News & Notes Volume XII, No. 7

July 28, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Currency and Banking in Iowa

  (mostly early material)

• Iowa's Banking History, Des Moines-focused (The Midland Monthly Magazine). Pdf at link. From 1894.
• Merritt's The Early History of Banking in Iowa (The University of Iowa). Pdf at link. From 1900.
• The State Bank of Iowa (Annals of Iowa). Pdf at link. From 1901.
• Preston's History of Banking in Iowa (The University of Iowa). Pdf at link. From 1922.
• Bank Failures in Iowa (The Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics). Pdf at link. From 1926.
• Schmitt's GRIEF. 18 Years as a Middle Western Country Banker (Leo F. Schmitt). Pdf at link. From 1928.
• The Struggle to Preserve Iowa's State Banking System, 1920-1933 (Annals of Iowa). Pdf at link. From 2001.
• Circulation of the State Bank of Iowa (Paper Money). Pdf at link. From 2022.

Currency Coming and Going

• Liberia will go back to issuing 5 and 10 dollar banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• India plans trial issue of 10 and 20 rupee polymer notes (Times of India).
• Should Paper Checks be Abolished? (The Conversation).
• Older Syrian notes are losing their legal tender (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Philippines central bank recycles polymer banknotes into armchairs (The Manila Times).
• What the Thayer Amendment does, and doesn't, do (Reason).
• The place where you can visit every euro banknote bridge (Euronews).
• Syria tightens currency regulations at border crossings (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Nepal allows entry of Indian banknotes (Conde Nast Traveler).
• A wallet-and-banknote statue complements Belarusian tower (Nashaniva).
• Venice’s 1499 Banking Crisis Part I – Failure of Garzoni Bank (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Have You Ever Heard of a $13 Bill? (Stack's Bowers).
• Chinese external bonds up for auction (Stack's Bowers).
• The Currency of the Ober Ost (Numismatic News).
• 1869 Rainbow $2 Bill (Coinweek).
• WWI circulations of the General Bank of Romania (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Sonoran Heritage (ANA's Reading Room).
• Saudi Arabia's Murabba Palace (Banknote World).
• Sample Italian 5,000 and 10,000 lire banknotes (Cronaca Numismatica, in Italian).

New Banknote Issues

• Proposed designs for the new euro banknote series (Geldscheine-online, in German). Also here (European Central Bank).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Visalia Coin Show, Visalia CA, July 31-August 1 (Coinshows-USA).
• Mustang Coin Show, Mustang OK, July 31-August 1 (Coinshows-USA).
• Low Country Summer Coin Show, Ladson SC, July 31-August 2 (LCCC).
• El Paso Coin Show, El Paso TX, August 1-2 (Coinzip).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 1

• Tampa, FL; Williamsport, PA; Knoxville, TN; Siren, WI
   

   August 2

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Collinsville, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA; Wyandotte, MI
  Maple Grove, MN; Independence, MO; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Archives International Auction 115, July 28 (AIA).
• Mavin International Auction 69A, July 31 (Mavin).
• Stack's Collectors Choice U.S. Currency, August 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Heritage Summer Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, August 9 (HA).
• CGB banknote auction, August 11 (CGB Numismatique).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• World's Fair of Money, Pittsburgh PA, August 25-29 (ANA).
• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach CA, September 9-11 (PCGS).
• Great American Coin & Collectibles Show, Rosemont IL, September 30-Otober 3 (GACC).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Orell Füssli's first half 2026 performance (Tip Ranks).

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

• Apple stung by fake crypto wallet on its app store (Coinpedia).
• "Did a Waitress Try to Scam Me?" (brobible).
• Macau gambler targeted with hell banknotes (The Macau Post Daily).
• Counterfeits in Queensland (ABC).
• Vignettes in Anti-counterfeiting (E-Sylum).

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