News & Notes Volume XI, No. 5
July 15, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Silver Certificates: USA and Elsewhere
- The Short-Lived Series of 1878 Silver Certificates (Stack's Bowers). From 2024.
- The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260-1368 (CEPR). From 2024.
- The End of Silver Certificates (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2021.
- Series of 1886 Silver Dollar Back $5 Silver Certificates (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2016.
- $10 Silver Certificate Tombstone Notes of 1886-1908 (Stack's Bowers). From November 2014.
- Pesetas de Plata (Curiosidades Numismaticas). In Spanish. From 2013.
- Silver Certificates of Cuba, 1934-1949 (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2001.
- Banking, Currency, and Finance in the Philippines Islands (JSTOR / The Annals). Pdf at link. From 1907.
News & Notes last visited this topic in May 2021. All new links above!
Currency Coming and Going
- The Euro banknote design contest (European Central Bank). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- The Bank of England wants your opinion (Numismatic News).
- PETA calls on Bank of England to avoid bulldogs on its currency (PETA UK).
- The campaign against "woke" banknotes (Left Foot Forward).
- Complaints about the durability of Jamaican banknotes (The Star).
- The Deeper Meaning of Money (E-Sylum).
- A biblical riff on money (Uvalde News-Leader).
- Council of Europe officially approves Bulgaria's entry into the Eurozone (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Brazil retires old real notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Famous Trader, Jesse Livermore (The Tontine Coffee House).
- The Federal Open Market Committee over the decades (FRB of Kansas City).
- The Euro Over the Years: Its History and Benefits (European Parliament).
- Carlo M. Cipolla, the economic historian in love with money (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
The Business of Collecting
- Upcoming Archives International auction features a Binion note and a Houdini stock certificate (Numismatic News).
- More selections from the upcoming Archives International sale (E-Sylum).
- 70th Anniversary of the Renminbi (Banknote World).
- Honoring the king who wrote to Jesus (Banknote World).
- The currency of Argentina-administered Falkland Islands (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's offers a national bank note from Bonham, Texas (Stack's Bowers).
- The Grand Duke of Luxembourg on its banknotes (Banknote World).
- Afghanistan's iconic arch (Banknote World).
- Prussian constant-value notgeld from 1924 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Payroll checks from 1923 issued by the J. Wichelhaus P. Sohn Bank, Elberfeld (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- New Belize banknotes on the way (Breaking Belize News). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Bolivia to issue something to commemorate its bicentennial (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- The Houthis issue their own Yemeni notes (MIR Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Missouri Numismatic Society Show, St. Charles, MO, July 17-19 (Coinshows-USA).
- Reno Coin Show, Reno, NV, July 18-19 (Norcal Coin Shows).
- Alabama Numismatic Society Show, Bessemer, AL, July 18-20 (ANS).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
July 19
July 20
- Tucson, AZ; Cromwell, CT; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Crystal Lake, FL; North Attleboro, MA
New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ
Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, July 15 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, July 15 (HA).
- Jeffrey Wong Collection of World Banknotes Auction, July 16 (Spink).
- The Victoria Falls Collection Auction July 16 (Spink).
- Stack's July 2025 Confederate Currency Auction, July 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- China, Hong Kong, and World Banknotes Summer Auction, July 18 (Spink).
- Heritage Summer Fractional Currency Auction, July 20 (HA).
- Archives International Auction 104, July 23 (AIA).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Auction, July 24 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Summer U.S. Currency Auction, July 27 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
- RCNA 2025 Annual Convention, Calgary, AB, July 16-19 (Canadian Coin News).
- ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).
- Nashville Coin and Money Show, Nashville, TN, September 3-6 (IMEX).
- Great American Coin and Collectibles Show, Rosemont, IL, September 23-27 (GACC).
- MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, September 26-28 (MIF).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Komori America's expansion plans (Printing Impressions).
- The Secrets of Swiss Banknote Production (UBS).
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- Identity Week America, Washington, D.C., September 10-11 (Identity Week).
- Optical and Digital Document Security, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17 (Reconnaissance).
- High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2 (Reconnaissance).
From the Annals of Crime
- Another scam involving "Manoranjan Bank of India" notes (Hindustan Times).
- Fake Bulgarian banknote beats detection machine (Sofia News Agency).
- A hoard of counterfeit Swiss franc coins found in Kosovo (E-Sylum).
- India: Menace of Counterfeit Currency (Eurasia Review).
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
