News & Notes Volume XI, No. 22

November 11, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Various Military-Themed Writings for Veterans' Day

•  Allied-Printed Military Money Caused a Black Market Frenzy in Postwar Berlin (HistoryNet). From 2022.
• Intaglio Prints Commemorate Five Branches of U.S. Armed Forces (Coin Net). From 2016.
• General George S. Thomas on $5 Treasury Notes of 1890-1891 (Stack's Bowers). From 2016.
• Aim High With Military Payments Certificates (PMG). From 2015.
• General Joseph King Mansfield on $500 Legal Tender Notes (Stack's Bowers). From 2014.
• From Black Market to Barter Mart in Postwar Germany (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2011.
• The Battleship on the Battleship (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 1994.
• Propaganda Notes of the Vietnam War (Psywarrior).
• British Armed Forces Vouchers (National Army Museum).
• POW Scrip (Camp Money). This is the homepage for listings of prisoner of war scrip in multiple countries.

Currency Coming and Going

• Bulgaria gets ready for Euro adoption (Bulgarian News Agency).
• What's the Difference Between Monetized vs. Demonetized Banknotes? (Banknote World).
• Indonesia denies plan to redenominate the Rupiah (ANTARA).
• Iran gives approval to plan to slash four zeros from its currency (Caliber).
• The inflationary potential for Sudan's banknote issues (All Africa).
• "The Last Allowance" (Asia Business Daily).
• Ukrainian cash demand surges in face of Russian grid attacks (Euromaidan).
• How Isaac Newton Created the Gold Standard by Accident (MoneyWeek).
• A look back at India's demonetization (Counterview).

The Business of Collecting

• Bavaria Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Mário de Andrade on Brazil's currency (Banknote World).
• A 1934 $5000 note offered by GreatCollections (Coinweek).
• Sutler scrip from the Indian Territory (Stack's Bowers).
• World paper money offerings from Stack's upcoming sale (Stack's Bowers).
• U.S. paper rarities offered at Stack's Showcase Auction (Coinweek).
• The Andes Collection of Colombian banknotes (E-Sylum).

New Banknote Issues

• Centennial of the Czech National Bank (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• What's New in Banknotes: November 2025 (Numismatic News).
• Sudan puts new banknotes in circulation (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Fiji's banknote plans (Fijivillage).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Greater Jacksonville Coin Club Show, Jacksonville, FL, Nov 13-15 (Greater Jacksonville Coin Club).
• CoinX St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 13-15 (CoinX).
• Southbay / Sunnyvale Coin Show, Sunnyvale, CA, Nov. 14-15 (Norcal Coin Shows).
• Crescent City Coin Club Show, Kenner, LA, Nov. 14-15 (Coinshows-USA).
• Austin Coin and Currency Show, Austin, TX, Nov. 14-15 (J Fitz Shows).
• Hawaii State Numismatic Association Show, Honolulu, HI, Nov. 14-16 (Coinshows-USA).
• Michigan State Numismatic Society Show, Waterford, MI, Nov. 14-16 (MSNS).
• Portland Coin Show, Portland, OR, Nov. 15-16 (Willamette Coin Club).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      November 15

• Ft. Myers, FL; Plantation, FL; Tampa, FL; Cambridge, MD; Roseville, MN; Big Flats, NY; Schnecksville, PA
  Norfolk, VA

​​      November 16

• Cromwell, CT; Berwyn, IL; North Attleboro, MA; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Hollis, NH; Clifton, NJ
  Old Bridge, NJ; Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Toledo, OH; Langhorne, PA; Pittsburgh, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, November 11 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, November 11 (HA)
• 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

• 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

• China's contract to print Nepalese currency (WION).
• Vietnam's polymer substrate technology looks for worldwide markets (Vietnam News).
• Orell Füssli outlook (Finews).
• More recycled currency products from Korea Minting (The Chosun Daily).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• High metals prices lead to "spike" in numismatic crimes (Coinweek).
• Tonga has a counterfeiting problem (Kaniva Tonga).

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