News & Notes Volume XI, No. 4

July 8, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Blue Strips and Benjamins: The Slang of Money, Past and Present

• Stacks on Stacks: Slang Terms for Money (Greenlight).
• Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Moneywise).
• 42 Spanish Slang Words for Money from Around the World (FluentU).
• 10 German Slang Words for Money (Deutsche Welle).
• Money's Metaphors (Bank of Canada Museum).
• Hotten's Numismatic Slang (American Numismatic Society).
• Money Slang in the 1850s (Windows Into History).
• 18th Century Thieves Cant (The Website of Pascal Bonenfant).
• 20 Fun and Fabulous Australian Slang Terms for Cash (Mel A. Rowe),
• Slang Terms for Money (JSTOR / Journal of American Folklore). From 1905.

Currency Coming and Going

• Bank of England solicits input on new banknote designs (Artdependence).
• Some new ideas for British banknote imagery (The Guardian). More ideas here (BBC).
• Spain warns prospective British tourists to avoid using certain euro notes (National World).
• Declining Scottish banknote circulation (The Times).
• Italian Bankers in Late Medieval England (The Tontine Coffee House).
• The Other American Revolution: Fiat Currency (Blockworks).
• Privacy and Fungibility: The Forgotten Virtues of Sound Money (Mises Institute).
• Money, Narrative, and Economic History (The Bloggers Karamazov).
• De-dollarization: Is the U.S. Dollar Losing its Dominance? (JP Morgan).

The Business of Collecting

• Greek Statesman Ioannis Kapodistrias on its currency (Banknote World).
• Armenian priest & musicologist Komitas on the 10,000 dram note (Banknote World).
• Celebrating Georgia's Kakutsa Cholokashvili (Banknote World).
• An Arizona Territory note from the Prescott National Bank (Stack's Bowers).
• A Look at the East Caribbean States and Their Currency (Stack's Bowers).
• Independence Day-Themed Banknotes (Numismatic News)

New Banknote Issues

• Modifications to Qatar's Fifth Series banknote designs (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Tajikistan's new banknote issues (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Amarillo Coin Show, Amarillo, TX, July 11-13 (J Fitz Shows).
• Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, July 11-13 (Coinshows-USA).
• 68th Annual Coinarama San Diego, San Diego, CA, July 12-13 (Coinarama).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      July 12

• Evans, CO; Largo, FL; Sulphur, LA; Grand Rapids, MI; Colts Neck, NJ; Big Flats, NY
  Broadview Heights, OH

​​      July 13

• Phoenix, AZ; Vacaville, CA; Orange, CT; Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL
  Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Salem, OR; Philipsburg, PA
  Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, July 8 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, July 8 (HA).
• CGB Live Auction, July 8 (CGB Numismatique).
• Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 8 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 9 (Stack's Bowers)
• Crown Currency Live Auction 41, July 9 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Mid-Year Paper Money Auction, July 10 (Stack's Bowers).
• Spink's World, British, and Irish Banknotes Auction, July 10 (Spink).
• Jeffrey Wong Collection of World Banknotes Auction, July 16 (Spink).
• The Victoria Falls Collection Auction July 16 (Spink).
• Stack's July 2025 Confederate Currency Auction, July 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• China, Hong Kong, and World Banknotes  Summer Auction, July 18 (Spink).
• Heritage Summer Fractional Currency Auction, July 20 (HA).
• Archives International Auction 104, July 23 (AIA).
• Heritage Summer U.S. Currency Auction, July 27 (HA).

​Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 10-12 (FUN).
• RCNA 2025 Annual Convention, Calgary, AB, July 16-19 (Canadian Coin News).
• ANA World's Fair of Money, Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23 (ANA).
• Nashville Coin and Money Show, Nashville, TN, September 3-6 (IMEX).
• Great American Coin and Collectibles Show, Rosemont, IL, September 23-27 (GACC).
• MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, September 26-28 (MIF).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Bermuda Monetary Authority wins awards for sustainability and design (Bernews).
• Acquisition of De La Rue Completes (Printweek).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Lao central bank warns about counterfeit kip notes (ANN).
• Coin Clipping Rings and Monetary Frauds in the Medieval Era (Brewminate). 

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