News & Notes Volume XI, No. 7

July 29, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

A Look at Aldrich-Vreeland Currency

• Creation of Money by the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908 (Numismatic News). From 2023.
• Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency During the Crisis of 1914 (Journal of Financial Crises). Pdf at link. From 2022.
• New York's Bank: The National Monetary Commission and the Founding of the Fed (Cato Institute). From 2016.
• New York Replaces London as the Center of the World (Delancey Place). From 2016.
• The Last Crisis Before the Fed (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond). Pdf at link. From 2013.
• The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (NYU/Stern). Pdf downloadable at link. From 2007.
• The Great Debate on Banking Reform: Nelson Aldrich and the Origins of the Fed (Project Muse). Full-text monograph by Elmus Wicker. Pdf at link. From 2005.
• The Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency (JSTOR/Annals of the American Academy). Pdf. at link. From 1922.

Currency Coming and Going

• Apparently, the EU's idea of "European Culture" doesn't include Polish surnames (EAD). Also here (Politico.eu).
• Sudan's "dire banknote situation" (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Balinese cultural motifs on Indonesian banknotes (Antara).
• The bankers Hope & Company (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• The Big Steal--Czechoslovakia's Monetary Reform of  June 1953 (Geldscheine-online, in German).

The Business of Collecting

• BOOK: Paper Money of Israel (E-Sylum).
• Heritage Auction's Currency News, July 25, 2025 (HA).
• Collection Inspiration: Best Designed Notes (PMG). IBNS award winners.
• Banknotes of American territorial possessions and American collectors (Stack's Bowers).
• A Sentimental Souvenir for sale (Stack's Bowers).
• The banknote featuring Bosnian Poet Mak Dizdar (Banknote World).
• Romanian currency celebrating Painter Nicolae Grigorescu (Banknote World).
• Fred Holabird's "few last roundups" (Numismatic News).
• Is Your Collection Safe? (Coinweek).
• How Spain honors poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (Banknote World).
• Charles Darwin on a pound note (Banknote World).
• 500th Anniversary of the German Peasants' War (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• The Houthis' banknote (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Belize's new banknote series (Breaking Belize News).
• Namibia's new 10 dollar, 20 dollar, 50 dollar, 100 dollar, and 200 dollar notes (Banknote News). See also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Blue Ridge Numismatic Association Annual Convention, Dalton, GA, July 31-Aug 2 (BRNA).
• Central Valley Coin Show, Modesto, CA, Aug 1-2 (Coinshows-USA).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang, OK, Aug 1-2 (Coinshows-USA).
• Vienna Coin and Stamp Show, Vienna, VA, Aug 2-3 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 2

• Tampa, FL; Williamsport, PA; Siren, WI
   

​​      August 3

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Collinsville, IL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA
  Wyandotte, MI; Maple Grove, MN; Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH 

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, July 29 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, July 29 (HA).
• Lyn Knight Auction, Daniel Wong Collection, July 30 (Lyn Knight).
• Heritage Summer Confederate Currency Auction, August 10 (HA).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 2, August 26 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 3, August 26 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 6, August 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 7, August 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session D, August 29 (Stack's Bowers).

​Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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).
• PAN Show,  Monroeville, PA, October 16-18 (PAN).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Orell Füssli's half-year results (Trading View).
• India seeks banknote security ink sources that don't have links to Pakistan or China (News 18).
• KOMSCO's Italian contract (Business Korea).

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

• National Anti-Counterfeiting Month (e-Sylum).
• Tasmania hit with bogus $50 bills (Pulse Tasmania).
• A suitcase full of fake cash makes a protest on behalf of Crystal Palace (cedirates).
• The sovereign fakery of "West Arctica" (Newslaundry).
• An ATM scam in New York City (ATM Marketplace).

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