News & Notes Volume XII, No. 1

June 16, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Morocco

• The Moroccan Banknote (Bank Al-Maghrib).
• Morocco--Emergency Banknotes of World War II (The Banknote Den). From 2026.
• Morocco--King Mohammed V, 1909-1961 (Banknote Den).
• Remembering King Hassan II of Morocco Through Numismatics (Banknote World). From 2024.
• Morocco Banknote History (Banknote World). From 2021.
• World War II Spanish Occupied Tangier Note (Stack's Bowers). From 2020.
• The History of Morocco's Currency (Yabiladi). From 2019.
• The Notes of the Rif Revolt (IBNS). From 2003. Pdf at link.
• Kings of Morocco on Banknotes (IBNS). From 2002. Pdf at link.
• The Monetary System of French Morocco, by Antonio Dore, MA Thesis (American University). From 1952. Pdf at link.

Currency Coming and Going

• Don't flaunt your $100s in Trinidad & Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago Guardian).
• Oman reminds public of banknote redemption deadline (ZAWYA).
• Money in Transition (European Central Bank).
• The New Syrian Currency: Observations on the Ground (Middle East Forum).
• Czech National Bank's currency plans for 2026 (CNB).
• How Fake Money Built America (Blockworks Daily).
• The pause in $2 bill printing (New York Post).
• The Currency Crisis of 1920s France (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Sailors Need Cash Too (Cash Essentials).

The Business of Collecting

• A retired banker and his currency collection (ETV Bharat).
• Museum of American Finance Opens in Boston (E-Sylum).
• Newman Numismatic Portal moves to a new platform (E-Sylum).
• The "last frontier in numismatics" (Stack's Bowers).
• A pricey Palestine Currency Board note (PMG).
• Dr. Harcourt Fuller's "Black Money" exhibit (Numismatic News).
• Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill? (The Collector).
• Christie's to auction high denomination Federal Reserve notes (Numsmatic News).
• Rare Middle Eastern notes highlight recent auctions (Numismatic News).
• Poland's Chief of State Józef Piłsudski on a numsimatic product (Banknote World).
• The Swiss banknote featuring  Genevan Geologist & Meteorologist Horace Bénédict de Saussure (Banknote World).
• QR codes on banknotes (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
• Misprints of the East German 50 mark note of 1971 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Collecting zero-euro banknotes (Numismatic News).
• Coin Show Etiquette (SIXBID).

New Banknote Issues

• Qatar's new and modified banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Paraguay's progress on new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ukraine's commemorative-slogan note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Belarus' new 200 ruble note (Banknote News).
• Abkhazia's 200 aspar note (Banknote News).
• A Philippines "numismatic product" (Banknote News).
• An Iranian 1 million riyal cheque marking elementary school airstrike (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• North Star Numismatic Expo, Shakopee, MN, Jun 18-20 (North Star Expos).
• Gadsden-Rainbow City Coin Show, Gadsden, AL, Jun 19-20 (Greater Gadsden).
• Citrus County Coin Club Show, Crystal River, FL, Jun 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).
• Houston Summer Coin Show, Houston, TX, Jun 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      June 20

• Phoenix, AZ; Gardena, CA; Beaverton, ON; Paris, TX; Kent, WA

      June 21

• Van Nuys, CA; Greenacres, FL; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; North Attleboro, MA; New Baltimore, MI
  South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY
  Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA 

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16 (HA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• Asian Banknotes Auction, June 19 (Noonans Mayfair).
• 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).
• Archives International Auction 114, June 23 (AIA).
• Bank of Scotland McTominay Charity Auction, June 26 (Spink).
• America250 Colonial Currency Auction, July 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• China, Hong Kong, and World Banknotes Auction, July 3 (Spink).
• CGB Live Auction, July 7 (CGB Numismatique).
• British and Irish Banknote Auction, July 8 (Noonans Mayfair).

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

• Royal Dutch Kusters Engineering – Where Banknote Destruction Meets Sustainability (Currency News).
• De La Rue's Malta facility (De La Rue).
• A De La Rue-sponsored writing pen made with shredded banknotes (De La Rue).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Form).
• The Silk Road Cash & Payments Conference, Almaty,  Kazakhstan, September 15-17, 2026 (Currency Research).
• The Coin Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 28-20, 2026 (The Coin Conference).
• Intergraf Currency + Identity, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-16, 2026 (Biometric Update).
• Island Nations Currency & Payments Settlement, Nadi, Fiji, October 26-28, 2026 (Currency Research).
• High Security Printing-Asia, Hong Kong, China, November 3-December 2, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• Optical & Digital Document Security, Berlin, Germany, January 25-27, 2027 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing-EMEA, Vienna, Austria, March 1-3, 2027 (Reconnaissance).
• The Currency Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 24-26, 2027 (Currency Research).
• High Security Printing-Americas, Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9, 2027 (Reconnaissance).

From the Annals of Crime

• The Evolving Challenge of Movie Money (Crane Currency).
• Azerbaijan's counterfeit record for 2025 (Trend News Agency).
• The "stranded tourist" scam in Atlanta (ANF).
• The Trust Deficit: India's Fake-Degree Crisis and the Challenge of Credential Integrity (IndraStra).

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