News & Notes Volume XI, No. 11
August 26, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
A Visit to the Library of Congress
(Selections from This Month in Business History)
- 1933 Bank Holiday (March)
- Banker J. P. Morgan Born (April)
- Founding of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (June).
- Bretton Woods Conference & the Birth of the IMF and the World Bank (July).
- The Whiskey Rebellion (August).
- The Gilded Age's Gold Crisis: September 1869's Black Friday (September).
- The Panic of 1873 (September).
- Federal Reserve Act Signed (December).
Currency Coming and Going
- Australia's 1850s Gold Rush (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Whatever Happened to the [Canadian] Penny? (Bank of Canada Museum).
- Good as Gold? (Bank of Canada Museum).
- Guinea has a banknote crunch (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Syria may redenominate its currency (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Ahram Online).
- Vietnamese Currency Through Historical Periods (Vietnam Plus).
- RBI Monetary Museum (Printweek India).
- Reuben Eaton Fenton, The Soldier's Friend (SPMC).
- The International Monetary System and the Canary in the Goldmine (World Gold Council)
The Business of Collecting
- Estonia commemorates folklorist Jakob Hurt (Banknote World).
- Collection Inspiration: Owls (PMG).
- Rare Syrian note offered by Noonans (PMG).
- Mozambican currency featuring Eduardo Mondlane (Banknote World).
- Australian Coin and Banknote Values, 33rd ed. (Get the Word Out).
- Notes for sale from the Yokohama Specie Bank (Stack's Bowers).
- A $20 Demand Note offered at Stack's Bowers auction (Stack's Bowers).
- Gold certificates offered at Stack's auction (PMG).
- 2-cent Notes and Scrip (Numismatic News).
- Stack's U.S. Paper Money Rarities Night (Numismatic News).
- Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana on a 500 franc banknote (Banknote World).
- Peruvian 100 intis note honoring President Ramón Castilla (Banknote World).
New Banknote Issues
- Ukraine's 20 hryven "glory" note is in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Banco de Mexico's centennial commemoratives (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Mauritius 200 rupee polymer note (Banknote News).
- Zimbabwe redesigns its ZiG banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Switzerland's new banknote initiative (Geldscheine-online, in German). Numerous concept images.
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- Mountain Home Show, Mountain Hope, AR, Aug 29-30 (Coinshows-USA).
- Ohio State Coin Show, Dublin, OH, Aug 29-30 (CONA).
- Arcadia Coin Show, Arcadia, CA, Aug 30-31 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
August 30
August 31
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, August 26 (HA).
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, August 26 (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).
- Lyn Knight Auction, August 27 (Lyn Knight).
- Noonans Mayfair World Banknote Auction, August 27-28 (Noonans Mayfair).
- 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).
- Stack's Around the Globe Auction, September 9 (Stack's Bowers).
- CGB Paper Money Auction, September 9 (CGB Numismatique).
- Stack's Around the Globe Auction, September 10 (Stack's Bowers).
- Teutoburger Auction, 169, Part III, September 13 (Teutoburger Muenzauktion).
- Heritage U.S. Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, September 14 (HA).
- Stack's Obsolete Currency Auction, September 18 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Alabama Obsolete Notes Auction, September 21 (HA).
- Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- 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).
- Whitman Winter Expo, Baltimore, MD, November 6-8 (Whitman Expos).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Goznak to print new Syrian banknotes (Big News Network).
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
- Counterfeit German credit certificates (Geldscheine-online, in German).
- Monroe's Early Link to Chicago Mob (The Monroe Times).
- Europol counterfeiting haul (Europol).
- Counterfeit Detection:1869 $50 Legal Tender (PMG).
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
