News & Notes Volume XI, No. 41

March 24, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Various Material on Pennsylvania National Banks and Their Banknotes

•  Charter Number 1 (Wells Fargo).
• First National Bank Museum, Columbia, PA (Bank Museum).
• Banknotes from the Saegertown and Meadville, PA, areas (knowthyme.com).
• National bank notes from  Brownsville, PA , Intercourse, PA, and Pittsburgh, PA (all Stack's Bowers).
• A Monumental Time in Sipesville, PA; All Aboard to (Strasburg) Pennsylvania; Making a Pit Stop in Pottsville, PA ; and Coaldale, PA--Two Different Towns, Two Issuing Banks (all Numismatics News).
• The First National Bank of Forest City, PA, Charter #5518 (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2021.
• Sand, Clay, Coal, and National Banks (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2019.
• The First National Bank of Edinboro, Pennsylvania (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2004.
• The Grange National Banks of Pennsylvania (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1996.
• AND, a few Pennsylvania banker biographies: Samuel McCord Linn (Chambersburg); Henry George Catlin (Scranton); Thomas Hartley Given (Pittsburgh); and O. Howard Wolfe (Philadelphia) (all Bank Note History Wiki).

Currency Coming and Going

• The dearth of small banknotes in Gaza (Euronews).
• Should Jersey Follow English Banknote Design? (AOL/BBC).
• Badgering Churchill (AEI).
• Churchill and British identity (Yahoo News / The Conversation).
• QR Codes in Banknotes (Numismatic News).
• Sweden's government takes another look at paper money (Euractiv).
• The Seven Stages of Empire (GoldSilver).
• South Sudan plans for larger banknote denominations (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• French Reparations, the Imperial War Treasury, and the July Uprising (SixBid).
• The Höchstetters and the Mercury Market (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Some results from Noonan's auction of the Ibrahim Salem Collection of Levant notes (Numismatic News).
• Noonan's offers rare Bank of England notes in upcoming auction (Numismatic News).
• Highlights of upcoming Crown Currency auction, as well as some Dutch proof notes (PMG).
• A Straits Settlements proof note at auction (PMG).
• What Makes a 'Date Back'? (Stack's Bowers).
• The Olive Sprig Collection of Palestine Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
• Rezwan Razack: The Man Who Kept India's Money from Being Forgotten (The New Indian Express).
• March 2026 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• Upcoming at Heritage's World Paper Money Signature auction (E-Sylum).
• Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the New Taiwan dollar (Banknote World).
• Toussaint Louverture & the Bicentennial of the Haitian Constitution (Banknote World).
• Transnistria honors  the Russian military commander Pyotr Rumyantsev (Banknote World).
• Hawaii's Story Through Banknotes (HA, via E-Sylum).
• The Republica Filipina 5 Pesos (HA, via E-Sylum).

New Banknote Issues

• Iran's largest denomination ever (Yahoo Finance).
• Opposition to Guinea printing new banknotes (APA News).
• Botswana awaits a new 10 pula note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Papua New Guinea's 100 kina commemorative (Banknote News).
• Brunei's new 1 dollar, 5 dollar, 10 dollar, 100 dollar, and 500 dollar banknotes (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Northeast Alabama Coin Show, Gadsden, AL, March 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).
• Northwest Arkansas Coin Show, Springdale, AR, March 27-28 (NWACC).
• Eagle Rock Numismatic Society Coin Show, Idaho Falls, ID, March 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang, OK, March 27-28 (Coinshows-USA).
• California State Numismatic Association Convention, Arcadia, CA, March 27-29 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      March 28

• Scottsdale, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Tampa, FL; Owatonna, MN; Brandon, MS; Asheville, NC; Owego, NY
  Marietta, OH; Richardson, TX; Colonial Heights, VA

      March 29

• Phoenix, AZ; Elgin, IL; Livonia, MI; South St Paul, MN; Albany, NY; Jamestown, NY; Cincinnati, OH
  Chatham, ON; Mechanicsburg, PA; Zelienople, PA; Appleton, WI; 
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• Archives International Auction 112, April 6-7 (AIA).
• Stack's World Collectors Choice Auction, April 7 (Stack's Bowers).
• Spink Hong Kong World Banknotes and Coins Auction, April 8 (Spink).
• Spink China Banknotes and Coins Auction, April 8 (Spink).
• 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).

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

• Fake yoga guru, fake currency (The New Indian Express).
• Man pays bail bondsman with counterfeit cash (TXK Today).
• New Guinean note is actually an "A.I. Fantasy" (MRI Bankers' Guide).

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