News & Notes Volume XI, No. 46

April 28, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  From the Smithsonian Magazine

• How Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy. From 2023.
• How One Robber Baron’s Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression. From 2023.
• How Medieval Money Shaped Ukraine's Modern Identity. From 2022.
• The U.S. Government’s Failed Attempt to Forge Unity Through Currency. From 2021
• The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. From 2016.
• The Nazis Planned to Bomb Britain With Forged Banknotes. From 2016.
• The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance. From 2012.
• How Alphonse Mucha Designed the Nation State of Czechoslovakia. From 2012.
• David O'Keefe: The King of Hard Currency. From 2011.

Currency Coming and Going

• Japan's Many Hansatsu Notes (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Don Quixote author Cervantes considered for 50 euro note (EuroWeekly News).
• Women goes off a cliff to retrieve a banknote (Daily Echo).
• A petition for pigeons on British banknotes (Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times).
• Should the U.S. shift to polymer banknotes? (Numismatic News).
• The Euro: Facts and Figures (European Union).
• Lawmaker against Liberian banknote printing plans (All Africa).
• US blocks banknote shipment to Iraq in pressure over Iran ties (Al Jazeera).
• The Monetary Origins of the American Revolution (Law & Liberty).

The Business of Collecting

• Noonans auctions unique Bank of England note (Numismatic News).
• Alaska National Bank Notes (Numismatic News).
• Alphabetical series imprints for 1875 Legal Tender notes (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights from the upcoming Stack's Spring 2026 Maastricht sale (Stack's Bowers).
• The Hanover and Brunswick chapters of the Banknote Book are now available (Banknote News).
• The banknote featuring Romanian Naturalist & Zoologist Grigore Antipa (Banknote World).
• Ivan Mazepa in the service of Ukrainian nationalism (Banknote News).
• Hall and Sellers, printers of Continental Currency (Numismatic News).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 263, May 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.

New Banknote Issues

• Kazakhstan plans a new 20,000 tenge banknote (hronika).
• What's New in Banknotes: April 2026 (Numismatic News).
• Maldives new 10 rufiyaa note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Denver Coin Expo, Denver, CO, April 30-May 2 (Rocky Mountain Expos).
• Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville, TX, April 30-May 2 (Coinshows-USA).
• Richmond Coin and Currency Show, Richmond,  VA, April 30-May 2 (Richmond Coin Club).
• Early American Coppers Convention,  Charlotte, NC, April 30-May 2 (EACS).
• Sacramento Valley Coin Club, Sacramento, CA, May 1-2 (Coinzip).
• Norman Coin Show, Norman, OK, May 1-2 (Coinzip).
• Toronto Coin Expo, Toronto, ON, May 1-2 (Canadian Coin News).
• Midlands Coin Club Show, Columbia, SC, May 1-2 (Midlands Coin Club).
• Winnipeg Philatelic Society Show, Winnipeg, MB, May 2-3 (Canadian Coin News).
• Cape Fear Coin Club Show, Fayetteville, NC, May 2-3 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 2

• El Cajon, CA; Jackson, MI; Lamar, MO; Linwood, NJ; Canton, OH; Palmyra, PA; Knoxville, TN; Puyallup, WA
  Cross Lanes, WV

      May 3

• Anaheim, CA; Norwich, CT; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Marietta, GA; Collinsville, IL; Orland Park, IL
  Indianapolis, IN; Decatur, IN; Topsham, ME; Dedham, MA; Southfield, MI; Maple Grove, MN; Independence, MO
  Freemont, NE; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH; Kingston, ON; Timmins, ON; Windsor, ON; Rothschild, WI; Wausau, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, April 28 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Paper Money Auction, April 28 (HA).
• Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 28-May 1 (HA).
• Spink World and British Banknotes Auction, May 6 (Spink).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 1, May 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 2, May 7 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Spring Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, May 10 (HA).
• Stack's World Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's The Logan Talks Collection, May 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Auction, May 26 (CGB Numismatique).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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).
• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).

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

• Thai forex trader caught in scam (Thaiger).
• Counterfeiting trends in Ukraine (Interfax).
• Taiwan woman in trouble for jumping on railroad tracks after banknote (Focus Taiwan).
• Montana ATM technician accused of replacing real cash with prop bills in machines (MSU Exponent).

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