News & Notes Volume XII, No. 13

September 8, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Selection of Posts from Bank Underground
(Bank of England's staff blog; selections with an historical angle)

• The quiet legacy of the Bank of England Act 1946. From 2026.
• War and payment innovation: the adoption of paper currency in Britain. From 2025.
• New money, old money. From 2024.
• Old problems with new assets. From 2022.
• Eliminating high denomination notes and making the mob miserable. From 2017.
• The Bank Charter Act goes on trial in 1847. From 2016.
• Halting a Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890. From 2016.

Currency Coming and Going

• Syria's new currency replacement (Enab Baladi).
• Syrian banknote shortages (Kurd Press).
• Oman issues reminder about upcoming banknote redemption deadline (Zawya).
• Hue landmarks on a Vietnamese banknote (Vietnamnet).
• Iraq considers dinar redenomination (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Recent trends in French banknote circulation (Banque de France).
• Dutch gold on the move (Coinweek).
• Lee Jong-sang, painter of Korea's currency portraits, passes away (Chosun).
• Sudan's "Gold Savings Pound" (Sudanhorizon).
• How the Dollar Became American (The Daily Economy).
• Washington Trust: The Rhode Island bank serving its community since 1800 (10WJAR).
• A 1690s Stock Market Bubble (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Has the Chinese yuan's rise in global usage hit a wall? (Peterson Institute).
• How war turned captivity into Sudan’s ransom economy currency (Arab News).
• Cashless Europe hits a wall (GIS).

The Business of Collecting

• Indian Notes Recovered from Shipwrecks (Numismatic News).
• The ANA's 2026 numismatic literary awards (Coinweek).
• How Serial Numbers Work on Series of 1929 National Bank Notes (Stack's Bowers).
• The Molshof Collection of World Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
• Max and Moritz remembered on notegeld (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Victoria Cleland's limited signature on the new British banknotes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 266, September 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
• Payment vouchers of the East German Inter-hotels (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Egypt 5 Pounds Banknote Honoring the Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Banknote World).
• The 2,000 Nuevos Pesos Banknote Dedicated to Uruguayan Painter Juan Manuel Blanes (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• Canada's new $20 note (Banknote News). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (BBC).
• Ukraine issues its new 2,000 hryvnia note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Romania to release a numismatic product (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• CoinExpo San Jose, San Jose CA, September 11-12 (Griffin Coins).
• Lafayette Coin Show, Lafayette LA, September 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Duncan Coin Show, Duncan OK, September 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• National Battlefield Coin Show, Gettysburg PA, September 11-12 (America's Coin Shows).
• The West Tennessee Coin Show, Jackson TN, September 11-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Buena Park Coin Show, Buena Park CA, September 12-13 (Pacific Expos).
• National Postage Stamp & Coin Show, Mississauga ON, September 12-13 (Canadian Coin News).
• Midwest Gold and Silver Coin Show, Sioux Falls SD, September 12-13 (AMA Coins).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 12

• Burnaby, BC; Hudson, FL; Largo, FL; Irvine, KY; Walker, MI; Roseville, MN; Monroe City, MO
  Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH; Richardson, TX; Tacoma, WA

   September 13

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL
  Indianapolis, IN; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Independence, MO; Burlington Twp, NJ; Albany, NY
  Melville, NY; Fairview Park, OH; Wilsonville, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA; Eau Claire, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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 9 (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 Granville Collection of 1901 $10 Bison 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).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 20 (GreatCollections).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 20 (GreatCollections).
• Maastricht Showcase Auction - Session 1, October 1 (Stack's Bowers).
• Maastricht Showcase Auction - Session 2 - The Molshof Collection, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong World Paper Money Showcase Auction, October 3 (HA).
• A Special Offering of Large Size Currency Showcase Auction, October 4 (HA).
• British and Irish Banknotes, October 14 (Noonans Mayfair).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).
• Great American Coin & Collectibles Show, Rosemont IL, September 30-October 3 (GACC).
• PAN Fall Coin Show, Monroeville PA, October 22-24 (PAN).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• CCL Secure joins the Cumbria Chamber of Commerce (Yahoo News).
• De La Rue and South Sudan have a memorandum of understanding (eye radio).
• KOMSCO recyles banknote waste into "lifestyle products" (The Korea Post).
• Bangladesh's banknote printing costs nearly double (Ittefaq).

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

• Fake banknotes on windshields set up auto robberies (iefimerida).
• Underground bankers in the drug trade (Eurasia Review).

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