News & Notes Volume XI, No. 49

May 19, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Visit to the ANA's "Reading Room"

• Raising the Stakes (raised banknotes notes in antebellum America). From 2026.
• Musical Resonance (Belgian banknote featuring André Ernest Modeste Grétry). From 2026.
• Illicit Enterprise (disreputable banks in Petersburg, Indiana). From 2026.
• Tumultuous Times (saga of Nashville shinplasters). From 2025.
• Financial Losses (national banks of Johnson County, Indiana). From 2024.
• Leap of Faith (land diving on Vanuatu's banknotes). From 2024.
• Talented Performer (legacy of the ventriloquist Nicholas Vattemar). From 2024.

Currency Coming and Going

• National Bank of Moldova hosts a museum event (Logos Press).
• Shariah Perspective on Cryptocurrency (Daily Sun).
• Free Choice in Currency, or the Case for Dollarization in the Americas (Cato Institute).
• Minnesota prohibits virtual currency kiosks (JDSupra).
• Continental Illinois and the Origin of "Too Big to Fail" (Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Frankfurt Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Collection Inspiration: Museums (PMG).
• Results of Stack's Maastricht auction (Greysheet). Also here (Stack's Bowers).
• Trigometric offers rare Sarawak fractional note (PMG).
• Heritage offers rare Chinese 10,000 yuan note (PMG).
• Maria Montessori on Italian money (Banknote World).
• Celebrating the Slovene poet France Prešeren (Banknote World).
• PMG Note of the Month: Hong Kong 1,000 Dollars (PMG).
• Castle Views and Bank News in Wilmerding, PA (Numismatic News).
• Selections from the upcoming Archives International auction (E-Sylum).
• The Caine Collection of obsolete banknotes (E-Sylum). And here (Stack's Bowers).
• Composer George Enescu on Romania's currency (Banknote World).
• More selections from the Caine Collection (PMG).
• Noonans offers Qatar specimens (PMG).
• Images of Columbia (Numismatic News).
• A visit to the Maastricht fair (Sixbid).
• Banknote Portraits: Skanderberg, Albania's Champion of Christ (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Scrip of the Austrian settlement in Brazil (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Krone, Króna, Koruna, Kroon and Круна (Geldscheine-online, in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Bangladesh's new 5 taka note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Madagascar's 20,000 ariary note has a new security thread (Banknote News).
• Bank of Guatemala commemorates its foundation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Pakistan proposes new banknote designs (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Denmark issues a new version of its 50 kroner note (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Augusta Coin Club Show, Grovetown, GA, May 22-23 (Augusta Coin Club).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      May 23

• Phoenix, AZ; Hudson, FL; Schererville, IN

      May 24

• San Fernando, CA; Vacaville, CA; Greenacres, FL; North Attleboro, MA; St. John, NB; Batavia, NY
  Melville, NY; Westlake, OH; Cookstown, ON; Albany, OR; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, May 20 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Sun Rose Collection of U.S. Paper Money, May 24 (GreatCollections).
• CGB Auction, May 26 (CGB Numismatique).
• Noonans World Banknote Auction, May 27 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Archives International Auction 113, May 27 (AIA).
• Stack's Premier Collectors Choice Auction, May 28 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's World Collectors Choice Auction, June 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Trigometric June 2026 Auction, June 6 (Trigometric).
• The Black Hills Collection of Paper Money, June 7 (GreatCollections).
• Heritage Spring Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, June 14 (HA).
• Heritage World Paper Money Signature Auction, June 16 (HA).

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

• Papua New Guinea's commemorative note wins industry award (The National).

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 Forum).

From the Annals of Crime

• Cambodia warns against AI-generated banknotes (Khmer Times).
• Counterfeit Detection: Hong Kong 10 Dollars (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