News & Notes Volume XII, No. 9

August 11, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Trains and Railroad Motifs Relating to Currency & Security Printing

•   Collection Inspiration: Trains (PMG). From 2024.
• The MTA’s Special Armored Money Train that Ran from 1951 to 2006 in NYC (Untapped Cities). From 2023.
• A Ghost Railroad (Paper Money). From 2017. Pdf at link.
• A Collection of Railroad-Themed Etchings by the American Banknote Company (The Harlem Line). From 2012.
• The Red River Basin & Lake Erie Railroad and its "Bank" (Paper Money). From 1988. Pdf at link.
• Indiana's Railroad Money (Paper Money). From 1977. Pdf at link.
• Frontiers Series $10 Note (Bank of Canada Museum).
• Tallahassee Rail Road Company Scrip (Florida Memory).
• Railroad Bonds (Hometown Currency).

Currency Coming and Going

• India's polymer "field trials" (Z News).
• When India's central bank was also Pakistan's (Money Control).
• An Iraqi "digital dinar" (Shafaq News).
• Fiji's demonetization schedule (Fiji Sun).
• Israel targets Hamas financing by retiring old banknotes (The Jerusalem Post).
• Should Thailand retire its 1,000 baht note? (Pattaya Mail).
• What to Do if Rats or Termites Destroy Your Money? (The Daily Star).
• Maria Callas on a European banknote? (Yahoo News).
• The Barbarous Relic's Revenge (Mises Institute).
• A New Fiscal System -- Taxation after Communism (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• The Britannia Collection of Commonwealth and World Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
• An Enola Gay short snorter (Numismatic News).
• A Relic of the Golden West (Stack's Bowers).
• The 10 Brunei Dollars Banknote to Honor the Jame’ Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque (Banknote World).
• The 5 Rupees Banknote Dedicated to Sri Lankan King Parakramabahu I (Banknote World).
• Stack's offers 1863 Gold Certificate (PMG).
• The Mozambique Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Straits Settlements Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• A 1 pfennig alms note (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Mounds and Money in Littleton and Moundsville, WV – Part 1 (Numismatic News).

New Banknote Issues

• Launch date for the new Ukrainian 2,000 hryvnia banknote (UA News).
• Russia's new 100 ruble note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Colorado Money Show, Golden CO, August 14-15 (Coinshows-USA)
• Tyler Coin Show, Tyler TX, August 14-15 (Coinzip).
• The Florence Coin Show, Florence OR, August 15-16 (Coinshows-USA).
• Valley Coin Show, Sherman Oaks CA, August 15-16 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 15

• Schaefferstown, PA; Schertz, TX; Keswick, VA
   

   August 16

• Plantation, FL; Marietta, GA; Berwyn, IL; Peotone, IL; North Attleboro, MA; Madison Heights, MI
  New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Old Bridge, NJ; Hilliard, OH; Johnstown, PA
  Langhorne, PA
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• World Collectors Choice Auction, August 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• World Premier Collectors Choice Auction, the Britannia Collection, August 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB banknote auction, August 11 (CGB Numismatique).
• The Hot Springs Collection of Fractional Currency, August 16 (GreatCollections).
• Monetarium Auction 41, August 17 (Monetarium).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, August 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Hot Springs Collection of Fractional Currency, August 23 (GreatCollections).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, August 23 (GreatCollections).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, August 30 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 3, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 4, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 7, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 8, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session D, September 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session E, Golden Falcon Collection, September 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, September 6 (HA).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 8 (Stack's Bowers).

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

• Who produces Nigerian banknotes? (Nigerian Tribune).
• Spectra Systems licenses Oberthur's banknote security feature (TipRanks).

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

• AI generated fakes in Cambodia (Numismatic News).
• I Was Sprayed Fake Dollars at My Wedding (Nigerian News Direct).

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