News & Notes Volume XII, No. 8

August 4, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Marie (Sklodowska-) Curie on Currency

  (past and future)

• ECB’s new banknotes reignite Franco-Polish tug-of-war over Marie Curie’s legacy (Politico). From 2025. May be gated.
• New euro banknotes spark Franco-Polish dispute over Marie Curie's name (Euronews). From 2025.
• Nobel Prize Winners on Banknotes (Bankote World). From 2022.
• Collection Inspiration: Famous Women and Collection Inspiration: Nobel Prize Laureates (PMG). Both links include Curie. From 2021.
• Currency Notes: Noteworthy Women (International Monetary Fund). From 2015.
• Poland's 20 zloty commemorative banknote (National Bank of Poland). Pdf at link. From 2011.
• Is There a Marie Curie Coin? (APMEX). Yes there are. From 2025.

Currency Coming and Going

• How Kuwait’s banks kept the financial system afloat during the Iraqi invasion (Kuwait Times).
• Chinese man tears up retirement savings, bank puts it back together (Vietnam.vn).
• Luxembourg generates weaponed-themed banknote images, says it's sorry (RTL Today).
• Callas, Beethoven, bee-eaters or storks: competition seeks to redesign euro notes (The Guardian).
• Maria Callas shortlisted for new €5 banknote (The Greek Herald).
• Assad-era banknotes lose their legal tender status (Arab News).
• Syrian fatwa seeks to prevent currency from being traded below face value (Enab Baladi).
• Calls to revive the Tubman $20 issue (Reuters).
• India confirms polymer note plans (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Venice’s 1499 Banking Crisis, Part II (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• Highlights of Stack's upcoming Collectors Choice auction (Stack's Bowers).
• The Gentleman's Collection of Canadian banknotes (Stack's Bowers).
• August 2026 Greensheet Market Analysis (Greysheet).
• Selections from upcoming Crown Currency auction (PMG).
• Upcoming Monetarium auction features Malay and British Borneo specimens (PMG).
• America’s Finest San Francisco 1918 $500 Note Returns to Auction (Coinweek).
• Christopher Columbus on currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Banknote Portraits: Lajos Kossuth (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Germany 50 Reichsmark Banknote Dedicated to Prussian Politician & Banker David Hansemann (Banknote World).
• The Pakistan 10 Rupees Banknote Featuring the Bab-e-Khyber in Khyber Pass (Banknote World).
• The 200 Pesetas Banknote Dedicated to Spanish Novelist & Journalist Leopoldo Alas (Banknote World).
• Discovering the Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection (Numismatic News).

New Banknote Issues

• The new East Caribbean States five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dollar, fifty dollar, and 100 dollar notes (Banknote News).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Blue Ridge Numismatic Association Convention, Dalton GA, August 6-8 (BRNA).
• Missouri Numismatic Society Annual Show, St. Charles MO, August 6-8 (MNS).
• Gainesville Coin Show, Gainesville TX, August 6-8 (Coinshows-USA).
• Central Valley Coin and Collectibles Show, Modesto CA, August 7-8 (Coinshows-USA).
• Las Vegas Locals Coin Show, Las Vegas NV, August 7-8 (Coinzip).
• Iredell-Statesville 31st Annual Coin Show, Statesville NC, August 8-9 (Coinzip).
• Vienna Coin Show, Vienna VA, August 8-9 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 8

• Largo, FL; Roseville, MN; Broadview Heights, OH; Fenelon Falls, ON
   

   August 9

• Phoenix, AZ; Orange, CT; Melbourne, FL; Countryside, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Auburn, MA; Royal Oak, MI
  Southfield, MI; Burlington Twp, NJ; Melville, NY; Paris, ON; Pittsburgh, PA; Telford, PA; Beaver Dam, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Stack's Collectors Choice U.S. Currency, August 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 57, August 5-7 (Crown Currency).
• Heritage Summer Obsolete Currency Showcase Auction, August 9 (HA).
• World Collectors Choice Auction, August 11 (Stack's Bowers).
• World Premier Collectors Choice Auction, the Britannia Collection, August 12 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB banknote auction, August 11 (CGB Numismatique).
• Monetarium Auction 41, August 17 (Monetarium).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 8, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session D, September 5 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session E, Golden Falcon Collection, September 6 (Stack's Bowers).

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

• De La Rue and Kenya (The Kenya Times).

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

• Arkansas man mixed in "motion picture money" (NEA Reports).
• This speedboat's engine trouble cost a lot of cash (Malta Today).

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