News & Notes Volume XI, No. 51

June 2, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Materials on the American Bank Note Company

• The Story of the American Bank Note Company, by William H. Griffiths. Published 1959. Full pdf text at link.
• Antecedents of the American Bank Note Company of 1858, by Foster Wild Rice. Published 1961. Full pdf text at link.
• The Imprint, monthly magazine of the ABN Co, Vols 1-3. Published 1907-1909. Full pdf text link. Note: this is a large file. Not familiar with this publication but it is beautiful.
• The American Bank Note Company, 1879-1893 (National Postal Museum).

Currency Coming and Going

• India contemplates a shift to polymer banknotes (PrintWeek).
• A United Nations currency? (Columbia University - SIPA).
• Project Agorá: exploring tokenisation of wholesale cross-border payments (Bank of International Settlements).
• Denmark's worthless banknotes after the May 31 deadline (Danmarks Nationalbank).
• Last chance to get rid of your old Syrian currency (Enab Baladi).
• The euro as an international currency (European Central Bank).
• Naughty monkey in India engages in impromptu cash distribution (Yahoo News).
• The Chiemgauer local currency, still in operation (Deutsche Welle).
• How a Small-town Arkansas Man Got God on America's Money (Christian Post)
• The Trump $250 bill (The Guardian).
• The 1866 law in the way of the Trump $250 bill (Moneywise).
• Put a Revolution-era Woman on the $250 Bill (The Hill).
• Digital Currencies and the Financial System (CEPR).
• Financial Bombay in the Tumultuous 1860s (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• America 250 at the Higgins Museum (E-Sylum).
• PMG takes legal action against "PMGIndia" (PMG).
• New Griqualand Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• The Card Money of French Canada (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights of Stack's upcoming Collectors Choice auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes on the 5,000 Cruzieros note (Banknote World).
• Poet & writer Ivan Franko honored on Ukrainian banknote (Banknote World).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 264, June 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
• German currency policies in Alsace-Lorraine, 1940-1945 (Gelescheine-online, in German).
• NEW EDITION: Catalog of the Paper Money of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, 1900-2026 (Geldscheine-online, book notice in German, book in Czech).
• Mysterious 500 mark notes of the German Democratic Republic (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Azerbaijan's plan for a new 100 manat banknote (ABC).
• Guatemala's 100 quetzal commemorative (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• East Bay-Concord Coin Show, Concord, CA, June 5-6 (Norcal Coin Shows).
• Des Moines Coin Club Show, Urbandale, IA, June 5-6 (Coinshows-USA).
• 43rd Annual Great Cincinnati Numismatic Exposition, Cinti, OH, June 5-6 (CCC).
• Salt Lake Coin Show, Sandy, UT, June 5-6 (Utah Coin Shows).
• Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, June 5-7 (Coinshows-USA).
• HUNTSPEX 2026, Huntsville, AL, June 6-7 (sefc.org).
• Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Show, Salem, VA, June 6-7 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      June 6

• Tampa, FL; Timonium, MD; Clarkston, MI; Marion, NC; Schnecksville, PA; Laval, QC
  Knoxville, TN; Centralia, WA

      June 7

• Aopoka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA; Monroe, MI; Wyandotte, MI
  Independence, MO; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH; London, ON; Wilsonville, OR
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Stack's World Collectors Choice Auction, June 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 3 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Auction, June 3 (Lyn Knight).
• Trigometric June 2026 Auction, June 6 (Trigometric).
• The Black Hills Collection of Paper Money, June 7 (GreatCollections).
• Heritage Spring Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, June 14 (HA).
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16 (HA).
• June 2026 Hong Kong Premier Collectors Choice Auction, Session A, June 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• June 2026 Hong Kong Premier Collectors Choice Auction, Session B, June 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• June 2026 Hong Kong Premier Collectors Choice Auction, Session C, June 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• Bank of Scotland McTominay Charity Auction, June 26 (Spink).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Baltimore Summer Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 11-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).
• World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh, PA, August 25-29 (ANA).

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

• A prop money fraud incident in Macau (Macau Post).
• Benin tightens counterfeiting laws (Voice of Africa).
• Myanmar's counterfeiting problem (Numismatics News).
• Zimbabwean politician defrauded in "black magic money" scam (Bulawayo24).

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