News & Notes Volume XI, No. 10

August 19, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

A Visit to FRASER

• Uncurrent Events: The Great Inflation. From 2022.
• Uncurrent Events: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation. From 2022.
• Uncurrent Events: Women and American Currency. From 2022.
• Uncurrent Events: The Bank Holiday of 1933. From 2021.
• Staff Picks: Marriner Eccles. From 2021.
• Uncurrent Events: The Pujo Committee. From 2020.
• Dismal Facts: Measuring the Economy before GDP. From 2017.

Currency Coming and Going

• Ozzy Osbourne banknote concept (BBC).
• Swiss National Bank's banknote designs (Market Screener). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Be nice to the Naira (Western Post).
• Sweden's Älvsborg  Ransoms (Tontine Coffee-House).
• What popular songs say about our relationship to money (Coinweek).
• A Brief History of Banknote Destruction (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Ructions in the silver market (Numismatic News).
• The case for Black-owned banks (HBCU Money).

The Business of Collecting

• Small Change, Big Value in fractional currency (Numismatic News).
• A rare 1907 $5 note for sale (Stack's Bowers).
• Bahamian "three signature" notes coming to auction (Stack's Bowers).
• August 2025 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• Rare Red Seals (Numismatic News).
• A gallery of 1-cent notes (Numismatic News).
• Goethe's banknote legacy (Banknote World).
• Commemorating the “The Lion of Lechistan” (Banknote World).
• Mahammad Amin Rasulzade on Azeri money (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• A new variety Mauritanian note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Falkland Islands new banknote launch (Penguin News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Northeast Alabama Coin Show, Gadsden, AL, Aug 22-23 (Coinshows-USA).
• Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Show, Salem, VA, Aug 23-24 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 23

• Phoenix, AZ; Colonial Heights, VA

​​      August 24

• McClellan, CA; San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Topsham, ME; Cockeysville, MD; Madison Heights, MI
  New Baltimore, MI; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Cinti, OH; Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, August 19 (HA).
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, August 19 (HA).
• Archives International Auction 105B, August 26 (AIA).
• 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).
• Lyn Knight Auction August 28 (Lyn Knight).
• Heritage U. S. Error Currency Showcase Auction, August 31 (HA).
• Stack's Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Paper Money Auction, September 9 (CGB Numismatique).​

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

• UAE - South Sudan security printing deal (ZAWYA).
• A call for better security features on Zambian banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).

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

• Claims about Pakistan's ISI (India Tribune).
• "In Prop We Trust" (Universal HUB).
• Silver theft hits Canadian Royal Mint (Canadian Coin News).

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