News & Notes Volume XII, No. 17

October 6, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Selections from the North Carolina Numismatic Association Journal

   (Each link is to a pdf file of an entire journal issue; scroll to find the article.)

• Dick Gregory- Comedian, Presidential Contender & Numismatist. From 2025.
• An Advertising Note of J. L. Fulkerson, Salem NC. From 2024.
• William Joseph Galston: Portrait of a Tar Heel. From 2023.
• A Neat Little Find: The Bank of North America. From 2023.
• Confederate Treasury Notes: The Signers and Their Stories. From 2022.
• Wolf Scalp Reciepts: A Different Kind of Money. From 2022.
• Asheville Merchants Association Depression Scrip of 1933. From 2020.

Currency Coming and Going

• Charred dong still good in Vietnam (Vietnam.vn).
• Bad Belarusian dog (Nasha Niva).
• A bisected banknote (Newstrack).
• Czech constitutional amendment would preserve the koruna as the national currency (Constitutionnet).
• Hell Money: why people need currency for the Chinese afterlife (Dangerous Minds).
• West Darfiur authorities force traders to use Sudanese banknotes (Radio Tamazuj).
• A Canadian prof's input into the new $20 note (CBC).
• Sudan to retire old 500 pound banknotes (Sudan Tribune).
• Indonesian artwork incorporates banknote waste (Antarafoto).
• Scottish and Northern Ireland banknote issuance for 2026 (Bank of England).
• How Gandhi got on the Indian rupee (News18).
• Cambodia rejects claims of banknote-related duress (Khmer Times).
• Hand-painted Scottish banknote designs donated to charity (The Scotsman).
• BOOK: Paper Money in Imperial China (E-Sylum).

The Business of Collecting

• Highlights of Stack's upcoming October Hong Kong auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Banking and banknotes in Netcong, New Jersey (Numismatic News).
• The American Numismatic Society begins renovating its Toledo headquarters (ANS).
• The Gibraltar 5 Pounds Banknote Dedicated to Tariq ibn Ziyad (Banknote World).
• Inside the Fady Nassif Collection of Middle Eastern Currency (Intelligent Collector).
• Selections from the Caine Collection of obsolete banknotes (E-Sylum).
• Spanish Civil War currency (E-Sylum).
• From the upcoming Jack Copeland Collection auction, Part III (Stack's Bowers).
• Certified Collectibles restricts grading submissions from Russia and Belarus (PMG).
• Pakistani banknotes honoring the Islamia College University (Banknote World).
• Korean banknotes Featuring Sejong the Great (Banknote World).
• A pride-themed banknote collectible in the Netherlands (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Canada's new $20 note (Banknote World).
• Paraguay's new guarani banknotes (The Ascuncion Times). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Iran honors victims of U.S. strike on school (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Solomon Islands' "improved" $100 note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cambodia's 50,000 and 100,000 riel notes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• A new South Ossetia note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Denver Coin Expo, Denver CO, October 8-10 (Rocky Mountain Expos).
• Contra Costa Coin Show, Walnut Creek CA, October 9-10 (Diablo Numismatic Society).
• Virginia Beach Coin Show, Virgina Beach VA, October 9-10 (Tidewater Coin Club).
• Northwest Coin Club Fall Show, Brooklyn Center MN, October 9-11 (NWCC).
• Pensacola Coin and Currency Show, Milton FL, October 10-11 (Coinzip).
• The Wilkes-Barre Coin Show, Pittston PA, October 10-11 (Coinshows-USA).

      October 10

• Clearwater, FL; Jackson, MI; Walker, MI; Hamilton, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH; Florence, SC

   October 11

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Plantation, FL; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN
  Cockeysville, MD; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Hicksville, NY; Wapakoneta, OH; Rickreal, OR
  Falls Creek, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• CGB Live Auction, October 6 (CGB Numismatique).
• GACC Currency Signature Auction, October 6-9 (HA).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 59, October 9 (Crown Currency).
• Heritage Fall Obsolete Currency Auction, October 11 (HA)
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 11 (GreatCollections)
• British and Irish Banknotes, October 14 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Hong Kong, Macau, World Banknotes, October 14 (Spink).
• World Paper Money Signature Auction, October 14-15 (HA).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 18 (GreatCollections).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, October 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, October 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, October 24 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, October 24 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session E, October 25 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 25 (GreatCollections).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• PAN Fall Coin Show, Monroeville PA, October 22-24 (PAN).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Numismata Berlin, Berlin Germany, November 14-15 (Numismata).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Kenya approves De La Rue Kenya stake acquisition by Mauritius firm (People Daily).
• Uflex and Spectra Systems bid for Indian polymer banknote program (Packaging South Asia)

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Ghanaians arrested for making banknote bouquets (Nile Post).
• Minneapolis bank teller swaps motion picture money for the real stuff (The Daily Hodl).

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