News & Notes Volume XI, No. 6
July 22, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Currency and Banknotes of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
- The Great Zimbabwe (The Banknote Den).
- Banknotes from the Zimbabwe War of Liberation (Banknote World). From 2024.
- Banknote Iconography in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe, 1964-2024 (Wiley Online Library). Pdf at link. From 2024.
- Rhodesia Banknote History (Banknote World). From 2022.
- Unrecognized Countries and their Currency (PMG). Includes Rhodesia. From 2016.
- Zimbabwe's Trillion Dollar Note: From Worthless Paper to Hot Investment (The Guardian). From 2016.
- Zimbabwe's Descent into Monetary Madness (Paper Money). From 2014.
- My Brother Went to Zimbabwe, and All He Got Me Was $100 Trillion Dollars (Medium). From 2013.
- Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas). Pdf at link. Interesting pictures. From 2011.
Currency Coming and Going
- An Iron Bridge for Britain's banknotes? (Shropshire Live).
- Southgate's Link to Banknote Production and Bombay Gin (In Common).
- Some don't like the Houthis' new banknote (New Arab).
- Fantasy BRICs currency notes (EurAsia Daily).
- John Taylor's Forgotten Assault on Hamilton's Economic Scheme (Tenth Amendment Center).
- Sudan's "dire banknote situation" (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Jonathan V. Gould, 32nd U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
- Social Security Administration gives up sending paper checks (USA Today).
- Profile of Sir John Templeton (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Morocco's Story Etched in Banknotes (yabiladi).
- Beauty, Power, Art, and Finance (Yale Insights).
- A look at US cryptocurrency legislation (Atlantic Council).
The Business of Collecting
- The Kuna Lives on (Numismatic News).
- Results from Stack's midyear world paper money auction (Numismatic News).
- Heritage offers rare red seal serial number 1 notes (PMG).
- Netherlands proof notes offered in upcoming Crown Currency sale (PMG).
- Straits Settlements banknotes offered in upcoming Monetarium auction (PMG).
- Collector Rezwan Razack is honored (Deccan Chronicle).
- Shares in the first banknote NFT are sold out (Numismatic News).
- Rare wildlife on Ecuadorean prototype notes (Stack's Bowers).
- Inverted star error notes (Stack's Bowers).
- The Armenian note featuring Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Banknote World).
- Radio giant Marconi on Italian currency (Banknote World).
- Finland's unissued 5,000 markka banknote (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Ichiyō Higuchi on Japan's 50,000 yen note (Banknote World).
- Note of the Month: Bahamas 3 Dollars (PMG).
New Banknote Issues
- King Charles will appear on Canadian currency starting in 2027 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Yemen's new 200 rial note (Banknote News).
- Mauritius new 200 rupee banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Guatemala's "new improved" 100 quetzales note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Bay State Coin Show, Marlborough, MA, July 25-26 (Bay State Coin Shows).
- Greater Cincinnati Coin Show, Cinti, OH, July 25-26 (Coinshows-USA).
- Vegas National Coin Show, Las Vegas, NV, July 25-27 (CK Shows).
- Low Country Summer Coin Show, Ladson, SC, July 25-27 (Low Country Coin Club).
- Fremont Coin Show, Fremont, CA, July 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).
- Tallahassee Numismatic Club Show, Tallahassee, FL, July 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).
- Annandale Coin Show, Annandale, VA, July 26-27 (Annandale Coin Show).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
July 26
July 27
- San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Peotone, IL; Livonia, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY
CInti, OH; Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, July 22 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, July 22 (HA).
- Archives International Auction 104, July 23 (AIA).
- Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Auction, July 24 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Summer U.S. Currency Auction, July 27 (HA).
- Heritage Summer Confederate Currency Auction, August 10 (HA).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- 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).
- PAN Show, Monroeville, PA, October 16-18 (PAN).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
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
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
