News & Notes Volume XI, No. 9

August 12, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Materials Relating to U.S. Fractional Currency

• Fractional Currency, 1862-1876 (uspapermoney.org).
• United States Fractional Currency (PMG). From 2019.
• The Genesis of Postage Currency (Paper Money). From 2019. Pdf at link.
• There Was a Time When 50 Cent Notes Circulated (Coin World). From 2017.
• Fractional Currency: The Engravers and Artists (Paper Money). From 2016. Pdf at link.
• "Lady Justice" on Fractional Currency (SPMC). From 2013.

Currency Coming and Going

• In Belize, it's bye bye Queen (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Changes to U.S. currency will begin in 2026 (Numismatic News).
• Lost wallet rescued from Taiwan temple toilet (Taiwan News).
• The only cricketer on a banknote (Cric Tracker).
• Iran moves forward with currency redenomination (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Some resistance to Curacao's new currency (Curacao Chronicle).
• BRICs "currency of the future" (Coin World).
• Banknote tributes to Ozzy Osbourne (Express & Star).
• Oman denies issuing new banknote (Oman Daily Observer).
• Banknotes are getting scarce in Gaza (The National).

The Business of Collecting

• Ecuador Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola on a banknote (Banknote World).
• Red Seals and Ruins in Texas (Numismatic News).
• The King of Silver Certificates (Stack's Bowers).
• Airplanes on Banknotes Around the World (Stack's Bowers).
• Slovenia's Johann Weikhard von Valvasor on its currency (Banknote World).
• Libya's 20 dinar notes, past and present (Banknote World).
• Notgeld marking the Russia attack on East Prussia, 1914 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Allied military currency in Denmark, 1945 (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• New Falkland Islands notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bangladesh new 100 taka notes to be released (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Namibia's new currency due in August (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Belize 2 dollar, 5 dollar, 10 dollar, 20 dollar, 50 dollar, and 100 dollar notes (Banknote News).
• Pakistan's new banknote designs "finalized" (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Denver Coin Club Show, Golden, CO, Aug 15-16 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Wichita Show, Wichita, KS, Aug 15-16 (Coinshows-USA).
• Carson City Mint Coin Show, Carson City, NV, Aug 15-16 (Carson City Museum).
• Beaumont Coin Club Show, Orange, TX, Aug 15-16 (Coinshows-USA).
• Tyler Coin Show, Tyler, TX, Aug 15-16 (Tyler Coin Club).
• Florence Coin Show, Florence, OR, Aug 16-17 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 16

• Naugatuck, CT; Largo, FL; Albuquerque, NM; Wasaga Beach, ON; Schaefferstown, PA; Schertz, TX
  Keswick, VA

​​      August 17

• Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; North Attleboro, MA; Livonia, MI; South Saint Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH
  Old Bridge, NJ; Hilliard, OH; Toledo, OH; Langhorne, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, August 12 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, August 12 (HA).
• Spink World Banknote Auction, August 12 (Spink).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, August 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• Archives International Auction 105B, August 26 (AIA).
• 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).
• Heritage U. S. Error Currency Showcase Auction, August 31 (HA).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 2 (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

• Koenig & Bauer's 2Q 2025 report (Investing.com).

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

• Nigerian traders count their losses from counterfeits (All Africa).
• "Black money" scam in Taiwan (Taipei Times).
• Robbers duped by toy notes (MS News).
• Tajikistan looks to Germany's Bundesbank for help fighting counterfeiting (ASIA-Plus).

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