News & Notes Volume X, No. 50
May 27, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Military Payments Certificates
- Collecting U.S. Military Payment Certificates (SPMC).
- The United States Military Payment Certificate Story (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1969.
- Money of Necessity: U.S. Military Payments Certificates (Coinweek). From 2022.
- Fractional MPC (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2016.
- An Investigation of the Population of MPCs Known in Collectors' Hands (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2016.
- Review of Military Payment Certificates, 5th ed (E-Sylum). From 2023.
- Counterfeit Detection: Altered Military Payment Certificate (PMG). From 2021.
- Project Turnkey (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1977.
- U.S. Military Payment Certificates, Vietnam 1964-1973 (Midlands Coin Club) Power Point presentation, 20 slides, in pdf file.
- Base Money: U.S. Military Payment Certificates and the Transpacific Sexual Economies of the Korean War, 1950-1953 (OUP / American Historical Review). Pfd at link. From 2022.
- Vietnam-Era 1969 Military Payment Certificate Series 681 (PCGS). From 2022.
- Allied-Printed Military Currency Caused a Black-Market Frenzy in Postwar Berlin (HistoryNet).
News & Notes last looked at this topic in October 2020. All links above are different.
Currency Coming and Going
- The Royal Family's Money (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Denmark retires older banknotes (Yacht).
- Jamaica may extend banknote exchange deadline (Jamaica Observer).
- Argentina's "mattress dollars" (Taipei Times).
- The Story of Money in Five Artworks (Art Institute of Chicago, via E-Sylum).
- Earning Influence: Lessons from the History of International Currencies (European Central Bank).
- MMT and U.S. History: Redefining Chartalism (Mises Institute).
- Back to cash in Sweden (The Guardian). Also here (Reuters).
The Business of Collecting
- Heritage Auction's Currency News, May 23, 2025 (HA).
- A Rarity Among Gold Certificates (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's offers Canadian banknotes at its May CCO auction (Stack's Bowers).
- A $5 note on the Union Bank of Halifax for sale (Canadian Coin News).
- Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, OH (Numismatic News).
- The Baden Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
- Kazakhstan honors the Islamic Philosopher al-Farabi Alpharabius (Banknote World).
- Marking the 100th anniversary of the Bank of China (Banknote World).
- Chiang Kai-Shek's disputed legacy (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- BOOK: Catalog of Polish Banknotes, 19th ed. (Geldscheine-online, in German). Book in Polish. If link is not correct, browse website.
- The "Prince of Bankrupts" (Coinsweekly).
New Banknote Issues
- Bangladesh to issue new notes in early June (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Transnistria's "modified" banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Kazakhstan commemorates the 80th anniversary of Victory Day (Banknote World).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Greater Jacksonville Coin Club Show, Jacksonville, FL, May 29-31 (GJCC).
- 2nd Annual West Georgia Coin Show, Carrolton, GA, May 30-31 (Coinzip).
- Southern Idaho Coin Club Show, Garden City, ID, May 30-31 (SICC).
- Whidbey Island Coin Show, Coupeville, WA, May 30-31 (Coinzip).
- TNA Coin Show, Conroe, TX, May 30-31 (Coinshows-USA).
- HUNTSPEX Coin and Stamp Show, Huntsville, AL, May 31-June 1 (Coinzip).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
May 31
June 1
- Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA; Monroe, MI
- Wyandotte, MI; Independence, MO; St. John, NB; Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH
- London, ON
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, May 27 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, May 27 (HA).
- 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
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
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
