News & Notes, Volume I, No. 13 | SPMC

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

A report and update on the proposed cultural protection law, from Ursula Kampmann (CoinsWeekly).
Who would the U.S. Republican candidates want on the ten-dollar bill? (video, CNN via Slate). Among others, the Irish don't like Jeb Bush's choice (IrishCentral.com)
A rare Pakistani banknote for sale (CoinWeek).
It may be about time for Ethiopia to have higher denomination notes (allafrica.com)
Petition for a (Canadian) woman to appear on Canadian currency (Yahoo).
Confederate currency album (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
More coins and paper money named after people (E-sylum). If people's body parts count, I would add Congo's "prostrates", nicknamed after Mobutu Sese Seko's.
Upcoming paper money auctions (Coin World).
Wendell Wolka's remarks about guides to paper money collecting (Coin World).
Treasury notes during the War of 1812 (Coin World).
Peace symbols on new Iranian currency (Die Welt, in German). At the same time (and in a good move). Iran is retiring its 50,000 note with an atomic symbol.
Half of Britain's cash is in the black market or stashed overseas (BBC). Cash won't disappear anytime soon (The Telegraph). This suits De La Rue just fine (Print Week).
The vanity of a Scots printer (Daily Record).
Maldives' new currency (haveeruonline.com)

This goes against the 14th Amendment, somehow.

Pollard Banknote Company, which never printed banknotes, has a new printing press (Detroit Free Press).

Fear of counterfeiting keeps India from issuing higher-denomination notes (The Economic Times).
"I don't know how they make them, but they look real" (Upstate SC News).
Counterfeit polymer currency in Regina, Canada (620ckrm.com). "The counterfeit window has tape on the transparency, which becomes apparent just by feeling the bill."
He tried to pass off Florints as Lei (wochenblatt.de, in German).

Cash usage in the UK (Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, pdf).

Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
"Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
The Sixth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Security Printing Watermark Conference-2015, Sochi, Russia September 22-24, 2015.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes)
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
MRI Bankers' Guide
Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Fantasy Banknotes (I honestly do not know what to make of this).

Read More SPMC Blogs...

News & Notes | All Other Blogs

Advertisement

Donation

Shopping Cart

Shopping cart

Thank You!

...thanks you for your support!

S P M C

Privacy Policy | Terms of Service © 2025 SPMC Inc. All Rights Reserved.