News & Notes Volume XI, No. 18

October 14, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

Test Notes

• Printers' Test Notes--A Primer (Currency Den). Pdf at link. From 2015.
• What Makes SPECIMEN Notes so Rare & Desirable? (Banknote World). From 2024.
• Early Polymer Luminus with Color Watermarks from Domtar (Currency Den). Pdf at link. From 2021.
• Russian test banknotes honoring Goznak (Banknote World). From 2024.
• An Alternate Look at the "Giori" Jefferson Test Notes (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2020.
• Test Notes of the China Banknote Printing and Minting Co (Currency Den.) Pdf at link. From 2020.
• Bradbury Wilkinson's Argentinean Rip-Offs (PMG). From 2020.
• A History of Australian Specimen Banknotes (The Right Note). From 2013.

Currency Coming and Going

• Ukraine accused of manipulating Russian currency design poll (OC Media).
• Mount Elbrus versus Grozny- City: Online feud over Russia's banknote design (Meduza).
• Estimate of Russia's banknote production for Libya (Libya Herald).
• Turkish wallets will continue to bulge (Turkiye Today).
• Bangladesh tightens its banknote redemption policy (New Age).
• Dropping zeros from Iran's banknotes won't make a difference (Eurasia Review).
• Finalists chosen in Swiss banknote design competition (Swissinfo).
• The Bank and the Bullionists, Part II (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Some results of Stack's completed Maastricht auction (Greysheet).
• The Coolest Error Notes, Part I (Numismatic News).
• A mismatched serial number (Stack's Bowers).
• Three rarities from Denmark (Stack's Bowers).
• Selections from Stack's completed colonial currency auction (E-Sylum).
• Selections from the upcoming Dean Oakes auction by Lyn Knight (E-Sylum).
• Selections from the upcoming Heritage World Paper Money auction (E-Sylum).
• Jan Oliva's unusual banknote collection (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Commemorating the Peruvian writer Cesar Vallejo (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• Poland will honor its first king (TVP World).
• Syria plans new banknotes (Haberler).
• What's New in Banknotes (Numismatic News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• U.S.-Mexico Numismatic Association Convention, Scottsdale, AZ, Oct 16-18 (USMNA).
• Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville, FL, Oct 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Rome Coin Show, Rome, GA, Oct 17-18 (Coinshows-USA).
• Johnson County Numismatic Society Show, Lenexa, KS, Oct 17-18 (JCNS).
• The Vegas National Show, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 17-19 (CKShows).
• Edmonton Coin Show, Edmonton, AB, Oct 18-19 (Canadian Coin News).
• Inland Empire Coin Show, Coeur d'Alene, ID, Oct 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
• Jacksonville-Camp Lejeune Coin Show, Jacksonville, NC, Oct 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
• Regina Coin Club Fall Show, Regina, SK, Oct 18-19 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      October 18

• Phoenix, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Hudson, FL; Crown Point, IN; Lafayette, IN; Grand Rapids, MI; Highland, MI
  Brandon, MS; Linwood, NJ; Niagara Falls, ON; Trois Rivieres, QC; Lynchburg, VA

​​      October 19

• Tucson, AZ; San Fernando, CA; Vacaville, CA; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Rockford, IL; Dubuque, IA; Orono, ME
  Flint, MI; New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Clifton, NJ; Old Bridge, NJ
  Dartmouth, NS; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Toledo, OH; Oshawa, ON; Stratford, ON
  Langhorne, PA; Woonsocket, RI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, October 14 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, October 14 (HA)
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, October 16 (HA).
• Stack's October 2025 Collectors Choice Auction-Agnew, October 16 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, October 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, October 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Fall U.S. Currency Obsolete Auction, October 19 (HA).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, October 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, October 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's October 2025 World Paper Money Auction, October 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Auction, October 23 (Lyn Knight).
• Lyn Knight Dean Oakes Auction, Parts I - II, October 28-29 (Lyn Knight).
• Stack's L. E. Bruun Collection Auction, October 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Archives International Auction 107, October 29 (AIA).
• Heritage Fall Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, November 2 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• 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

• Vietnam's security printer has expansion plans (Numismatic News).
• KOMSCO is now offering a "money cushion" (Chosen Biz).
• Koenig & Bauer: Varnish as an authentication tool (PrintIndustry).
• Libya's banknote sourcing plans (Trends in Africa).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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 Australia goes cashless, fake currency becomes harder to discern (Byron Coast Times).
• Elon Musk says bitcoin is impossible to counterfeit (PortalCrypto).
• Fake tax collectors in Ghana (Cedi Rates).

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