News & Notes Volume XII, No. 12

September 1, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Currency-Related Articles from Heritage Auction's "The Intelligent Collector"

• Local Notes, National Figures . From 2026.
• Rediscovering the Artist Behind America’s Most Beautiful Banknote. From 2025.
• America’s Inaugural Federal Reserve Note Proof Archive Heads to Auction. From 2025.
• When Owning Gold Was Illegal. From 2024.
• The $1,000 Bill Worth $250,000. From 2023.
• The Epic Rarity from Wailuku (Hawaiian territorial national bank note). From 2023.
• The Del Monte Note. From 2021.
• Santa Claus Notes. From 2020.
• Hiding in Plain Sight (the Seychelles "Sex Note"). From 2020.
• Great Imperial Notes (Japan). From 2019.
• $2 Federal Reserve Note (serial no. 1) From 2016.

Currency Coming and Going

• Pakistan's plans to phase out low-denomination currency (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The ingenious bill of exchange in everyday German commerce (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Sweden raises the administrative fee charged for redeeming obsolete banknotes (Sveriges Riksbank).
• After 35 years, Somalia seeks to restore the shilling (Business Insider).
• Interview with Barry Eichengreen (World Finance).
• Making Waves (International Monetary Fund).
• Panic, Profit, and the Collapse of Iran's Rial (Iranweb).
• Iraq denies issuing redenominated bills (Iraqi News).
• Sarawak's Past Preserved in a Dollar (Sarawak Tribune).
• Bangladesh's worn banknote problem (Prothom Alo).
• Vietnam's new currency management regulations (Vietnam.vn).
• Euro banknotes: a chance to be bold about European identity (East Anglia Bylines).
• Polymer vs. paper in Malaysian banknote circulation (Newsnav)

The Business of Collecting

• The NEW Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP).
• Selections from the upcoming Archives International Auction 116 (E-Sylum).
• New Edition: Security Features on World Banknotes (E-Sylum).
• Isaac Newton on Britain's 1 pound note (Banknote World).
• Gago Coutinho, Portuguese Geographer, Naval Officer & Aviation Pioneer (Banknote World).
• 1899 $2 Silver Certificate: The “Mini-Porthole” Note With a Rare Taft-Era Signature Pair (Coinweek).
• Islamic Philosopher & Poet Muhammad Iqbal on Pakistan's 1 rupee note (Banknote World).
• Highlights from the upcoming Schwenk Family auctions at GreatCollections (PMG).
• Rare Caribbean notes at upcoming MDC Monaco auction (PMG).
• Dag Hammarskjöld''s legacy on currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Collection Inspiration: Lighthouses (PMG). See also this News & Notes feature from 2021 (SPMC).
• British printer models to be offered by Stack's at auction (Stack's Bowers).
• The numismatics of Lake Ontario (Canadian Coin News).
• Garry Perkins, Cincinnati coin dealer, RIP (Cincinnati.com).

New Banknote Issues

• Canada's upcoming new $20 banknote reveal (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Bank of Canada).
• Azerbaijan's new 100 manat note (Banknote News)
• Sao Tome and Principe's 50 dobra commemorative (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• North Central Arkansas Stamp & Coin Show, Mountain Home, AR, September 4-5 (Coinshows-USA).
• Ohio State Coin Show, Dublin, OH, September 4-5 (CONA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 5

• Lancaster, PA; Knoxville, TN; Norfolk, VA; Lakewood, WA

   September 6

• Chino, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA; Wyandotte, MI
  Independence, MO; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH; North Huntingdon, PA 

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Noonans World Banknote Auction, September 2-3 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 3, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 4, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 7, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 8, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session D, September 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session E, Golden Falcon Collection, September 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, September 6 (HA).
• MDC Monaco Auction, September 6 (SIXBID)..
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 8 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Internet Auction, September 8 (CGB Numismatique).
• Archives International Auction 116, September 9 (AIA).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 58, September 10 (Crown Currency).
• Celebration of Stars--U.S. Currency Auction, September 10 (Lyn Knight).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 13 (GreatCollections).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 13 (GreatCollections).
• World Collectors Choice Auction, September 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• A Special Offering of Large Size Currency, September 20 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).
• Great American Coin & Collectibles Show, Rosemont IL, September 30-Otober 3 (GACC).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• China, Pakistan, animal fat, and India's new polymer banknotes (News18). Also here (Money Control).
• The Global Polymer Banknote Substrate Market (Open PR).
• Pricing banknote security (drupa).
• Uganda revives plan to produce own currency (ChimpReports).

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

• Yet another "money-wash" scheme (Seneweb).
• A "tampered" note in Singapore (Asia One).
• An inside job at the Punjab National Bank (The Economic Times).

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