News & Notes Volume XII, No. 10

August 18, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Mountains on Money

•  The India 100 Rupees Banknote Featuring Kangchenjunga – The Third Highest Mountain in the World (Banknote World). From 2026.
• $5 Banknote, featuring Mt. Cook (Reserve Bank of New Zealand). From 2024. See also Edmund Hillary & The New Zealand 5 Dollar Banknote (Banknote World).
• Collection Inspiration: Mountains (PMG). From 2023.
• A Banknote and Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian 20 schilling note (Panorama Box). From 2023, in German.
• Moving Mountains (Bank of Canada Museum). From 2021.
• Notes of the Chiremba Rocks, the Nyanga Mountains (Smithwick Numismatics). From 2021.
• Mountains and Money: Europe and America (PeakVisor). From 2019.
• Mountains & Money: Asia Edition (PeakVisor). From 2019.
• Chinese Renminbi banknote scenery: Mount Tai (CGTN). From 2019.
• Mountains of Cash (International Monetary Fund). From 2016.
• Mount Everest dominates Nepal's banknotes (Die Welt). From 2013, in German.

Currency Coming and Going

• India's "cash paradox" (Business Standard).
• U.S. dollar travails in Costa Rica (Tico Times).
• Ghana's currency needs "refreshing" (Modern Ghana). Also here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Iraqi redenomination plans (Iraqi News).
• How Gujarat's 1,000-Year-Old Architectural Marvel Made It To Currency (The Free Press Journal).
• The Azerbaijani Manat turns 34 (1News).
• Are you aware of the hidden cost of writing on banknotes? (The Daily Star).
• Sudan demonetizes low value notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Banking Panic and a Shipwrecked Rescue (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• Gold and Silver as Legal Tender? (Bitcoin World).

The Business of Collecting

• The Papua Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• The Bahrain Numismatic Society (GDN Online).
• Some big denomination notes at auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Bronze Surcharge Fractional Currency Errors (Numismatic News).
• A Curious Printer for a Post WWI Currency Issue (Stack's Bowers).
• The Berbice Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• National Gold Banks of California (Coinweek).
• The Taiwanese Banknotes Featuring the Presidential Office Building of Taipei (Banknote World).
• The 200 Francs Banknote Honoring Swiss Writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (Banknote World).
• Straits Settlements Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Currency Portraits: Mahatma Gandhi (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The 2,000 Rupiah Banknote Dedicate to Prince Antasari (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Kentucky State Coin Show, Shepherdsville, KY, August 20-22 (JB82 Expos).
• The Gadsden Coin Show, Gadsden, AL, August 21-22 (Greater Gadsden).
• The Santa Clara Coin Show, Santa Clara, CA, August 21-22 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Wichita Show, Wichita KS, August 21-22 (Coinzip).
• Central Virginia Coin Club Show, Colonial Heights, VA, August 21-22 (CVCC).
• Tallahassee Coin Club Show, Tallahassee, FL, August 22-23 (Coinzip).
• The Grapevine Coin Show, Grapevine, TX, August 22-23 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Salem-Roanoke Valley Coin Show, Salem, VA, August 22-23 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 22

• Phoenix, AZ; Naugatuck, CT; High Point, NC; Wasaga Beach, ON; Kent, WA
   

   August 23

• McClellan, CA; San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Topsham, ME; Cockeysville, MD
  Batavia, NY; Melville, NY; Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Stack's Collectors Choice Online Auction, August 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Hot Springs Collection of Fractional Currency, August 23 (GreatCollections).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, August 23 (GreatCollections).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, August 30 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 3, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 4, September 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session 7, September 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• 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).
• Heritage Summer Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, September 6 (HA).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 8 (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

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

• Bahamas warns against "unauthorized" banknotes (Caribbean National Weekly).
• Scammers tricked him into thinking he was withdrawing counterfeit bills (4WWL).

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