News & Notes Volume XII, No. 21

November 3, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

 College Currency

• College Currency in 19th Century America (PMG). From 2016.
• College Currency (Nebraska Numismatic Association, via NNP). Pdf at link. From 1998.
• A Collector's View of College Currency (The Numismatist, via NNP). Pdf at link. From 1993.
• Generic College Currency (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1985,
• College Currency Part I, and Part II and Part III and Part IV (Paper Money). Pdfs at links. From 1978-1984.

Currency Coming and Going

• Lucien Horowitz and the 500 Lei Banknote (American Foreign Service Association).
• Bouga Is Turning Old Egyptian Banknotes Into Bags (Scoop Empire).
• Economic war in the Sudan (Sudan Tribune).
• The Honam Line and Shibusawa Eiichi (Korea JoongAng Daily).
• The princess on Canada's 1917 dollar bill (Discover Estevan).
• American Airlines Flies to Fort Wayne to Collect 20 Years of Foreign Parking Meter Coins (WOWO).
• The Original Black Friday (Quartz).
• Reforming France’s ‘Ancien Régime’ Finances (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Drones, dollars and baby food (Science Literarcy Project). On the virtues of polymer.

The Business of Collecting

• Possible Rare Notes in 2027 (Numismatic News).
• Ibercoin to Auction Nearly 5,000 World Banknotes in November (Numismatic News).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 268, November 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
• Selections from Joel Shafer Auction #1 (E-Sylum).
• The Jinxed Face Plates of the Annville National Bank (Numismatic News).
• The Danzig Privat-Actien-Bank and its 50 Thaler note of 1865 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Hong Kong as a notaphilic travel destination (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Cemetery money of the Catholic parish of Delmenhorst (Gelescheine-online, in German).
• Honoring Uzbekistan's Amir Timur Museum (Banknote World).
• A survey of pre-euro European banknotes (Banknote World).
• A rare Treasury Note of 1891 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's offers a rare Zanzibar note (Stack's Bowers).

New Banknote Issues

• New Honduran lempira notes to be sourced from Poland (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ghana's new banknote launch briefly delayed (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• New Trans-Dniester 100 ruble note (Banknote News).
• New Kyrgyzstan 20 som and 50 som notes (Banknote News).
• Samoa's 100 tala commemorative honoring QE II (Banknote World)

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• CoinX St. Louis, St. Louis MO, November 4-7 (CoinX).
• Richmond Coin and Currency Show, Richmond VA, November 5-7 (RCC).
• Gadsden/Rainbow City Coin Show, Gadsden AL, November 6-7 (Greater Gadsden).
• Sacramento Coin Show, Mclellan CA, November 6-7 (Coinshows-USA).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang OK, November 6-7 (Coinzip).
• Midlands Coin Club Show, Columbia SC, November 6-7 (Midlands Coin Club).
• Nuphilex Show, Pointe-Claire QC, November 7-8 (Canadian Coin News).
• Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine TX, November 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
• Vienna Coin Show, Vienna VA, November 7-8 (Vienna Coin Club).

      November 7

• Brandon, FL; St. Anthony, MN; Canton, OH; Schnecksville, PA; Knoxville, TN; Ridgeley, WV

      November 8

• Chino, CA; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marrietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN
  Auburn, MA; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Hicksville, NY; Springfield, OH
  Windsor, ON; Meadvillle, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA; Brookfield, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, November 3 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, November 3 (HA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, November 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Dahlia Collection of U.S. Paper Money, November 8 (GreatCollections).
• Joel Shafer Auction #1 (Joel Shafer Auctions). New website seems finicky.
• Heritage Fall Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, November 15 (HA).
• Asturica Worldwide Banknote Collection #139, November 17 (Ibercoin).
• Cifuentes South American Banknote Collection #140, November 18 (Ibercoin).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 3, November 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 5, November 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 7, November 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• World Banknotes Online Auction #141, November 19 (Ibercoin).
• Emporium Hamburg Auction 113, November 27 (Emporium Hamburg).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, December 5-6 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Numismata Berlin, Berlin Germany, November 14-15 (Numismata).
• FUN Show, Orlando FL, January 7-10, 1927 (Coinshows-UA).
• New York International Coin Convention, NYC, January 15-17, 2027 (NYINC).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Aging KOMSCO equipment risks disrupting South Korea currency supply (Chosun Biz).
• SARS plan to make cigarettes more like banknotes in South Africa (Daily Investor).
• The current state of polymer usage (Makreo Research /PRLOG).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• High Security Printing-Asia, Hong Kong, China, November 30-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

• Souvenir banknotes are being passed for the real thing in Belarus (Nasha Niva).
• Counterfeit dong notes in Vietnam (Vietnam.nv).
• The Man With The Hat (Aontacht Media).
• Bali police destroy counterfeit banknotes (Bali Discovery).
• A "rip-deal" scheme falls apart in Austria (Vienna.at).
• The fake Iraqi dinar problem (The New Arab).

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