News & Notes Volume XI, No. 23

November 18, 2025

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Dams on Banknotes

• The Cerrón Grande Dam: A Feat of Engineering (Banknote World). From 2025.
• Notes of the Leopard of Zaire, the Ingra Dam (Smithwick Numismatics). From 2022.
• Banknote Sceneries Constructed by China and its Partners on Belt & Road (CGTN). From 2019.
• Chinese Renminbi banknote scenery: The Three Gorges on the Yangtze River (CGTN). From 2019.
• Dams on the Banknotes of Yemen (PJ Symes). From 2014.
• World Paper Money Depicting Dams (IBNS). Pdf at link. From 1997.
• What Stories Lie Behind The Images On Vietnam's Dong? (Vietcetera).

Currency Coming and Going

• Ukraine denies new banknote rumors (Mezha).
• Russia alleges Ukrainian drones are dropping "toxic-laced" banknotes (Defense Mirror).
• Higher denomination ZiG notes on the way in Zimbabwe (Harare).
• Israel may outlaw holding cash above a certain balance (Jerusalem Post).
• Koenig & Bauer on the "educational value" of banknotes (IPP).
• Goodbye to the Penny (Coinweek).
• When Indian rupees became invalid over night (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Emergence of the Central Bank (Independent Institute).

The Business of Collecting

• A Snowbird's Retirement (Stack's Bowers).
• Two Rare King George VI Notes from Barbados (Stack's Bowers).
• Hump Day at Feldman International Auctions (Numismatic News).
• Animals of Africa Prevalent at Heritage World Sale (Coin World).
• The Coolest Error Notes, Part II (Numismatic News).
• Know Your Money: Radar Notes (Coin World).
• Commemorating the 500th anniversary of Brazil (Banknote World).
• Slovenian Painter Ivana Kobilca (Banknote World).
• The banknote featuring Uruguay's José Enrique Rodó (Banknote World).
• Paper money of the Tuvan People's Republic, 1921-1944 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Is the National Bank of Poland killing the goose that laid the golden egg? (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The "Patriotic Money" of Venice, 1848 (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).

New Banknote Issues

• Libyan banknote gets a new security thread (Banknote News).
• New Thai  50 baht and 100 baht notes (Banknote News).
• Bhutan plans new banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Augusta Coin Club Show, Grovetown, GA, Nov. 21-22 (Augusta Coin Club).
• Indiana State Coin Show, Plainfield, IN, Nov. 21-22 (Coinshows-USA).
• Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement, TX, Nov. 21-22 (J FItz Shows).
• Cheyenne Coin Expo, Cheyenne, WY, Nov. 21-22 (Coinshows-USA).
• Carolina Coin and Stamp Show, Raleigh, NC, Nov. 22-23 (Coinshows-USA).
• Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Show, Salem, VA, Nov. 22-23 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      November 22

• Phoenix, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; Tampa, FL; Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids, MI; Fargo, ND; Lakewood, WA
  Burnaby, BC; Kingston, ON

​​      November 23

• Gardena, CA; Novato, CA; Greenacres, FL; Peotone, IL; Devens, MA; Livonia, MI; New Baltimore, MI
  Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Westlake, OH; North Huntingdon, PA; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Heritage Tuesday U.S. Currency Auction, November 18 (HA)
• Heritage Tuesday World Currency Auction, November 18 (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).
• Stack's U.S. 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).
• Archives International Auction 108, November 25 (AIA).
• CGB Internet Auction, November 25 (CGB Numsimatique).
• Noonans World Banknote Auction, November 25-27 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Stack's Canadian Banknote Sale, December 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency Auction 46, December 2 (Crown Currency).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Auction, December 5-9 (HA).
• Stack's Obsolete Currency Auction, December 11 (Stack's Bowers).

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

• How Beijing Became the World's Largest Currency Printer Overnight (The 420).
• De La Rue's role in Bhutan's new banknote series (De La Rue).

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

• Are Constant Currency Changes Just a Way to Steal Public Funds? (Kursiv).
• The History of Money Laundering (Financial Crime Academy).

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