News & Notes Volume XI, No. 14

September 16, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Currencies of the Gulf States

• The Banknotes Dedicated to Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (Banknote World). From 2024.
• The Fascinating History of Omani Currency (Oman Daily Observer). From 2024.
• Mapping the Group of Twenty (SPMC). From 2023.
• The History of Qatar Banknotes (Banknote World). From 2021.
• The Stolen Dinars of Kuwait (PMG). From 2017.
• The Banknotes of Saudi Arabia (PJSymes). From 1993.
• The Currencies of Kuwait (IBNS). From 1989. Pdf at link.

Currency Coming and Going

• The Financial Panic that Led to the Start of the Federal Reserve (History.com).
• Colombian Peso Bills and their Meaning (Colombia One).
• Father Bonazetti: Banknote Repairer (Agenzia FIdes).
• Somalia seeks outside assistance to rejuvenate its currency (Hiiraan Online).
• Stablecoins for Remittances? (The Interpreter).
• The Gold Clause Cases (One First).
• The Wall Street bombing of 1920 (Coinweek).
• The end of the Lewes Pound (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Forgeries of Allied Military Currency in Italy (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Chile’s Caja de Crédito Hipotecario, Part I and Part II (Tontine Coffee House).

The Business of Collecting

• Archives International's upcoming sale (Coin World).
• National bank notes from Easthampton, MA (Numismatic News).
• The Graham Collection (Canadian Coin News).
• A rare national bank note on the FNB of Marshall, Indiana (Stack's Bowers).
• The L. E. Bruun Paper Money Collection (Stack's Bowers).
• Poland's King Władysław II Jagiełło (Banknote World).
• Slovenia's banknote honoring scientist Jurij Vega (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• A Lebanese 5 million livres note is on the way (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• South Sudan is printing new notes (The Tanzania Times).
• A Bolivian commemorative banknote with no denomination (Coin World).
• Botswana honors Olympic champion (Vanguard).
• Madagascar issues "improved" banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Papua New Guinea's 50 kina commemorative (Banknote News). Also here (Coin World).
• Celebrating 50 years of the Bank of Botswana (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Iran Check for 5 million rials (Banknote News).
• Another Iran Check, this one for 500,000 rials (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The new Falklands polymer notes (Banknote World).
• Thailand's new polymer notes (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Virginia Numismatic Association Convention, Fredericksburg, VA, Sep 18-20 (VNA)
• Calgary Numismatic Society Fall Money Fair, Calgary, AB, Sep 19-20 (Canadian Coin News).
• St. Pete-Clearwater Show, Dunedin, FL, Sep 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).
• Harrisburg Coin Show, Harrisburg, PA, Sep 19-20 (Harrisburg Coin Club).
• Camden Coin Club Show, Camden, SC, Sep 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).
• Memphis Coin Club Show, Memphis, TN, Sep 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).
• Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, Sep 19-21 (Coinshows-USA).
• Front Range Coin Club Show, Longmont, CO, Sep 20-21 (FRCC).
• Caveman Coin Show, Grants Pass, OR, Sep 20-21 (Caveman Coin Club).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 20

• Phoenix, AZ; St. Augustine, FL; Crown Point, IN; Marysville, MI; Oneonta, NY; Indiana, PA; Spearfish, SD
  Cookeville, TN

​​      September 21

• Van Nuys, CA; Cromwell, CT; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Pekin, IL; Kokomo, IN; North Attleboro, MA
  New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Clifton, NJ; Old Bridge, NJ
  Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, September 16 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, September 16 (HA)
• Crown Currency Auction 43, September 16 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Obsolete Currency Auction, September 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Alabama Obsolete Notes Auction, September 21 (HA).
• Spink World Banknote Auction, September 23 (Spink).
• Archives International Auction 106, September 24 (AIA).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, September 25 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fractional Currency Auction, September 28 (HA).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Hong Kong World Paper Money Auction, October 4 (HA).
• Stack's Colonial Currency Auction, October 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, October 17 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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

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).
• The Future of Cash Conference, Warsaw, Poland, November 3-5 (Future of Cash).
• High Security Printing - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-3 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing -EMEA, Rabat, Morocco, March 2-4, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 1-3, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Form).

From the Annals of Crime

• As more Chinese visit South Korea, more counterfeit Chinese yuan follows (The Korea Times).
• Fake drink tokens circulated at British Columbia fundraiser (CTV 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