News & Notes Volume X, No. 49, May 20, 2025

The Educational Series of Silver Certificates

• Origin and Sudden Demise of Series of 1896 Educational Certificates (Paper Money). From 2025. Pdf at link.
• A Closer Look: Series of 1896 $2 Silver Certificate (PCGS). From 2020.
• The Making of History: The Educational Series, Part One  (PMG). From 2015.
• The Making of History: The Educational Series, Part Two (PMG). From 2015.
• The $2 Educational Note Essay--The Original Sketch (Paper Money). From 1979. Pdf at link.
• The $2 Educational Note (Paper Money). From 1975. Pdf at link.
• An Intimate Account of the Design, Engraving and Production of the U.S. Silver Certificates of 1896 (Essay-Proof Journal). From 1968. Pdf at link.

    Currency Coming and Going

• How a Dubai banknote has changed over time (Time Out Dubai).
• When the UAE once had a 1 Dirham note (Khaleej Times).
• Sweden's Riksbank on the "obligation to accept cash" (Sveriges Riksbank).
• Syria's Russian relationship (SANA).
• Banknotes Without Assad (Kurdistan24).
• Tea and Credit in 1770s Canton (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Italy's "Let's Design a Banknote" competitions (Banca d'Italia).
• Iran's currency drops four zeros (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Russia runs short of up-to-date Benjamins (MSN).
• Cash rules in Spain (Euroweekly News).
• Scrip currency for Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany (Geldscheine-online, in German).

    The Business of Collecting

• PCGS grades Guinness World Record banknote (Coinweek).
• From the upcoming Archives International auction (Numismatic News).
• Collection Inspiration: Drums (PMG).
• Super Serial Numbers (PMG).
• Celebrating the Spanish Neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Banknote World).
• Mexico's 50 peso banknote featuring Ignacio Allende (Banknote World).
• German Naturalist & Artist Maria Sibylla Merian featured on a German 500 mark note (Banknote World).
• Stack's offers rare Canadian notes (PMG).
• Heritage offers Netherlands notes (PMG).
• GreatCollections's Colorado national bank notes (PMG).
• Stack's featuring British Guiana notes in summer auction (Stack's Bowers).
• New Confederate T-8 $50 Variety (Stack's Bowers).
• Advertising notes of the Germania Notgeld Collector's Club (Geldscheine-online, in German).

     New Banknote Issues

• The Belarus 80 ruble commemorative (Banknote News).
• Thailand's 1,000 baht commemorative (Banknote News).
• The Kazakh 1,000 tenge commemorative (Banknote News).
• Abkhazia's new 50 aspar note (Banknote News).

​​   Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Michigan's Premier Show, Westland, MI, May 23-24 (Michigan Coin Shows).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 24

• Phoenix, AZ; El Cajon, CA; Santee, CA; Hudson, FL; Schertz, TX

​​      May 25

• Greenacres, FL; North Attleboro, MA; Livonia, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH
• Albany, OR; Trevose, PA
   

     Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 20 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, May 20 (HA).
• CGB Internet Auction, May 20 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, May 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Wong Collection Auction, May 28 (Lyn Knight).
• Noonans World Banknote Auction, May 28 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Stack's Colonial Currency Auction, May 29 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Canadian Currency Auction, May 30 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Spring U.S. Colonial Showcase Auction, June 1 (HA).
• Teutoburger Muenzauktion 168, June 6 (Teutoburger).
• Archives International Auction 103, Part 3, June 11 (AIA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice California National Bank Notes, June 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 17 (HA).

​     Major Coin and Currency Shows

• PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 29-31 (PAN).
• 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

• Giesecke + Devrient: "Cash Will Not Disappear" (Boersen-Zeitung).
• De La Rue deal is off (Reuters).
• Hopes to reintroduce abaca into Philippines' banknote production (Business Mirror).
• Synthetic Identities, Real Problems (CDO Trends).
• Eco-friendly holograms (Labels and Labeling).
• That Luminomagnetic Afterglow (ACS Publications).

    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

•  This Malaysian cashier wasn't fooled (The Sun).
• "Massive" robbery of Guinea's new banknotes  (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Chinese-sourced fake chips at Korean casino (GGR Asia).

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