News & Notes Volume XI, No. 12
September 2, 2025
From the Internet Bookshelf
Five by Farley
(Five publications on colonial currency by Farley Grubb)
- Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy. Pdf at link. From 2006.
- The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued? Pdf at link. From 2007.
- The U.S. Continental Dollar and Denominational Structure, 1775-1776. Pdf at link. From 2015.
- Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774. Pdf at link. From 2016.
- Colonial New Jersey Paper Money, 1709-1755. Pdf at link. From 2016.
Currency Coming and Going
- Vietnam banknote map (Vietnam.net).
- The Lewes pound comes to an end (BBC).
- Complaints about taka notes "falling apart" (The Business Standard).
- Victor Borda's museum for the Bolivian people (Latin American Post).
- Zimbabwe's currency plans (All Africa).
- Slowing demand for banknotes in Thailand (The Nation).
- Bank of Japan and the Economic Miracle (The Tontine Coffee House).
- The Swiss and their Vrenelis (SWI).
- Historical parallels in the stablecoin debate (LSE Blog).
- British pub chain says no to Scottish banknotes (The National).
- The Grächendollar, a Swiss tourist money (Geldsheine-online, in German).
The Business of Collecting
- National bank notes do well at Stack's Global Showcase Auction (Stack's Bowers).
- The Meadows Collection of World Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
- Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson on a 500 kronor note (Banknote World).
- A preview of Teutoburger's Auction 169 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
New Banknote Issues
- New Mauritius 100 rupee note (Numismatic News).
- Mauritania's "revised" commemorative note (Banknote News).
- Bank of Mexico's 100th anniversary (Banknote News).
- Ukraine's banknote gets a slogan (Banknote News).
- Papua New Guinea's 100 kina banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Sri Lanka's 2000 rupee commemorative (Newswire). Sri Lanka's banknote for the visually impaired (E-Sylum). And here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Thailand will shift to polymer later this year (Bangkok Post). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- 64th Annual Illinois Numismatic Association Show, Tinley Park, IL, Sept 4-6 (ILNA).
- ONA Greater Tulsa Show, Broken Arrow, OK, Sept 4-6 (Coinshows-USA).
- CoinExpo San Jose, San Jose, CA, Sept 5-6 (Griffin Coins).
- Las Vegas Locals Show, Las Vegas, NV, Sept 5-6 (Coinshows-USA).
- Sumter Coin Club Show, Sumter, SC, Sept 5-6 (Coinshows-USA).
- Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement, TX, Sept 5-6 (J Fitz Shows).
- The Valley Coin Show, Van Nuys, CA, Sept 6-7 (Coinshows-USA).
- Carteret County Coin Show, Morehead City, NC, Sept 6-7 (History Museum of Carteret County).
- National Postage Stamp and Coin Show, MIssissauga, ON, Sept 6-7 (Canadian Coin News).
- West Tennessee Collectors Club Show, Jackson, TN, Sept 6-7 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
September 6
September 7
- Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Marietta, GA; Orland Park, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA; Wyandotte, MI
Lindenwold, NJ; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH; North Huntingdon, PA
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, September 2 (HA)
- Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, September 2 (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
- Should Syria choose Goznak? (The Syrian Observer).
- A tour of Portal's paper mill (Somerset Live).
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
