News & Notes Volume XI, No. 52
June 9, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
Soccer / Football Themes on Banknotes
- PMG's Featured Note of the Month: Qatar 2020 10 Riyals (PMG). From 2022.
- Collection Inspiration: Sports (PMG). Includes several soccer notes. From 2021.
- New Qatar 22 Riyals Commemorating The World Cup (Banknote World). From 2022.
- Final Game of FIFA – Banknotes Carry The Legacy (Banknote World). From 2022.
- Football on Banknotes (Banknote World). From 2021.
- Messi and Ronaldo on "concept" notes (Roya). From 2025.
- Diego Maradona and Football Banknotes (Banknote World). From 2020.
- A Swiss 200 franc note and football (Geldscheine-online, in German). From 2024.
Currency Coming and Going
- Nigerian kid turns cash savings into confetti (Fox News).
- Zcash's own privacy protocols make it impossible to know if it's been counterfeited (Security Affairs). Also here (Yahoo FInance).
- Benjamin Franklin's impact on paper money (The Conversation).
- Hedgehog banknotes? (The European). Or Pine Marten Money? (Yahoo News). Foxes, Puffins, or Frogs? (Yahoo News).
- STELLA, Germany's new banknote concept (Euroweekly News).
- Exhibition at the Kuwait National Museum (Kuwait Times).
- Battle for the Erie Railroad (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- The Chachos are Back (Buenos Aires Herald).
The Business of Collecting
- An historic short snorter for sale (Numismatic News).
- The "Horse Blanket" that Launched Modern Money (Coinweek).
- 19th Century Apothecaries, Druggists, and Drug Store Currency– Part 1 (Numismatic News).
- British Kaffraria Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
- Highlights of Stack's upcoming Hong Kong Collectors Choice auction (Stack's Bowers).
- Highlights of Heritage's upcoming World Paper Money Signature auction (HA).
- The Many Paper Faces of Abraham Lincoln (Stack's Bowers).
- Upcoming Crown Currency auction includes rare Netherlands Indies note (PMG).
- Commemorating Oklahoma's Kaw Dam and Reservoir, 1966 (SPMC).
- The Commemorative Note that Wasn't (Greysheet).
- The Pakistan 1,000 Rupees Banknote Honoring Mughal Emperor Jahangir (Banknote World).
- The Spain 5 Pesetas Banknote Remembering Seneca the Younger (Banknote World).
New Banknote Issues
- Kazakhstan's new 500 tenge note (Banknote News).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- 7th Annual Tulsa Coin Show, Tulsa, OK, June 11-13 (Tulsa Coin Show).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
June 13
June 14
- Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT (I); Orange, CT (II); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN
Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Brantford, ON; North Huntingdon, PA
Telford, PA; Mechanicsburg, VA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Crown Currency Auction 55, June 9-10 (Crown Currency).
- Heritage Spring Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, June 14 (HA).
- Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16 (HA).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 17 (Stack's Bowers).
- The Shadeland Collection of modern banknotes, June 21 (GreatCollections).
- 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).
- CGB Live Auction, July 7 (CGB Numismatique).
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).
- Long Beach Expo, Long Beach, CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Kygyzstan opens a banknote printing facility (Numismatic News).
- India's currency printing network (Business League).
- Jamaica assesses the durability of its polymer notes (Jamaica Observer).
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).
- Intergraf Currency + Identity, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-16, 2026 (Biometric Update).
From the Annals of Crime
- Senegal cracks a counterfeit ring (APA News).
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
