News & Notes Volume XI, No. 21

November 4, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Five Articles by Steve Whitfield on Kansas Money

  (all published in Paper Money; pdfs at all links)

• The Lawrence Bank of Kansas Territory and State. From 1991.
• Tom Moses and the Cardboard Scrip of Fort Wallace, Kansas. From 1991.
• Kansas Bogus and Questionable Bank Notes. From 1977.
• Kansas Obsolete Merchant Scrip of the Eldridge Brothers. From 1976.
• Kansas Union Military Scrip. From 1976.

Currency Coming and Going

• Taiwan's banknote design "shows freedom" (Taipei Times).
• Tajikistan's National Currency Turns 25 Years Old (Asia Plus).
• Toulouse Mills and Early Shareholding (Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• A Surviving Pierre, South Dakota Territorial (Numismatic News).
• BOOK: Between the Fronts: German Emergency Currency of 1945 (Geldscheine-online). Book notice, and book, in German.
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 257, November 2025 (CGB Numismatique, in French).
• The Reuss-Greiz chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• The Reuss-Gera chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Czech Republic banknotes designed by Oldřich Kulhánek (Numismatic News / Numismaster).
• Francisco Marroquín the First Bishop of Guatemala (Banknote World).
• Kristjan Raud on an Estonian 1 kroon banknote (Banknote World).
• The Waldeck and Pyrmont chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Barclay's Bank DCO Specimens from the Caribbean (Stack's Bowers).
• A note on the First National Bank of Intercourse, PA (Stack's Bowers).
• A closer look at Belize's current banknote series (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• German street car scrip, 1947-48 (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Kyrgyzstan to begin printing 20 and 50 som banknotes (24kg).
• Tajikistan's 25th anniversary commemorative note (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Transnistria issues 200 ruble note with new security thread (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Banknote News).
• Cuba celebrates 65 years of its banking system (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Richmond Coin and Currency Show, Richmond, VA, Nov. 6-8 (Richmond Coin Club).
• Sacramento Coin Show, McClellan, CA, Nov. 7-8 (Sacramento Coin Show).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang, OK, Nov. 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
• Midlands Coin Show, Columbia, SC, Nov. 7-8 (Midlands Coin Club).
• Albuquerque Coin Club Fall Show, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 7-9 (Coinshows-USA).
• TSNS Coin Show, East Ridge, TN, Nov. 7-9 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      November 8

• Largo, FL; Spring Hill, FL; Marion, IN; Cumberland, MD; Howell, MI; Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH
  Trenton, ON; Cross Lanes, WV

​​      November 9

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Springfield, IL; Indianapolis, IN
  Auburn, MA; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Springfield, OH; Windsor, ON
  Telford, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, November 4 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, November 4 (HA)
• The Concordia Collection of Kansas National Bank Notes, November 9 (GreatCollections).
• The Woodside Collection of Cuban Paper Money, November 9 (GreatCollections).
• Spink World Banknote Auction, November 12 (Spink).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 6, November 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 7, November 13 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage U.S. Currency Error Showcase Auction, November 16 (HA).
• Stack's World Collectors Choice Online Auction, November 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's World Collectors Choice Online Auction, November 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage The Andes Collection of Colombian Banknotes Auction, November 23 (HA).
• The Lightning Bolt Collection of U.S. Paper Money (November 23 (Great Collections).

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).
• 54th NYINC, New York City, January 16-18, 2026 (NYINC).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Authentix signs cooperation and licensing agreement with LEONHARD KURZ (Bastille Post).

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

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