News & Notes Volume XI, No. 48
May 12, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
Recent Material from the Banknote Den
- Morocco - Emergency Banknotes of WWII. From May 2026.
- Nebraska Territory 1856 $5...The Steamship Omaha and Utopian Money. From November 2025.
- Kansas $5 Military Scrip 1867. From November 2025.
- Jan Zizka – aka – John One-Eye! From November 2025.
- Mary Slessor, “White Queen of the Okoyong.” From October 2025.
- The White Ladies: Omens of Impending Doom? From October 2025.
- Indonesia Borobudur Temple 10000 Rupiah. From September 2025.
Currency Coming and Going
- "Fishing for Jews" (ynet).
- Somalia's worthless shilling notes (The Guardian).
- Zimbabwe releases new supply of ZiG banknotes (Bulawayo 24)
- Balky Belorussian ATMs (Nasha Vina).
- World War II banknote forgery exhibition (Telegraph and Argus).
- The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's "Money in Motion" exhibit (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
- Sudan monitors its currency replacement (All Africa).
- Does the U.S. Government Have a Monopoly on Issuing Money? (Numismatic News).
- Tokenized assets and bank runs (Forbes).
- Energy Loans and the Failure of Penn Square (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- De-Dollarization: Has the End of History Ended? (Money Metals).
The Business of Collecting
- Bank of Taiwan to auction off special serial numbered banknotes (cbc).
- Selections from Stack's upcoming Collectors Choice auction (E-Sylum).
- Highlights of recent Kelleher & Rogers auction (E-Sylum).
- The Only $100,000 Gold Certificate in Private Hands (Coinweek).
- Monarchs on Money (Stack's Bowers).
- The Logan Talks currency auction (Stack's Bowers).
- Is Your Collection Safe? (Coinweek).
- Where are gold and silver prices heading? (Coinweek).
- Finnish Architect & Designer Alvar Aalto on currency (Banknote World).
New Banknote Issues
- What's New in Banknotes: May 2026 (Numismatic News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Sedalia Coin and Stamp Show, Sedalia, MO, May 15-16 (Coinshows-USA).
- Texas Numismatic Association Show, Fort Worth, TX, May 15-17 (Coinzip).
- Arcadia Coin Show, Arcadia, CA, May 16-17 (California Coin Events).
- Boucherville Coin and Stamp Show, Boucherville, QC, May 16-17 (Canadian Coin News).
- Midwest Gold and Silver Show, Sioux Falls, SD, May 16-17 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
May 16
May 17
- Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Orono, ME; New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH
Old Bridge, NJ; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Sidney, OH; Langhorne, PA; Pittsburgh, PA
Beaver Dam, WI
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Stack's The Logan Talks Collection, May 14 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, May 20 (Stack's Bowers).
- The Sun Rose Collection of U.S. Paper Money, May 24 (GreatCollections).
- CGB Auction, May 26 (CGB Numismatique).
- Archives International Auction 113, May 27 (AIA).
- Stack's Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 28 (Stack's Bowers).
- The Black Hills Collection of Paper Money, June 7 (GreatCollections).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- 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 Forum).
From the Annals of Crime
- Bangladesh Bank mandates counterfeit currency detection booths (The Business Standard).
- Origami folding notes (Wiregrass Daily News).
- Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter (Amusing Planet).
- Counterfeit Banknotes – The Story of Czeslaw Bojarski (Coinweek).
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
