News & Notes Volume XI, No. 32
January 20, 2026
From the Internet Bookshelf
More Selections from JP Koning's Blog, "Moneyness"
- How to Stop a Hyperinflation. From 2012.
- Chartalism = The McDonald's Coupon Theory of Money. From 2012.
- Yap Stones and the Myth of Fiat Money. From 2013.
- Angolan Macutes: Imaginary Money. From 2014.
- How Anonymous is Cash? From 2016.
- Can a Central Bank Eliminate its Highest Value Banknote? From 2016.
- Why Hasn't Canadian Tire Money Displaced the Canadian Dollar? From 2016.
- A Tax, Not a Ban, on High Denomination Notes. From 2018.
- Death of a Northern Irish Banknote. From 2019.
Currency Coming and Going
- The decline of cash in Norway (My Norway).
- Thais debate demonetizing large banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- New banknotes for the Taliban, old ones for everyone else (Hasht e Subh).
- Canada's "unfit" polymer banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Old Zambian banknotes to lose their legal tender status (Mwebantu).
- The First Bulgarian Banknote (BNT News).
- Landschaften Mortgage Bonds (The Tontine Coffee-House).
- Princeton loses its numismatics collection curator (The Daily Princetonian).
The Business of Collecting
- Collection Inspiration: Volcanoes (PMG).
- Highlights of upcoming Crown Currency auction (PMG).
- Note of the Month: India 100 Rupees Commemorative (PMG).
- Spink offerings include rare Egyptian banknote (PMG).
- The American Revolution and Poland's First Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
- "Circus Poster" $5 Brown Back from Ashland, Wisconsin (Stack's Bowers).
- The history of $1000 Federal Reserve Notes (Coinweek).
- A 19th century Burnley banknote up for auction (Yahoo News).
- Notable Notes: The Lincoln "Porthole" $5 Silver Certificate (Coinweek).
- An Oklahoma Territorial banknote from Shawnee (Numismatic News).
- Montesquieu on French money (Banknote World).
- Commemorating Libera's President William Tolbert (Banknote World).
- High denomination note results from Heritage's FUN auction (PMG).
- Bicentennial $2 Bills (E-Sylum).
- Buy the Holder, Not the Coin (Coinweek).
New Banknote Issues
- Pakistan's new currency series will include one polymer note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
- Trinidad & Tobago's new coat-of-arms (The Voice).
- The new Honduras 200 lempiras note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week
Multi-Day Shows
- 60th Annual Hot Springs Coin Show, Hot Springs, AR, January 22-24 (Hot Springs Coin Show).
- St. Pete - Clearwater Coin Show, Dunedin, FL, January 23-24 (Coinshows-USA).
- Middle Georgia Coin and Currency Show, Perry, GA, January 23-24 (Coinshows-USA).
- Red River Valley Coin Show, Fargo, ND, January 23-25 (RRVCC).
- The Arcadia Coin etc. Show, Arcadia, CA, January 24-25 (Coinshows-USA).
- Coinarama San Diego, San Diego, CA, January 24-25 (Coinarama).
- CAND Coin Show, Hamilton, ON, January 24-25 (Canadian Coin News).
- West Penn Coin Show, New Kensington, PA, January 24-25 (Coinshows-USA).
(Always call ahead to confirm)
January 24
January 25
Upcoming Online Currency Auctions
- Heritage Tuesday Select U.S. Currency Auction, January 20 (Greysheet). Unclear if this is happening.
- Heritage Tuesday Select World Currency Auction, January 20 (Greysheet). Unclear if this is happening.
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session C, January 20 (Stack's Bowers).
- Archives International Auction No. 110, January 20 (AIA).
- Stack's January 2026 World Showcase Auction, Session D, January 21 (Stack's Bowers).
- Heritage Winter U.S. Obsolete Currency Auction, January 25 (HA).
- The Surrey Collection of Fancy Serial Numbers, January 25 (GreatCollections).
- Spink World Banknotes Auction, January 27 (Spink).
- Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, January 29 (Stack's Bowers).
- Crown Currency Auction 49, February 3 (Crown Currency).
- The Ibrahim Salem Collection of Syria and Lebanon, February 12 (Noonans Mayfair).
- CGB Internet Auction, February 17 (CGB Numismatique).
Major Coin and Currency Shows
- National History Stock Certificate and Bond Show, Herndon, VA, January 23-24 (Stock and Bond Show).
- World Money Fair, Berlin, Germany, January 29-31 (World Money Fair).
- ANA's National Money Show, Savannah, GA, February 26-28 (ANA).
- Whitman Expo, Baltimore, MD, March 5-7 (Whitman Expos).
- Numismata Munich, Munich, Germany, March 7-8 (Numismata).
Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries
- Crane Currency and U.S. banknote paper (Numismatic News).
- Ethiopia will begin printing its own currency (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- 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
- Kitchener bank fooled by 40 toonies rolls filled with washers (CTV News).
- Syria denies reports that its new currency has been counterfeited (Annahar).
- Counterfeit Detection: The First Series renminbi banknotes (PMG).
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
