News & Notes Volume XI, No. 33

January 27, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Various Pieces on Venezuelan Currency

• The First Paper Money of Venezuela (Stack's Bowers). From 2024.
• The Redenomination of Venezuela's Banknotes, 2008-2024 (Keesing Platform). From 2024.
• A Brief History of the Venezuelan Bolivar (Banknote World). From 2022.
• Portraits and profiles on Venezuelan currency:  José Antonio Páez, José María Vargas, Francisco de Miranda, and Guaicaipuro (Banknote World). From 2025.
• Who's Who on Venezuelan Notes, Part I and Part II (IBNS). From 2002-3.
• Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (The Banknote Den).

Currency Coming and Going

• Taiwan's central bank launches banknote design contest (RTI News).
• So far, two-thirds of Bulgaria's old lev circulation has been retired (Bulgarian News Agency).
• Bank of Tanzania implores women not to store money in their bras (The Citizen).
• Vietnam denies removing small banknotes from circulation (Asian News Network).
• The Greek coin on the seal of Afghanistan's central bank (The Greek Reporter).
• Currency as Culture (Ria).
• The Falklands to retire old notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• 100 years of the Czech National Bank (CNB).
• Donald Trump and an old Iraqi banknote (Turkiye Today).
• Las Vegas hotels accept Canadian dollars at par (CP24).
• How East Germany disposed of its 1964 banknote series (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Desjardins and Quebec's Credit Union Movement (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Upcoming museum exhibit: The History of Money in Finland (Visit Finland).
• Good Samaritan finds cash, returns it (YubaNet).
• "Barrett Bucks" at Arizona State University (The State Press).

The Business of Collecting

• National bank notes of Goldthwaite, Texas (Numismatic News).
• Stocking up with Scripophily (Numismatic News).
• Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's banknote auction (Numismatic News).
• McKee's Port vs. McKeesport (Stack's Bowers).
• A Tourist from a Desk (Stack's Bowers).
• A Singular Survivor: The Finest Known 1907 $1000 Gold Certificate (Coinweek).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 260, February 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French).
• Currency Portraits: Idi Amin, the "Butcher of Africa" (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Honoring the Barbadian Prime Minister Grantley Herbert Adams (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• The new Czech commemorative note (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Banknote News).
• The new St. Helena 5 pound, 10 pound, and 20 pound banknotes (Banknote News).
• China's 20 yuan commemorative (Banknote News).
• The Tajik 100 somoni commemorative (Banknote News).
• The Omani 1 rial commemorative (Banknote News).
• Syria's new 10 pound, 25 pound, 50 pound, 100 pound, 200 pound, and 500 pound notes (Banknote News).
• Fiji's transition to polymer (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Denver Coin Club, Golden, CO, January 30-31 (Coinshows-USA).
• Texarkana Coin Show, Texarkana, TX, January 30-31 (Coinshows-USA).
• Low Country Winter Coin Show, Ladson, SC, January 30-February 1 (Low Country Coin Club).
• CoinExpo San Jose, San Jose, CA, January 31-February 1 (Griffin Coins).
• Hidalgo Coin Club Show, McAllen, TX, January 31-February 1 (Coinzip).
• Vienna Coin and Stamp Show, Vienna, VA, January 31-February 1 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      January 31

• Lacey, WA

      February 1

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Dedham, MA; Southfield, MI
  Parsippany, NJ; Fairview Park, OH; Paris, ON

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Spink World Banknotes Auction, January 27 (Spink).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, January 29 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's British and World Banknote Auction, January 29 (SGB).
• Lyn Knight Auction, January 30 (Lyn Knight).
• 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

• 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

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

• Algerian soccer fan gets eight months in prison for abusing Moroccan banknote (Morocco World News).
• Laos imposes fines for damaging banknotes (The Laotian Times).
• Korea warns about banknotes circulating with K-Pop artists' portraits (Korea JoongAng Daily).
• 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