News & Notes Volume XII, No. 3

June 30, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Visit to the Newly-Updated Currency Den Website

--Roland Rollins' growing archive of his published articles, and other materials--

• Banknotes with Images NOT from Country (click through to thirteen different articles on this offbeat topic).
• Paper Money Test Notes (click through to twelve different articles on test notes).
• Printers, Vignettes, & Security Devices (click through to sixteen different articles on these topics).
• IBNS's Bank Note of the Year (click through to nominations for the BNOY award, arranged by year).
• Books & actalogs published by Roland Rollins.
• A gallery ot test note types.

Currency Coming and Going

• Paris Menswear Week features banknote bag accessories (Vogue Adria).
• The billions of shekels languishing in Palestinian bank vaults (Times of Israel).
• A Bangladesh proposal to retire large denomination notes to "flush out undisclosed cash" (The Business Standard).
• How a 500 won banknote helped found the South Korean shipping industry (Space Daily).
• Sudan Edges Closer to Currency Split (Asharq al-Awsa).
• Why Rwanda is Retiring Millions of Older Banknotes (KT Press).
• The dim prospects for eurozone enlargement (Reuters).

The Business of Collecting

• New Signature, New Collector's Item? (Numismatic News).
• BOOK: Banknotes Salvaged, Looted or Lost in Transit - 2026 (Currency Den).
• Rhodesia Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• The Halifax Regional Coin Club (Penticton Herald).
• Netherlands Indies Currency (Heritage Auctions, via E-Sylum).
• Whaling Vignettes (Heritage Auctions, via E-Sylum).
• A Black Eagle silver certificate takes flight (Coinweek).
• What's on the Front of My Dollar Bill? A Primer (Coinweek).
• Texas "Gold Foil" numismatic products (Coinweek).
• Stack's offers an 1863 $20 Gold Certificate (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's offers rare Tunisian banknote (Stack's Bowers).
• A Remarkable 1934A $1,000 Federal Reserve Note (Stack's Bowers).
• Currency Portraits: Immanuel Kant (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• "Erich's Lamp Shop" on an East German banknote (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Notgeld of the Thursday Bowling Club in the town of Rohwinkel (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The 10,000 guaranies banknote featuring  the first dictator of Paraguay (Banknote World).
• Leonhard Euler on a Swiss 10 franc note (Banknote World).
• The Colombian banknote featuring poet & novelist José Asunción Silva (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• Solomon Islands marks 50 years of its central bank (Solomon Star).
• A new variety of Haiti's 500 gourde note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The Philippines' 3000 piso commemorative (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Abkhazia's 200 apsar commemorative (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Austin Airport Coin and Currency Show, Austin, TX, July 3-4 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      July 5

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA
  Independence, MO; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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 2 (Spink).
• 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).
• World Premier Collectors' Choice Auction, July 21 (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

• Banque de France's efforts to decarbonize banknotes (PrintIndustry News).
• How Nepal produces Japan's banknote paper (India Tribune).
• Reverse ATMs (Harian Basis).
• Crane Currency celebrates a milestone (iBerkshires).

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

• Thai customs officials open some tasty snack boxes (The Nation).
• Mykonos drug ring needed banknote-counter to process earnings (ekathimerini.com).
• "Discrediting the military" with a banknote stamp (Caucasian Knot).
• A prop money scam in Macau (Macau Daily Times).

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