News & Notes Volume XI, No. 19

October 21, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

" Notable/ Noteworthy Notes" Columns from PCGS Banknote

• Notable Notes: Papal Paper Money. From 2025.
• Notable Notes: Series 1928 Changeover Pair & Historic 1776 Colonial Note. From 2025.
• Noteworthy Notes: Series 1918 $500 Chicago Federal Reserve Note. From 2024.
• Noteworthy Notes: Series 1928-A $10/$5 Richmond Federal Reserve Note Double-Denomination Error. From 2024.
• Noteworthy Notes: Zimbabwe $100 Trillion Hyperinflation Note. From 2024.
• Noteworthy Notes: Series 1880 $1,000 Legal Tender. From 2023.
• Noteworthy Notes: 19th-Century Hawaiian Seminary Scrip. From 2022.

Currency Coming and Going

• What Money Will Become: Seven Key Questions (CEPR).
• Stablecoin Week: 6 Insights Shaping the Future of Money (Visual Capitalist).
• 'Gwanbon' concerns in South Korea (The Chosun).
• Deleting zeros: Will Syria’s new currency lighten the load, or add confusion? (Syria Direct).
• Nepali dating system to appear on banknotes (The Himalayan).
• Continued fallout from pub chain's refusal to accept Scottish banknotes (StokeonTrent).
• The Virginia Company and its Various Motives (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Libya's banknote splurge (Finance in Africa).
• A gold-baked currency for Ohioans (Cleveland.com).
• The CFA franc will go digital (Coin Tribune).
• Nigeria's e-Naira website goes online (PYMNTS).
• Mexico will retire its 20 peso bill (Mexico News Daily).
• Syrian banknotes will feature Braille (Enab Baladi).
• First Bank of Tigard (Tigard Life).
• Philippines looks at retiring large denomination banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).

The Business of Collecting

• The liquidity crisis in junk silver (Coinweek).
• A rare Series of 1918 $50 Federal Reserve Note (Stack's Bowers).
• A Costa Rican commemorative for sale (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage GACC auction highlights include rare high denomination Federal Reserve Note (PMG).
• Ukraine commemorates the philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda (Banknote World).
• The Spanish banknote featuring Nobel Prize winner José Echegaray (Banknote World).
• 'Technicolor' gold certificates offered at upcoming Stack's auction (PMG).
• A Visit to the Romanian National Bank Museum in Bucharest (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• A Stack's Bowers treasure hunt (Smithsonian Magazine).
• A look ahead to the Whitman Expo (Greysheet).
• Heritage sells an 1899 Bank of Egypt pound note (ArtDaily).
• A Valparaiso, Indiana national bank note find--from 1987 (Newspapers.com).

New Banknote Issues

• Bolivia has completed releasing its "improved" banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cuba commemorates the nationalization of its banking system (Banknote News).
• Bangladesh new 100 taka note (Banknote News).
• Iran's 5 million rial check (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• South Carolina Numismatic Association Convention, Greenville, SC, Oct 23-25 (SCNA).
• The Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville, TX, Oct 23-25 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Northeast Alabama Coin Show, Gadsden, AL, Oct 24-25 (Coinshows-USA).
• Citrus County Coin Club Show, Crystal River, FL, Oct 24-25 (CCCC).
• Ozarks Coin Club Show, Springfield, MO, Oct 24-25 (Ozarks Coin Club).
• New Hampshire Coin and Currency Expo, Manchester, NH, Oct 24-25 (NH Coin Expo).
• Iowa Numismatic Association Coin Show, Ames, IA, Oct 24-26 (Coinshows-USA).
• Western Slope Coin Show, Grand Junction, CO, Oct 25-26 (Coinshows-USA).
• TOREX, Toronto, ON, Oct 25-26 (Canadian Coin News).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      October 25

• Fountain Hills, AZ; El Cajon, CA; Grand Haven, MI; Brick Township, NJ; New Philadelphia, OH; Watertown, SD
  Port Neches, TX; Hurricane, WV

​​      October 26

• Van Nuys, CA; Greenacres, FL; Elgin, IL; Cockeysville, MD; North Attleboro, MA; West Springfield, MA; Livonia, MI
  Rochester, MN; Hackettstown, NJ; Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Sherburne, NY; Cinti, OH; Westlake, OH
  Philipsburg, PA; Trevose, PA; Green Bay, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, October 21 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, October 21 (HA)
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, October 16 (HA).
• Lyn Knight Auction, October 23 (Lyn Knight).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, October 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• 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).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, October 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Archives International Auction 107, October 29 (AIA).
• Heritage Fall Confederate Currency Showcase Auction, November 2 (HA).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 6, November 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage U.S. Currency Error Showcase Auction, November 16 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Whitman Winter Expo, Baltimore, MD, November 6-8 (Whitman Expos).
• 71st FUN Show, Orlando, FL, January 8-11, 2026 (FUN).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Kenya's sketchy contract with Giesecke + Devrient (Numismatic News).
• Travelex's wholesale banknote operations in Canada (Finextra).
• Turning cotton banknotes into synthetic gas (ScienceDirect)
• Vietnam's polymer ambitions (Vietnamnet).
• China Banknote Printing and Minting to produce Nepali banknotes (Lagani News).
• A new fluorene–vanillin hybrid security ink (European Coatings).

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

• Bangladesh Bank tries to manage public counterfeiting fears (UNB).
• Contemporary counterfeits of the First Roman Republic (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).
• 'Paintings were suddenly seen as money': The reason art heists exploded in the 1970s (BBC). May be gated.

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