News & Notes Volume XI, No. 39

March 10, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Currency and Banknotes of the United Arab Emirates

   (and its antecedent Trucial States)

• The Birth of a National Currency: Unifying Monetary Policy in 1973 (UAE History and Culture). From 2025
• The Gulf Rupee: The Story of the Currency that Preceded the Dirham (UAE History and Culture). From 2025.
• Before the Dirham: A History of Currency in the Trucial States (UAE History and Culture). From 2025.
• United Arab Emirates Dirham (Banknote World). From 2022.
• Banknotes of the United Arab Emirates (PJSymes). From 2004.
• Gulf Rupees--A History (PJSymes). From 1999. Here is a pdf version with banknote images.
• The Bank Notes of the Qatar and Dubai Currency Board (PJSymes). From 1997. Here is a pdf version with banknote images.
• Currency Arrangements and Banking Legislation in the Arabian Peninsula (IMF eLibrary). Staff Paper from 1975, gives considerable historical background. Here is a pdf version of the paper.

Currency Coming and Going

• Swiss to vote on a constitutional "right to cash" (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cash in the Constitution--a Swiss Decision (Eurasia Review).
• Bhutan's Next Ngultrum (IMF).
• Zambia invalidates older banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Electronic payments in Sudan (Sudanhorizon).
• How Philippine currency promotes biodiversity conservation (Business Mirror).
• Owner sought of garbage bag filled with 25 million Korean won (Korea Joong Ang Daily).
• Bolivia deals with fallout from airplane banknote crash (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Rare banknote collection to be exhibited by the Groupement du Patronat Francophone (Business Insider).
• The Bolivian banknote drop (Marginal Revolution).
• Reserve Bank of Australia's views on cash usage (Yahoo Finance).
• The renminbi's use in Africa (Atlantic Council).

The Business of Collecting

• Luebeck Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• A rare 1928E $2 Legal Tender Star Note at auction (Coinweek).
• Philosopher John Amos Comenius on Czech currency (Banknote World).
• Sir David Kirch, 1936-2026 (E-Sylum).
• A look at the Hugh Shull Collection for sale (E-Sylum).
• Highlights of Stack's Spring 2026 Spring Showcase auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Highly Prized Morgenthau Signatures (Numismatic News).
• French Indo-China paper money offered in Stack's Maastricht auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Mauritius celebrates Joseph Maurice Paturau (Banknote World).
• The "Bucks" of the Irish (Numismatic News).
• Dimitrie Cantemir on Moldovan money (Banknote World).
• A rare $100 Chicago FRN (Stack's Bowers).
• Silver certificate with an historic provenance (Coin World).
• Stack's showcases a 1919 Bahamas 4 shilling note (Stack's Bowers).
• Charles XI on Swedish currency (Banknote World).
• Coins depicted on banknotes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Otto Leiber, banknote designer and banknote portrait (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• BOOK: Signatures on Currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• "Iran Cheque" denominations hit 10,000,000 rials (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Swiss "concept designs" for the new banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Zimbabwe to introduce new ZiG notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Sacramento Coin Show, McClellan, CA, March 13-14 (Sacramento Coin Show).
• Houston's Spring Coin Show, Houston, TX, March 13-14 (Coinzip).
• Enid Coin Club Show, Enid, OK, March 13-15 (Coinshows-USA).
• Front Range Coin Club Show, Longmont, CO, March 14-15 (FRCC).
• Jacksonville-Camp Lejeune Coin Show, Jacksonville, NC, March 14-15 (Coinshows-USA).
• Statesville Coin Show, Statesville, NC, March 14-15 (Coinshows-USA).
• Nuphilex Show, Pointe-Claire, QC, March 14-15 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      March 14

• Largo, FL; Louisville, KY; Cambridge, MD; Grand Rapids, MI; Roca, NE; Colts Neck, NJ; Elmsford, NY
  Massapequa, NY; Broadview Heights, OH; Cambridge, ON; Indiana, PA; Knoxville, TN; Arlington, WA

      March 15

• Plantation, FL; Marietta, GA; Berwyn, IL; Gillespie, IL; Fort Wayne, IN; Muscatine, IA; North Attleboro, MA
  Lansing, MI; New Baltimore, MI; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY
  Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA (may be cancelled); North Huntington, PA; Sheboygan, WI
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, March 10 (Greysheet). Not seen on Heritage website.
• Heritage Tuesday World Paper Money Auction, March 10 (Greysheet). Not seen on Heritage website.
• 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).
• A Choice Collection of Hong Kong Banknotes, Part I, March 15 (Spink).
• A Choice Collection of Hong Kong Banknotes, Part II, March 15 (Spink).
• Heritage Winter Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, March 15 (HA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction--Hugh Shull Collection, March 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Internet Auction, March 24 (CGB Numismatique).
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, March 26 (HA).
• Heritage Hong Kong Spring World Paper Money Showcase Auction, April 5 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Central States Numismatic Society Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-25 (CSNS).
• MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, May 1-3 (MIF).
• PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 28-30 (PAN).
• Baltimore Summer Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 11-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• How fossils make banknotes more secure (Bluewin).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Tik Toker arrested for tearing Kenyan currency (The Star).

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