News & Notes Volume XI, No. 43

April 7, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Money Out of this World

• Space and Astronomy Banknotes (Steven Bron).
• Un-manned Satellites and Earth Imagery on  Banknotes and Coins (Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch).
• The Moon on Banknotes (Full Moon).
• The Bangladesh 70 Taka Banknote Commemorating the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 (Banknote World). From 2025.
• Space Exploration Through Banknotes (Banknote World). From 2023.
• Astronomy in Your Wallet (Planet S). From 2017.
• Cosmic Tracking Banknotes (PMG). From 2016.
• AND some astronomers on banknotes: Ibn al-Haytham (Iraq); Julio Garavito Armero (Colombia); Galileo (Italy); Copernicus (Poland) (all from Banknote World).

Currency Coming and Going

• Oman plans to demonetize certain older notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cuba to feature women on its banknotes (Caribbean Today).
• Washington Trust's OG Bank Notes Did it First (Rhode Island Monthly).
• Euro Identity Crisis: Beethoven or Birds? (Euractiv).
• Banknote Designers with a Sense of Humor (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• BOOK: Money Beyond Borders (E-Sylum).
• The Cotton Market in 19th Century Liverpool (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Highlights from Stack's upcoming Hong Kong sale (Stack's Bowers).
• How to Date a Plain Back Series of 1902 National Bank Note (Stack's Bowers).
• Austria honors Karl Ritter von Ghega (Banknote World).
• Merchant notes and scrip from glass manufacturers, Part I (Numismatic News).
• William F. Airey, Writer of Checks (SPMC).
• Space-flown currency at auction (Numismatic News).
• Nassau Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).

New Banknote Issues

• A look at Papua New Guinea's new 100 kina note (Banknote World).
• Zimbabwe's new ZiG banknotes enter circulation (Zim Live).
• Another Ukrainian commemorative (Banknote News).
• Botswana's 50 pula commemorative (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Christal Clear Coin Show, North Kansas City, MO, April 9-11 (CC Coin Shows).
• SETX Coin Show, Orange, TX, April 10-11 (Coinshows-USA).
• Northern Utah Coin Show, Ogden, UT, April 10-11 (Utah Coin Shows).
• Western Slope Coin Show, Grand Junction, CO, April 10-12 (Coinshows-USA).
• Edmonton Coin Show, Edmonton, AB, April 11-12 (Canadian Coin News).
• Azalea Festival Coin Show, Wilmington, NC, April 11-12 (Lower Cape Fear Coin Club).
• National Postage Stamp and Coin Show, Mississauga, ON, April 11-12 (Canadian Coin News).
• PNNA Spring Convention, Portland, OR, April 11-12 (PNNA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      April 11

• Brandon, FL; Largo, FL; Timonium, MD; Howell, MI; Roseville, MN; Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH
  Keswick, VA; Ridgeley, WV
   

      April 12

• Chino, CA; Novato, CA; Orange, CT (1); Orange, CT (2); Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL
  Decatur, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Auburn, MA; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Parsippany, NJ
  Melville, NY; Gallipolis, OH; Ottawa, ON; Meadville, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA; Oak Creek, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Archives International Auction 112, April 6-7 (AIA).
• Stack's World Collectors Choice Auction, April 7 (Stack's Bowers).
• Spink Hong Kong World Banknotes and Coins Auction, April 8 (Spink).
• Spink China Banknotes and Coins Auction, April 9 (Spink).
• Spink World Banknotes Auction, April 16 (Spink).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, April 17 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, April 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, April 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, April 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session E, April 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Auction April 21 (CGB Numismatique).
• Heritage CSNS U.S. Currency Signature Auction, April 28-May 1 (HA).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session !, May 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 2, May 7 (Stack's Bowers).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Central States Numismatic Society Convention, Schaumburg, IL, April 23-25 (CSNS).
• MIF Paper Money Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands, May 1-3 (MIF).
• PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 28-30 (PAN).
• Baltimore Summer Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 11-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Liberia to authorize new banknote printing (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Russia drops more Ukrainian propaganda counterfeits with QR codes (Ukrinform).
• Counterfeit money seizures in Portugal (The Portugal News).

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