News & Notes Volume XII, No. 2

June 23, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Various Pieces on Private Currency

• The Private Issue of Token Coins (Political Science Quarterly). Pdf at link. From 1901.
• The Use of Private Tokens for Money in the United States (Quarterly Journal of Economics). Pdf at link. From 1917.
• Scrip Money and Slump Cures: Iowa's Experiments with Alternative Currency during the Great Depression (Annals of Iowa). Pdf at link. From 2005.
• Regional Currency in Germany (Deutsche Bundesbank). Pdf at link. From 2006.
• Private Money in Our Past, Present, and Future (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland). Pdf available at link. From 2007.
• Where is Private Note Issue Legal? (Cato Institute). Pdf at link. From 2012.
• Russian-American Company Scrip, 1816-1852 (Fort Ross Conservancy). Pdf at link.

Currency Coming and Going

• Banknotes: The Credit Card Format (PrintingIndustry).
• Nawaz Sharif on Pakistani currency? (Pakistan Today).
• Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority to replace royals with Olympic hero on its banknotes (WIC News).
• A "Naira Ambassadors Club to promote respect for currency" (Vanguard).
• Why the $250 bill would be good … For criminals! (North Country Public Radio).
• Cubans look in vain for the 5000 peso bill (Cuba Headlines).
• The Legality of Specie Today (Numismatic News).
• Cash use and "personalized pricing" (MSN).
• Polish Banking During Capitalist Transition (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Currency fracturing in Sudan (Sudan Tribune). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The CFA Franc Is Not a Currency. It Is a Constitutional Constraint (All Africa).
• Oman's demonetization plans (MRI Bankers' Guide).

The Business of Collecting

• Highlights of the Jack Copeland Collection of Texas nationals (Stack's Bowers).
• Collection Inspiration: Deer (PMG).
• PMG Note of the Month: Qatar 22 Riyals (PMG).
• Christie's offers high-denomination rarities (PMG).
• A Grand Old Flag (ANA "Reading Room").
• The Bata Collection of Greek specimen notes (Stack's Bowers).
• 1901 $10 Bison Note: The Frontier Icon That Replaced a Battleship (Coinweek).
• Highlights of Archives International Auction 114 (E-Sylum).
• BOOK: Paper Money in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, 1900-2026 (E-Sylum).
• Highlights from the upcoming Noonans sale (PMG).
• The 5 mark note featuring German writer & omposer Bettina von Arnim (Banknote World).
• The 50 Zlotych Banknote Dedicated to Polish King Casimir III the Great (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• What's New in Banknotes, June and July 2026 (Numismatic News).
• Nepal issues a new 500 rupee note (Ratopati).
• Solomon Islands commemorative 50 dollar note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• The Collectorama Show, Lakeland, FL, June 25-27 (The Collectorama Show).
• Greater Chicago Coin Show, Countryside, IL, June 25-27 (Coinzip)
• The Vegas National, Las Vegas, NV, June 25-27 (CK Shows).
• The Santa Clara Coin Show, Santa Clara, CA, June 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Colorado Springs Coin Show, Colorado Springs, CO, June 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).
• 52nd Annual Raleigh  Money Expo, Raleigh, NC, June 27-28 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      June 27

• Naugatuck, CT; St. Louis / Bridgeton MO; Schertz, TX

      June 28

• San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Peotone, IL; Devens, MA; Livonia, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY
  Cincinnati, OH; Westlake, OH; Woodstock, ON; Pittsburgh, PA; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• Collectors' Choice Online Auction, July 1 (Stack's Bowers).
• 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).
• July 2026 Collectors' Choice - Jack Copeland Auction, July 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Confederate Currency Auction, July 12 (HA).
• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 15 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).
• RCNA Annual Convention, Winnipeg, MB, July 14-18 (Canadian Coin News).
• 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

• Ethiopia's plans to print its currency at home (The Bizlens).

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

• Theft uncovered with CCTV and banknote serial number tracking (AsiaOne).
• Youtube how-to videos and counterfeiting (MENAFN).
• Out-thinking money launderers with machine learning (USC Viterbi).
• True Crime: The First Public Enemy No.1 in the United States (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Counterfeit Detection: Egyptian Notes With Altered Serial Numbers (PMG).

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