News & Notes Volume XI, No. 47

May 5, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Visit to the Bank of Canada's Museum Blog

• Whatever Happened to the Penny? A History of Our One-Cent Coin. From August 2025.
• Good as Gold? A Simple Explanation of the Gold Standard. From August 2025.
• Lessons from the Great Depression. From April 2024.
• Welcoming Newfoundland to Canada. From March 2024.
• A Checkup on Cheques. From September 2023.
• Scenes of Canada Series $100 Bill. From July 2023.
• Security is in the Banknote. From March 2023.
• The Day Winnipeg was Invaded. From November 2022.
• Army Bills: Funding the War of 1812. From June 2022.

Currency Coming and Going

• Syrian central bank reports on currency replacement (SANA).
• Ugandan woman's inheritance turns out to have been demonetized (Pulse).
• Hong Kong fire leaves resident with a charred inheritance (South China Morning Post).
• Russia drops more Ukrainian propaganda banknotes (Mezha).
• Norway to retain 1,000 krone notes (Norges Bank).
• Denmark's deadline for redeeming soon-to-be-demonetized banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The "free silver" crusade in 1870s Colorado (Colorado Newsline).
• Wartime Balance of Payments in Neutral Sweden (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• May 2026 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• Netherlands note featured in upcoming Crown Currency auction (PMG).
• Sudan's former President of Gaafar Nimeiry on currency (Banknote World).
• Brazilian politician & writer Ruy Barbosa on the 10 cruzados banknote (Banknote World).
• Hesse-Darmstadt Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Hesse-Kassel Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Hesse-Homburg Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Presenting the Ukrainian Choir Collection (Stack's Bowers).
• To Rob Peter to Pay Paul's Office (Stack's Bowers).
• Selections from Stack's upcoming auction of the Logan Talks Collection (E-Sylum).
• Robert Graham Banknote Collection offered at Toronto Expo sale (Canadian Coin News).
• Sattler Scrip of Buffalo, New York (SPMC).
• Noteworthy Notes: 1934-B $20 Federal Reserve Note (Coinweek).
• A look at the recent CSNS show (Numismatic News).
• Carl Schurz: From Prussian Rebel to U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romania's Joan of Arc (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• A previously unknown piece of notgeld from Mittelberg, 1945 (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Cuba's new 5,000 peso note (Banknote News).
• Qatar's new denominations (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Mississippi Numismatic Association Coin Show, Biloxi, MS, May 7-9 (Coinshows-USA).
• Visalia Coin Show, Visalia, CA, May 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 9

• Burnaby, BC; Santa Maria, CA; Largo, FL; Okahumpka, FL; Tampa, FL; Owensboro, KY; Roseville, MN
  Colts Neck, NJ; Broadview Heights, OH; Toronto, ON; Chambersburg, PA

      May 10

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT; Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Royal Oak, MI; Melville, NY; Peterborough, ON
  Telford, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Spink World and British Banknotes Auction, May 6 (Spink).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, May 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 1, May 6 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Maastricht Showcase Auction, Session 2, May 7 (Stack's Bowers).
• Kelleher & Rogers Asian Banknotes and Coins Auction, May 7 (Kelleher Auctions)
• Crown Currency Live Auction 54, May 7-8 (Crown Currency).
• Heritage Spring Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, May 10 (HA).
• Stack's World Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's The Logan Talks Collection, May 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Auction, May 26 (CGB Numismatique).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• PAN Spring Coin Show, Monroeville, PA, May 28-30 (PAN)
• Baltimore Summer Expo, Baltimore, MD, June 11-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

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

• "Confusion trick" targets Phuket restaurants (Thaiger).
• Fake stablecoins (Currency Analytics).

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