News & Notes Volume XII, No. 6

July 21, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Five Pieces by Carlson Chambliss, Astronomer and Numismatist

• The Banknotes of Zambia and Malawi. Pdf at link. From 2018.
• Brazil Introduced Radically New Designs for its Notes in 1970. Pdf at link. From 2017.
• The "New Design" Series of Philippines Banknotes (1985-2013). Pdf at link. From 2016.
• The Small-Size American-Printed Notes of the Banco de Mexico, 1936-1978. Pdf at link. From 2015.
• The Fractional Currency of Israel. Pdf at link. From 2015.
• Here is Dr. Chambliss's profile page at the American Numismatic Association.

Currency Coming and Going

• The company that America's currency might keep (The Conversation).
• Filipinos turn away from physical cash (Manila Bulletin).
• Money Talks: Currency and Commerce in Wesleyan’s Unique Collections (Wesleyan University).
• Israeli aircraft drop anti-Hezbollah banknotes in Lebanon (JFEED).
• For the Taliban, worn banknotes are haram (Atlas Press).
• Jersey has no plans to put King Charles on its notes (Jersey Evening Post).
• Who might be featured on future euro banknotes? (Europa Nostra).
• Trump and Brazil's PIX payment system (Paul Krugman).
• In the Israeli-Occupied West Bank, Too Much Cash Is Breaking the Economy (Asharq Al-Awsat).
• BOOK: The Banker Who Made America (E-Sylum).
• MoAF's new Boston home (Traders Magazine).
• Devaluations and the French 'Mint Bills' (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Texas notes from the Jack Copeland Currency Collection (Greysheet).
• The 500 Tolarjev Banknote Remembering Slovenian Architect Jože Plečnik (Banknote World).
• Costa Rica Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• The Red “R” Dollar: How a Failed Wartime Paper Test Created a Collector Classic (Coinweek).
• How to Identify a Repeat Serial Number (Banknote World).
• What is a Star Banknote? (Banknote World).
• What is a Radar Serial Number? (Banknote World).
• Swiss Poet & Writer Gottfried Keller on a 10 franc note (Banknote World).
• 19th Century Apothecaries, Druggists, and Drug Store Currency – Part 2 (Numistmatic News). Here is Part 1.
• A World War I Rarity from Melanesia (Stack's Bowers).
• Hudson's Bay promissory note sells at RCNA auction (Canadian Coin News).
• A rare Santa Claus vinette on offer (Stack's Bowers).
• Collection Inspiration: Signature Moments (PMG).
• A Straits Settlements note offered by Mavin (PMG).
• Archives International Sale 115 Selections (E-Sylum).
• Heritage Auctions: London Lecture and Banknote Preview (E-Sylum).
• The Faces of Large Size National Banknotes (E-Sylum).
• The divergence between gold and silver (Coinweek).

New Banknote Issues

• Ukraine to alter 'Russified' font on new 2,000 hryvnia note (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Lansing Coin Show, Lansing MI, July 23-25 (Coinshows-USA).
• Warner Robins Coin Show, Warner Robins GA, July 24-25 (Coinshows-USA).
• Bay State Coin Show, Marlborough MA, July 24-25 (Bay State Coin Show).
• Ark-La-Tex Coin ahd Stamp Show, Bossier City LA, July 25-26 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      July 25

• Phoenix, AZ; Ludington, MI; Marietta, OH; Midland, TX; Olympia, WA
   

   July 26

• Chino, CA; Greenacres, FL; Livonia, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH
  Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• 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).
• Mavin International Auction 69A, July 31 (Mavin).
• Stack's Collectors Choice U.S. Currency, August 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, August 9 (HA).
• CGB banknote auction, August 11 (CGB Numismatique).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh PA, August 25-29 (ANA).
• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).
• Great American Coin & Collectibles Show, Rosemont IL, September 30-Otober 3 (GACC).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• India begins formal inquiries about polymer currency substrate suppliers (MENA FN). Also here (MI Bankers' Guide).
• De La Rue's former Gateshead printing facility is up for sale (The Northern Echo).

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

• The dye stains gave him away (Nova News).
• Burglar gives his dogs something to chew on (Daily Mail).
• Counterfeit Detection: Confederate 1864 $50 and $100 (PMG).
• Scammers upgrading Cuban peso denominations (Ciber Cuba).
• Cash smuggling in Iraq (The New Region).
• Chasing Counterfeiters in Colombia (E-Sylum).

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