News & Notes Volume XII, No. 4

July 7, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Portugal

• Portugal (Bank Note Museum).
• Portugal Banknote History (Banknote World). From 2021.
• Stranger than Fiction: The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925 (PMG). From 2019.
• The Effects of the 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis (London School of Economics) Pdf at link. From 2004.
• Portugal’s Adoption of the Gold Standard 1846-1854 (Economic History Research). Pdf at link. From 2025.
• Portuguese Currency Experience: An Historical Perspective (Econstor). Pdf at link. From 1979.
• Portugal's Bartolomue Dias (Banknote Den).
• Raihna Santa Isabel (Elizabeth of Portugal) (Banknote Den).
• The Portugal 50 Escudos Banknote Commemorating Maria Duchess of Viseu (Banknote World). From 2025.
• The Escudos Banknotes Featuring Portuguese President Óscar Carmona (Bankote World). From 2025.
• The 100 Escudos Banknote Celebrating Portuguese Poet & Writer Fernando Pessoa (Banknote World). From 2026.

Currency Coming and Going

• Bangladesh, don't do it! (The Financial Express).
• The Mystery of Australia's Missing Cash (ABC News).
• Trump Administration: No plans for the Tubman Twenty (Reuters).
• Talk to an A.I. Alexander Hamilton at the Museum of American Finance (CNBC).
• The First Bank of the United States Reopens--sort of (E-Sylum).
• Barry Eichengreen on the History of Global Currencies (Mercatus Center). Podcast with transcript.
• Sudan begins retiring low denomination banknotes (Sudanhorizon).
• Cubans encourage to use their low denomination banknotes (Radio Guantanamo).
• Eritrea prohibits the holding of local currency (MRI Banker's Guide).
• Is Eritrea's Currency Recall a Sign of War Preparations? (Horn Review).
• The $100 Trump signature (CNN). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• TWO BOOKS: The Austrian National Bank --Dawn of a New Era, and Once Upon a Time ... The Schilling (Geldscheine-online, books and book notice in German).
• A Grenadian Olympic champion will replace British royals on EC banknote (Associates Times). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Egypt denies banknote printing rumors (Ahram Online).
• 95% of Bulgarian leva are now retired (Sophia Globe).
• The Bank of England's new cashier to supervise banknote transitions (Yahoo Finance).
• The $100,000 bill (CCC News).
• Cash hoarding in Russia (United24).
• Las Vegas "At Par" currency promotion entices Canadian visitors (Casino.org).
• BItcoin is Not Freedom: The Delusion of Digital Escape (Mises Institute).
• De-dollarization Without a Common Currency (Eurasia Review).

The Business of Collecting

• Pudsey Pays Off (Scottish Financial News).
• July 2026 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• Highlights of Noonans' upcoming sale (E-Sylum).
• Danish actress Johanne Luise Heiberg on a banknote (Banknote World).
• Chile's Ignacio Carrera Pinto on the 1,000 peso note (Banknote World).
• Certified Collectibles Group acquires the Krause-Mishler and Pick Catalogs (PMG).
• CGB's Bulletin Numismatique No. 265, July-Aug 2026 (CGB Numismatique, in French). Pdf at link.
• A rare St. Lucia note offered by Stack's (Stack's Bowers).
• A "Triple Signature" Series of 1878 $10 Silver Certificate offered by Stack's (Stack's Bowers).
• Trigometric offers rare Malaysian banknotes (PMG).
• PMG Note of the Month: 2009A $100 Federal Reserve Note (PMG).

New Banknote Issues

• Azerbaijan's "updated" 100 manat banknote (MENA FM).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Amarillo Coin and Currency Show, Amarillo, TX, July 10-12 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      July 11

• Largo, FL; Sulphur, LA; Big Flats, ; Broadview Heights, OH; Knoxville, TN; Richardson, TX

     July 12

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT; Melbourne, FL; Marietta, GA; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN
  Topsham, ME; Royal Oak, MI; Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Salem, OR
  Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• CGB Live Auction, July 7 (CGB Numismatique).
• British and Irish Banknote Auction, July 8 (Noonans Mayfair).
• July 2026 Collectors' Choice - Jack Copeland Auction, July 9 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Confederate Currency Auction, July 12 (HA).
• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• Mid-Year World Paper Money Auction, July 15 (Stack's Bowers).
• Lyn Knight Summer Celebration auction, July 15 (Lyn Knight).
• Trigometric Auction, July 18 (Trigometric).
• World Premier Collectors' Choice Auction, July 21 (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 56, July 22 (Crown Currency).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Summer FUN Show, Orlando, FL, July 9-11 (FUN).
• RCNA Annual Convention, Winnipeg, MB, July 14-18 (Canadian Coin News).
• World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh, PA, August 25-29 (ANA).
• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach, CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Vietnam's "first banknote printing factory" (Vietnam.vn).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• Security Designers Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7-10. 2026 (Security Designers Form).
• The Silk Road Cash & Payments Conference, Almaty,  Kazakhstan, September 15-17, 2026 (Currency Research).
• The Coin Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 28-20, 2026 (The Coin Conference).
• Intergraf Currency + Identity, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-16, 2026 (Biometric Update).
• Island Nations Currency & Payments Settlement, Nadi, Fiji, October 26-28, 2026 (Currency Research).
• High Security Printing-Asia, Hong Kong, China, November 3-December 2, 2026 (Reconnaissance).
• Optical & Digital Document Security, Berlin, Germany, January 25-27, 2027 (Reconnaissance).
• High Security Printing-EMEA, Vienna, Austria, March 1-3, 2027 (Reconnaissance).
• The Currency Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 24-26, 2027 (Currency Research).
• High Security Printing-Americas, Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9, 2027 (Reconnaissance).

From the Annals of Crime

• Korean bank manager replaces embezzled funds with "penguin" notes (United Daily).
• "Antique banknote" smuggler thwarted (Reform News).
• Where Iraq's dirty money comes from (Shafaq 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