News & Notes Volume XI, No. 44

April 14, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Hungary's Banknotes

• Paper Money in Hungary (Bavarikon).
• Forint Banknotes - Hungarian Legal Tender (Magyar Nemzeti Bank). Pdf at link.
• Gabriel Bethlen King of Hungary (Banknote World). From 2025.
• King Charles I of Hungary (Banknote World). From 2025.
• Ferenc Deak – The Wise Man of 19th Century Hungary (Banknote World). From 2024.
• World's Highest Denomination Banknote is Hungarian (Daily News Hungary). From 2024.
• Happy Birthday, Forint! (Hungarian Conservative). From 2023.
• Hungarian Forint - Banknote History (Banknote World). From 2021.
• The Hungarian Forint's Centuries of History (PMG). From 2020.
• The Hungarian Hyperinflation (Daily News Hungary). From 2018.
• 70 Years of the Hungarian Forint (Corvinus). From 2016. Pdf at link.
• Hungarian National Bank Turns Old Banknotes into Fuel (BBC). From 2012.
• The Inflation Notes of Hungary, 1945-1946 (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1973.

Currency Coming and Going

• Bangladeshi banks pressured to accept soiled banknotes (The Daily Star).
• Sudan announces another phase of its banknote exchange (Sudan Tribune).
• Malaysian central bank to auction fancy serial number notes (Business Today).
• Liberian banknote proposal faces legislative scrutiny (All Africa).
• Cuba: Do bigger bills create more inflation? (Ciber Cuba).
• Fantasy Nigerian banknote is making the rounds (The Vanguard).
• The Trump signature (Coin World).
• Steven Girard (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• A Note on "Currency" in Colonial America (Mises Institute).
• A History of Bank Supervision in America (Cato Institute).

The Business of Collecting

• The Final Frontier of Collecting (Numismatic News).
• National banks in Morrow, Ohio (Numismatic News).
• The Rainbow Jackass Note (Coinweek).
• Coin show etiquette (Sixbid).
• Pakistan's Early Experiment with Polymer (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Results from Stack's Collectors Choice March 2026 auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights of the upcoming Crown Currency auction (PMG).
• Operation Epic Fury Ship Scrip (E-Sylum).
• The Liberty Dollar Bill Act (E-Sylum).
• Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp on a 50 franc note (Banknote World).
• Sookdeo Bissoondoyal on Mauritian 500 rupee banknote (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• Who will appear on Liberia's new banknotes? (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Tunisia issues modified 5 dinar banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Zimbabwe's new banknotes (Voice of Africa).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Fort Dodge Coin Club Show, Fort Dodge, IA, April 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Fort Worth Coin Club, White Settlement, TX, April 17-18 (Coinzip).
• Georgia Numismatic Association Coin Show, Dalton, GA, April 17-19 (GNA).
• Michigan State Numismatic Society Convention, Waterford, MI, April 17-19 (MSNS).
• Great Southwest Coin Expo, Albuquerque, NM, April 17-19 (ACC).
• The Valley Coin Show, Sherman Oaks, CA, April 18-19 (California Coin Events).
• Scranton Coin Club Show, Pittston, PA, April 18-19 (NEPA Coin Clubs).
• Regina Coin Club Spring Show, Regina, SK, April 18-19 (Canadian Coin News).
• Vienna Coin and Stamp Show, Vienna, VA, April 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      April 18

• Medicine Hat, AB; Phoenix, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Clearwater, FL; Crown Point, IN; Wheatland, MO
  Olympia, WA; Huntington, WV

      April 19

• San Fernando, CA; Cromwell, CT; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Kokomo, IN; North Attleboro, MA; New Baltimore, MI
• South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH
  Langhorne, PA; Eau Claire, WI
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Spink World Banknotes Auction, April 16 (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).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session E, April 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Auction April 21 (CGB Numismatique).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 53, April 22 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, April 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 28-May 1 (HA).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 1, May 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 2, May 7 (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

• De la Rue and Botswana (MRI Bankers' Guide).

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

• De la Rue and Botswana (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