News & Notes Volume X, No. 47

                                    May 6, 2025

   From the Internet Bookshelf 

          --Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--           

                       Money and Currency of the Ottoman Empire

• The Ottoman Monetary System and Frontier Territories in Europe, 1500-1700 (The Ataturk Institute). Pdf at link.
• Ottoman Coins and Currency at the End of Empire (Coinweek). From 2023.
• In Debt: How the Ottoman Empire Became Beholden to European Capital (The Collector). From 2023.
• A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Academia.edu / Journal of the American Oriental Society). From 2002. Pdf at link.
• An Ottoman-Turkish High Value Transfer Note (Paper Money). From 1996. Pdf at link.
• The First Ottoman Bank Notes (IBNS). From 1990. Pdf at link.
• Ottoman Bank Museum--The Founding Years and Difficult Times (Google Arts & Culture).

    Currency Coming and Going

• Fake banknotes make a point in Spanish soccer match protest (telegrafi).
• Why the Swiss still like their cash (SWI).
• Bangladesh's politically-motivated banknote scarcity (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Tanzania bans foreign currency use (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• On the Origins of Money and the Monetary Chasm (Bitcoin and Markets).
• Nigeria's POS currency operators are alive and well (IEEE Spectrum).
• Afghanistan incinerates old banknotes (Pajhwok Afghan News).
• Early Chicago's Real Estate Bubble (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Avoiding Kindleberger's Trap (CEPR).
• Why the United States Has a Decentralized Central Bank (FRB Kansas City).
• Satisfying Argentina's "dollar thirst" (Buenos Aires Times).
• Dark secrets of Pakistani "money throwing" (Minute Mirror).
• Lithuania to get rid of one- and two-cent coins (Coinsweekly).
• What People Used to Pay With in South Africa (Coinsweekly).
• Germany makes space for digital payments (Coinsweekly).
• Unwanted chopmarked bills (E-Sylum).
• Euro notes being culled from circulation (E-Sylum).
• The beer pennies of Passau, 1946-48 (Geldscheine-online, in German).

    The Business of Collecting

• Pedro Calderón de la Barca on Spain's 25 peseta note (Banknote World).
• Ghana celebrates composer Ephraim Amu (Banknote World).
• Collecting Banknote Errors (Numismatic News).
• A $5 note from the First National Bank of Greeley, CO (Stack's Bowers).
• Some results from Stack's April 2025 Hong Kong auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Trophy Notes Hold Their Own (Greysheet).
• Offerings at Stack's upcoming May 2025 Showcase auction (E-Sylum).

     New Banknote Issues

• Bangladesh to release new banknotes (Daily Observer).
• Kazakhstan's new 2,000 tenge notes got loose (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Thailand's 100 baht commemorative (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cape Verde's new 1,000 escudo and 2,000 escudo notes (Banknote News).

​​   Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Michigan State Numismatic Society Convention, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-10 (MSNA).
• Visalia Coin Show, Visalia, CA, May 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).
• Norman-Goldsby Coin Show, Goldsby, OK, May 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).
• 69th Annual ONA Convention, Stratford, ON, May 9-10 (Canadian Coin News).
• Philly Coin Expo, Oaks, PA, May 9-10 (Philly Coin Expo).
• Gallatin Coin Show, Gallatin, TN, May 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 10

• Burnaby, BC; Santa Maria, CA; Santee, CA; South San Francisco, CA; Orange, CT; Largo, FL; Jasper, IN
• Roseville, MN; Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH; Toronto, ON; Chambersburg, PA; Hochelaga, QC

​​      May 11

• Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Royal Oak, MI; Melville, NY; Telford, PA

     Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 6 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, May 6 (HA).
• Spink World Banknotes Auction, May 7 (Spink).
• Lockdales Auction 292 PMG Graded Notes, May 8 (Lockdales Auctioneers).
• Stack's Bowers Maastricht Auction, May 8 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Bowers Maastricht Auction, the Windsor Collection, May 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fractional Currency Showcase Auction, May 11 (HA).
• Stack's Bowers World Collector's Choice Auction,  Part I, May 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Bowers World Collector's Choice Auction, Part II, May 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• Archives International Auction 102, May 13 (AIA).
• Heritage Confederate Currency Auction, May 18 (HA).
• CGB Internet Auction, May 20 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Bowers Colonial Currency Auction, May 29 (Stack's Bowers).

​     Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
• ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).

​    Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Nigeria's banknote printing and distribution costs for 2024 (Legit).
• Cartor Security Printers gets Swiss Post contract (Parcel and Postal Technology).
• Crane NXT completes takeover of De La Rue Authentication business (Printweek).

    Upcoming Industry Conferences

• The Currency Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, May 26-29 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing - Latin America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-11 (Reconnaissance).
• Identity Week Europe, Amsterdam, June 17-18 (Identity Week).
• Identity Week America, Washington, D.C., September 10-11 (Identity Week).
• Optical and Digital Document Security, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2 (Reconnaissance).

      From the Annals of Crime

•  Canada's fake note problem (Inside Halton).
• Kosovar postal employees arrested for dispensing counterfeit money to patrons (Kosova Press).
• Housekeeper's coin heist (Numismatic News).

                                             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