News & Notes Volume XI, No. 45

April 21, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Material on Antebellum Counterfeit Detecting

• Dillistin's Bank Note Reporters and Counterfeit Detectors, 1826-1866 (ANS). Monograph published 1949. Pdf at link.
• Counterfeit Capitalism: Exploring the Blurred Line Between Genuine and False Currency in the Antebellum U.S. Economy (PMG). From 2011.
• Nothings into Something: Intrinsic Value and Counterfeit Money in Antebellum Law and Culture (Northern Ohio University Law Review). Published 2010. Pdf at link.
• John S. Dye and His Counterfeit Detectors (Newman Numismatic Portal). Published 2021.
• The Celebrated and Elusive Naramore Bank Note Detector Cards (Paper Money). From 1997. Pdf at link.

Currency Coming and Going

• Digitally tracking banknote serial numbers? (ua.news).
• Cash comeback in Australia (The Conversation).
• Four meters' worth of Australian short snorter banknotes (ABC News).
• Older-series Danish banknotes soon to become worthless (Danish National Bank).
• "Radiating" $100 bills at the Polish-Ukrainian border (inbox.lv).
• Uganda warns about folding banknotes in church (Nile Post).
• The "Great Loco Foco Juggernaut" (Popular Science).
• Azerbaijan plans updated banknotes (operativmm).
• Liberia: "We Are Not Printing New Money" (All Africa).
• Chinese woman scatters banknotes from her high-rise apartment (Asia One).
• How Quickly Will Hungary Adopt the Euro? (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Austria-Hungary--History of a Monetary Separation, Part I (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Guinness's 1886 IPO (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Confederate currency and national bank notes at Heritage's CSNS auction (ArtDaily).
• Collection Inspiration: Male Authors (PMG).
• Note of the Month: Vietnam 1 Dong (PMG).
• Continental Currency and Lord Dexter (E-Sylum).
• The Confederate Montgomery Notes (E-Sylum).
• Panama's "Seven Day Dollar" (Stack's Bowers).
• The Enigmatic Series of 1928D $5 Federal Reserve Note (Stack's Bowers).
• 19th Century Glassworks: U.S. Obsolete Notes -- Part 2 (Numismatic News). Here is Part 1, from March 2026.
• Ceylon rarities at Stack's Maastricht auction (PMG).
• Puerto Rico and Colorado national bank notes at Heritage CSNS auction (PMG).
• More items from the upcoming Heritage CSNS auction (E-Sylum).
• Heritage offers 1882 gold certificate (PMG).
• A Space Race sale (Coin World).
• Bank Accounts for Babies in Louisville, Kentucky (SPMC).
• IBNS BNOY award goes to Curacao and Sint Maarten (Numismatic News). Also here (Banknote News).
• The Special Note: Hawaii 5 Dollars 1934 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Goloid Dollars: America's Electrum Coinage (Coinweek).
• General Lê Văn Duyệt on South Vietnamese currency (Banknote World).
• Safe Deposit Horror Story (E-Sylum).

New Banknote Issues

• Those new Cuban banknotes (Numismatic News). Also here and here (Banknote News).
• Saint Helena new 5 pound  and 10 pound polymer notes (Banknote News).
• The Azerbaijan 100 manat note (Banknote World). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Zimbabwe 10 Zig, 20 Zig, and 50 Zig notes (Banknote World).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Santa Clara Coin Show, Santa Clara, CA, April 24-25 (Coinshows-USA).
• Longview Coin Club Show, Longview, TX, April 24-25 (Longview Coin Club).
• Coin Auction and Collectibles Show, Truro, NS, April 25-26 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      April 25

• Okahumpka, FL; Highland, MI; Walker, MI; Lexington, NC; Akron, OH; Westlake, OH (Coinshows-USA
  gives date as April 26); Guelph, ON; Sudbury, ON

      April 26

• Cupertino, CA; Greenacres, FL; Peotone, IL; Devens, MA; West Springfield, MA; Livonia, MI; Hackettstown, NJ
  Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Pickering, ON; Trevose, PA; Longview, WA; Bridgeport, WV
  Green Bay, WI
  
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• Stack's World Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 11 (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

• New Trump-signed banknotes to be printed in Fort Worth (Fort Worth Report).
• Libya and De La Rue talk money printing (The Libya Observer).
• A Hong Kong "dream job" -- printing money (The Standard).

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

• Counterfeiters target Jamaican polymer banknotes (The Jamaica Gleaner).
• Counterfeit Detection: Indonesia 1993 50,000 Rupiah (PMG).

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