News & Notes Volume XII, No. 18

October 13, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  The Case for Cash from CashEssentials

   (Advocacy group promoting the use of physical paper money.)

• Four Places Where Cash Should Definitely Be Accepted. From 2026.
• The Role of High Denomination Notes- Myths and Facts. From 2026.
• The End of Money? Lessons from Burning Man’s Moneyless Economy. From 2026.
• How Currency Wars and Crises Are Reshaping Cash. From 2026.
• Cash, Gold, and Crypto: Safe Havens in an Age of Uncertainty. From 2025.
• Cash vs. AI: The Battle for Financial Supremacy. From 2025.
• Auschwitz and the Role of Money in Nazi Concentration Camps. From 2025.

Currency Coming and Going

• Philippines Addresses Cash Needs (Numismatic News).
• Fun fact about Welsh banknote signatures (Nation Cymru).
• Musician Zeze Kingstone disrespects the kwacha (Nyasa Times).
• A Bolivian banknote dedicated to the Tilcayo? (Red Uno, in Spanish).
• Sweden sets limit for old banknote redemption (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cambodian banknote rumors (Camboja News).
• Ghana cautions against using taped or repaired banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Dim outlook for a Tubman $20 bill (Numismatic News).
• Argentine rules about accepting damaged or torn banknotes (BAE Negocios, in Spanish).
• Why Germans love cash more than anyone else in Europe (The Times).
• Is Winston Churchill more important than a Hedgehog? (Chris Skinner).
• Korean banknote designers' art show (Seoul Economic Daily).
• Complementary currencies, they're still around (Numismatic News).

The Business of Collecting

• The Portgual Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Serial Number Ranges for $2 1928 Red Seals (Numismatic News).
• Series of 1882 $50 & $100 Gold Certificates (Stack's Bowers).
• Jamaica's Nanny of the Maroons (Banknote World).
• President Suharto on Indonesia's 50,000 rupiah note (Banknote World).
• Selections from the upcoming Copenhagen Sale (Stack's Bowers).
• Selections from Noonan's upcoming banknote specimen auction (E-Sylum).
• Czechia honors King Charles IV, Holy Roman emperor (Banknote World).
• Big Wig (American Numismatic Association).
• The Italian banknotes meant for Egypt (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).

New Banknote Issues

• Bank of England announces the creatures appearing on new banknote designs (Bank of England).
• Some "wild facts" about Britain's new banknote denizens (Grimsby Live).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Rome Coin Show, Rome GA, October 16-17 (Coinshows-USA).
• Johnson Cty Numismatic Society Coin Show, Lenexa KS, October 16-17 (JCNS).
• Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement TX, October 16-17 (J Fitz Shows).
• Edmonton Coin Show, Edmonton AB, October 17-18 (Canadian Coin News).
• Heartland Coin Show, El Cajon CA, October 17-18 (Heartland Coin Club).
• The Inland Empire Coin Show, Coeur d'Alene ID, October 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Jacksonville Coin Show, Jacksonville NC, October 17-18 (Coinzip).
• Regina Coin Club Show, Regina SK, October 17-18 (Canadian Coin News).
• Vienna Coin Show, Vienna VA, October 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).

      October 17

• Scottsdale, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Tampa, FL; Lafayette, IN; South Bend, IN; Owensboro, KY; Grand Haven, MI
  Highland, MI; Brandon, MS; Trois-Rivières, QC; Hurricane, WV

   October 18

• Tucson, AZ; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Dubuque, IA; Orono, ME; Lansing, MI; Livonia, MI; New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Dartmouth Crossing, NS; Hilliard, OH; Norwalk, OH; Stratford, ON; Trenton, ON; Langhorne, PA; Woonsocket, RI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• China Banknotes and Coins, October 15 (Spink).
• The Caine Collection of Obsolete Banknotes, October 15 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 18 (GreatCollections).
• Heritage Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, October 18 (HA).
• World Banknote Auction, October 19 (Spink).
• China and Hong Kong Banknote Auction, October 21 (Spink).
• Collectors Choice U.S. Currency Auction, October 21 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, October 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Jack Copeland Collection, 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).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, Session A, October 29 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, Session B, October 30 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fractional Currency Showcase Auction, November 1 (HA).
• World Premier Collectors Choice, November 2 (Stack's Bowers).

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

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

• Counterfeit detection via smartphone (Korea.net).
• Sudan withdraws old bills because of counterfeiting concerns (All Africa).
• A cache of fraudulent CFA francs (Seneweb).
• French authorities seize Bojarski counterfeit trove before it is auctioned (Liberation, in French). May be gated.

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