News & Notes Volume XII, No. 5

July 14, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Money, Currency, and Banking in New Zealand

• History of New Zealand Banking, Part I. Here is Part II (PMG).
• New Zealand Banknote History (Banknote World).
• Edmund Hillary & The New Zealand 5 Dollar Banknote (Banknote World).
• Sir Edmund Hillary (The Banknote Den).
• Kate Sheppard on a Kiwi $10 note (Banknote World).
• Āpirana Ngata on a Kiwi $50 note (Banknote World).
• New Zealand's First Government Issue of Bank Notes (Paper Money.) Pdf at link.
• The New Zealand Reserve Bank Notes of 1940 (Paper Money). Pdf at link.
• Fifty-Pound Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (IBNS). Pdf at link.
• The Legal History of Money in New Zealand (Reserve Bank of New Zealand). Pdf at link.
• The Reserve Bank and New Zealand's Economic History (Reserve Bank of New Zealand).
• New Zealand's Early Monetary History and the Colonial Bank of Issue, 1840-1856 (Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics). Pdf at link. 

Currency Coming and Going

• Riddle me this: A perpetual bond with zero-coupon (muula).
• Philippines central bank reminds the public of the obvious (philstar).
• Keep cedi notes clean! (GhanaWeb).
• Nigeria insists its 100 naira note is still good (Solace Base).
• Dutch Bankers and Early American Credit (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Noonans auctions some rare serial numbers (Numismatic News).
• Hunting for Banknotes in Huntingburg, Indiana (Numismatic News).
• BOOK: Register of Confederate Treasury Notes (E-Sylum).
• Highlights of Stack's upcoming Collectors Choice auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights of Stack's upcoming Canadian banknote sale (Stack's Bowers).
• CCG, KM, and Pick (Coinweek).
• A guide to fancy serial numbers (Banknote World).
• Brazilian physician & scientist Carlos Chagas on a 10 Cruzado banknote (Banknote World).
• Will Trump's Signature Become Collectible? (Numismatic News).
• Banknotes featuring famous artists (The Collector).
• Currency Portraits: Genghis Khan (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Notgeld of Suttrop and Warstein in 1947-48 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Principality of Monaco in the Shadow of Fasces and Swastika (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• The new Eastern Caribbean $10 note feature James Ronald Webster (The Daily Herald). Here's the entire range of the new EC banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Reasons for Ukraine's new 2,000 hryvnia note (Ukrainian News). Here's what it looks like (MRI Bankers' Guide). Vasyl Stus, Ukraine's dissident writer (Kyiv Independent). Also here (Banknote News).
• A Philippines numismatic product (Banknote News).
• A new Russian 100 ruble note (Banknote News).
• Solomon Islands 50 dollar commemorative (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Reno Coin Show, Reno NV, July 17-18 (NorCal Coin Shows).
• Alabama Numismatic Society Convention, Bessemer AL, July 17-19 (ANS).
• Fort Smith Coin Show, Fort Smith AR, July 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
• Coinarama, San Diego CA, July 18-19 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      July 18

• Naugatuck, CT; Albuquerque, NM CANCELLED; Rockville, VA; Lakewood, WA; Woodruff, WI
  Hurricane, WV

   July 19

• Tucson, AZ; San Fernando, CA; Vacaville, CA; Cromwell, CT; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Crystal Lake, IL
  North Attleboro, MA; New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ;
• Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA; Philipsburg, PA
  
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 15 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Summer Celebration auction, July 15 (Lyn Knight).
• Trigometric Auction, July 18 (Trigometric).
• The Malmo Collection of Paper Money, July 19 (GreatCollections).
• World Premier Collectors' Choice Auction, July 21 (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 56, July 22 (Crown Currency).
• Archives International Auction 115, July 28 (AIA).
• Heritage Summer Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, August 9 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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

• Spectra Systems gains another banknote authentication sensor order (Globe and Mail).
• Japan Cash Machine Co. acquires banknote recycler (GGR Asia).

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

• A drug dealer's cash blanket (Daily Star).
• Trends in Korean counterfeiting (The Chosun).

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