News & Notes Volume XI, No. 40
March 17, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
A Visit to Irishpapermoney.com
Active and comprehensive website, densely linked, devoted to Irish currency and banknotes
- Introduction to Irish Paper Money Issues, ca 1670-2001.
- 300 Years of Irish Currency.
- Design Evolution of Irish Banknotes, 1824-1916,
- The Transition of Irish Currency -- Design Changes and Modernization of Irish Banknotes, 1918-1928.
- Irish Three Pound Notes.
- Watermarks on Irish Banknotes.
- Limerick Soviet Note Issues.
- Northern Ireland Polymer Notes.
Currency Coming and Going
- The state of lev banknote circulation (Radio Bulgaria).
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has some banknote ideas (South Wales Argus). Rats or pigeons? (Yahoo News).
- Trading Sir Winston Churchill for wildlife (National Review). And Welcome to Britain's Banknote Culture War (the Guardian). Banknotes, Beavers, and a very British Backlash (BBC).
- Hungary seizes, keeps, Ukrainian cash and gold (Reuters).
- In Times of Trouble, What is Europe's Common Narrative? (International Idea).
- The Paradox of Cash in Guinea (Financial Afrik).
- Money Beyond Borders (Princeton University Press).
- How a Stationery Store Owner Crashed an Entire Economy (9News).
- Malawi to replace low denomination kwacha banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Honduras stops issuing 200 lempiras notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Market Speculation during the U.S. Civil War (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- The Federal Government's Assumption of State Debts (The Tontine Coffee-House).
The Business of Collecting
- Results of Heritage's Winter Colonial Currency Showcase auction (Greysheet).
- The Olive Sprig Collection of Palestine paper money (Greysheet).
- A Short-Lived Signature Combination from the 1940s (Stack's Bowers).
- Monetarium offers top-pop Malaysian note (PMG).
- Mavin's auction includes an array of Singaporean banknotes (PMG).
- The Tiber Collection of Italian Occupation Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
- A Peach of a Banknote from Fultonville, NY (Numismatic News).
- Celebrating 100 years of Czech currency (Banknote World).
- Commemorating the 10th President of Argentina Miguel Juárez Celman (Banknote World).
- Poet & Novelist Ivan Vazov on Bulgaria's currency (Banknote World).
- King Edward VIII specimen notes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Four new chapters of the Banknote Book: Anhalt, Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Cöthen, and Anhalt-Dessau (Banknote News).
New Banknote Issues
- Canada plans a new $20 bill for 2027 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- The new Zimbabwe 10 ZiG, 20 ZiG, and 50 ZiG banknotes (Banknote News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- South Bay/Sunnyvale Coin Show, Sunnyvale, CA, March 20-21 (NorCal Coin Shows).
- The Albany Coin Show, Leesburg, GA, March 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
- Crescent City Coin Club Show, Kenner, LA, March 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
- Northeast Mississippi Coin Show, Corinth, MS, March 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
- Mid-Missouri Collectors Show, Lake Ozark, MO, March 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
- Camden Coin Club Show, Camden, SC, March 20-21 (Coinshows-USA).
- Fort Collins Coin Club Show, Loveland, CO, March 20-22 (Coinshows-USA).
- NWCC Coin Show, Brooklyn Center, MN, March 20-22 (Northwest Coin Club).
- Talpex Coin and Stamp Show, Tallahassee, FL, March 21-22 (Coinshows-USA).
- Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, March 21-22 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
March 21
March 22
- San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Cedar Falls, IA; Cockeysville, MD; Devens, MA; Warren, MI
Flemington, NJ; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Westlake, OH; Oshawa, ON; Wilsonville, OR; Philipsburg, PA
Pittsburgh, PA; Trevose, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- 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).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, March 26 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Hong Kong Spring World Paper Money Showcase Auction, April 5 (HA).
- Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, April 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, April 18 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, April 19 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, April 19 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session E, April 20 (Stack's Bowers).
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
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
- The Peaky Blinders Nazi bank forgery (Independent).
- Australia contends with a surge in counterfeit cash (ABC News).
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
