News & Notes Volume XI, No. 8
August 5, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Selections (mostly) by Miguel Chirinos from the Numismondo Website
- Indian Chiefs on Latin American Notes. Pdf at link.
- Historical Maps on Latin American Paper Money. Pdf at link.
- Don Quixote on Spanish Banknotes. Pdf at link.
- Lighthouses on World Paper Money. Pdf at link.
- Bicentennial of the Amelia Island Affair (1817-2017). Pdf at link.
- Napoleon's Forgery of Russian Assignats, by Dmitry Litvak. Pdf at link.
- Scrip and Tokens of Manuel J. Cobos, by Dale Seppa. Pdf at link.
Currency Coming and Going
- Uganda tries to wean its people off 1,000 shilling banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Central bank digital currencies and national payments systems (LSE Blog).
- Tracking CBDCs Before They Track You (Human Rights Foundation).
- Plans to revive the Somali shilling (Hiiraan)
- Radio Waves and Share Promotion (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Germany's monetary union, thirty-five years on (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Tolkien Society advocates for, well, Tolkien for new British banknotes (Yahoo).
- Japan's 2000 yen note finds favor on Okinawa (Nippon.com).
- The Franco-Polish Curie dispute continues (Euro News).
- Santiago Montoya's monetary artwork (Artlyst).
- India says it has no plans to restrict 500 rupee note use (livemint).
- Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman (Adam Smith Institute).
The Business of Collecting
- A rare national bank note from Hallowell, Maine (Stack's Bowers).
- Highlights of Stack's upcoming Global Showcase Auction (Stack's Bowers).
- The last King of Nepal on banknotes (Banknote World).
- The numismatic legacy of Hungarian revolutionary Gyorgy Dozsa (Banknote World).
- A Bank Check Tour of the University of Illinois (SPMC).
- Advertising notes that look like currency (Numismatic News).
New Banknote Issues
- New Belize banknotes in circulation (Love fm).
- Falklands new notes (MercoPress).
- Poland to commemorate artist Jozef Mehoffer (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Bolivia plans a bicentennial commemorative (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Namibia's new banknote series (Geldscheine-online, in German). Also here (Coin World).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Fresno Coin Show, Fresno, CA, Aug 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).
- Comanche County Coin Show, Lawton, OK, Aug 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).
- Muskogee Coin Show, Muskogee, OK, Aug 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).
- Houston Summer Coin Show, Houston, TX, Aug 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).
- Iredell-Statesville Coin Show, Statesville, NC, Aug 9-10 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
August 9
August 10
- Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT; Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Auburn, MA
Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Paris, ON; Pittsburgh, PA
Telford, PA; Beaver Dam, WI
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, August 5 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, August 5 (HA).
- Heritage Summer Confederate Currency Auction, August 10 (HA).
- Spink World Banknote Auction, August 12 (Spink).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, August 14 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 2, August 26 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 3, August 26 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 6, August 28 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session 7, August 28 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session D, August 29 (Stack's Bowers).
- Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
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
- Nigeria Discouraging Yahoo Boys (Numismatic News).
- The fake N 1,000 note problem in Nigeria (Sahara Reporters).
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
