News & Notes Volume X, No. 52

June 10, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Lighthouses as a Currency Motif

• Lighthouse Banknote, Netherlands (De Nederlandsche Bank).
• Ten Caribbean Guilder (CBSA). From 2025.
• The Little-Known Story of Jersey's Banknotes, holographic detail (The Bailiwick Express). From 2022.
• Northern Mole Lighthouse, Lithuania (The Banknote Den).
• Elbow Reef Lighthouse, Bahamas (The Banknote Den).
• Guia Lighthouse, Macau (The Banknote Den).
• 50 Pesos-Pembroke Lighthouse, Falklands/Malvinas (The Banknote Den).

News & Notes last looked at this theme in September 2021. All new links above.

Currency Coming and Going

• Severe cash shortages in Houthi-controlled Yemen (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bulgaria on track to join the Eurozone (Coinsweekly).
• Octroi, France's Internal Tariff (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• A "minerals-backed" currency for Africa? (Mining Technology).
• Jersey undecided about adding King Charles to its banknotes (BBC).
• Jamaica plans to retire non-polymer notes by July (Jamaica Gleaner).
• Costa Rica recalls old banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide).

The Business of Collecting

• BOOK: History of Hundis Used in India (E-Sylum).
• A "spread eagle $100 legal tender note for sale (Stack's Bowers).
• A Rarity from the Turks and Caicos (Stack's Bowers)
• Preview of Archives International Auction 103 (Greysheet).
• Heritage Auctions Currency News, June 4, 2025 (HA).
• Oldenburg chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Croatian poet Ivan Gundulić on a 50 kuna banknote (Banknote World).
• Commemorating Peru's President Nicolás de Piérola (Banknote World).
• General Francis E. Spinner and Fractional Currency (Numismatic News).
• Composer Eduardo Fabini on Uruguay's money (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• What's New in Banknotes - June 2025 (Numismatic News).
• Vietnam plans 100,000 dong banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bangladesh's new 2 taka, 5 taka, and 10 taka notes (Banknote News)
• Bangladesh's new 20 taka, 50 taka, and 100 taka notes (Banknote News)
• Bangladesh's new 200 taka, 500 taka, and 1000 taka notes (Banknote News).
• New security features on Bolivia's 100 boliviano note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Tulsa Coin Show, Tulsa, OK, June 12-14 (Tulsa Coin Show).
• Salt Lake Coin Show, Sandy, UT, June 13-14 (Coinshows-USA).
• Buena Park Coin Show, Buena Park, CA, June 14-15 (Pacific Expos).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      June 14

• Largo, FL; Springhill, FL; Timonium, MD; Roseville, MN; Colts Neck, NJ; Tarrytown, NY
• Broadview Heights, OH; Beaverton, ON; Kent, WA; Rice Lake, WI

​​      June 15

• Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; North Attleboro, MA; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Clifton, NJ; Old Bridge, NJ
• Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Toledo, OH; Langhorne, PA; North Huntingdon, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, June 10 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, June 10 (HA).
• Archives International Auction 103-103A, June 11-12 (AIA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice California National Bank Notes, June 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16- 17 (HA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, June 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Live Auction, July 8 (CGB Numismatique).

​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).
• Nashville Coin and Money Show, Nashville, TN, September 3-6 (IMEX).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

•  Cryptocurrency ATM scams (4WWL)

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