

• Livermore, CA; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Dedham, MA; Livonia, MI; Parsippany, NJ
  Dayton, OH; Fairview Park, OH; Hamilton, ON; Mississauga, ON; Exton, PA
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, February 24 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Paper Money Auction, February 24 (Greysheet).
• Stack's World Collector's Choice auction, February 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Collector's Choice auction, February 26 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Auction, February 27 (Lyn Knight).
• The Jasper Collection of national bank notes, March 1 (Great Collections).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, March 3 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Winter Colonial Currency Auction, March 8 (HA).
• Stack's Spring 2026 Showcase Auction, Session 5, March 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Spring 2026 Showcase Auction, Session 6, March 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Spring 2026 Showcase Auction, Session 7, March 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Trigometric Auction, March 14 (Trigometric).
• Heritage Winter Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, March 15 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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).
• Central States Numismatic Society Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-25 (CSNS).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Fed metrics for 2025 (Numismatic News).
• Arrow Greentech files India patent for security printing technology (Whalesbook).

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

• Currency scams in Iraq include the $1,000,000 bill (al bawaba).
• After 20 years, lingering mysteries of Britain's biggest cash robbery (BBC).
• Counterfeiting trends in Kazakhstan (Interfax).
• Fakes plague Queensland, Australia (Noosa Today).
• Kentucky woman tries to pay cash bond with prop money (44News).
• Counterfeit Detection: Timor 1910 1 Pataca (PMG).
• Gold coin theft in Martinsburg, WV (Coinweek).
• "Jackpotting" on the increase in 2025 (Dark Reading).
• Counterfeit currency in the German Democratic Republic (Geldscheine-online, in German).

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