News & Notes Volume XII, No. 11

August 25, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  Browsing the Rothschild Archive
--A selection of "Archivist's Choice" articles featuring selected items from the Rothschild Archive, London--

• The Irish 3% Loan, 1847
• D-Day', 1971: Decimalisation souvenirs, 1968-1971.
• Stockbroker’s Token, 1824.
• Brazilian bond and scrip, 1824
• Manchester Ship Canal Company Prospectus, 1886
• Suez Canal loan receipts, 1876
• Chinese Sycees, 1901 and 1903
• ‘Ancient Cheques’, 1813-1864
• Wooden box of precious metal samples, c.1860

Currency Coming and Going

• If Venezuela abandoned the bolivar (Yahoo Finance).
• For Ninoy Aquino’s grandson, man on P500 bill was simply ‘Lolo’ (Inquirer.net).
• Pakistan considers replacing its Rs 10 banknote with a coin (The Nation).
• A walk through the Bundesbank's Cold War-era bunker (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Joseph de la Vega and the beginnings of Amsterdam's stock market (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• The 1923 Lincoln Porthole $5 Silver Certificate (Coinweek).
• South Africa Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• An 1890 $100 Watermelon note appears at auction (Coinweek).
• Bahamas Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• More from the Jack Copeland currency collection (Stack's Bowers).
• The Faroe Islands 1,000 Kronur note featuring the poet Janus Djurhuus (Banknote World).
• The South Korea's Admiral Yi Sun-sin on its money (Banknote World).
• The 2026 Higgins Museum Seminar (E-Sylum).
• Searching for the U.S. Commemorative Banknote (Numismatic News).
• A note for Uruguay's Independence Day (PMG).
• Francisco del Rosario Sanchez on a Dominican Republic banknote (Banknote World).
• The UNESCO World Heritage site featured on a Jordanian 1/2 dinar note (Banknote World).
• Selections from the upcoming Global Showcase auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Crown Currency auction includes rare Dutch 1,000 Gulden note (PMG).
• Irish notes fetching high prices (Numismatic News).
• The Bikini Nightmare Short Snorter (E-Sylum).
• Selections from Stack's upcoming Canadian banknote auction (E-Sylum).
• Noonans offers Palestine specimen notes (PMG).
• Latin American banknotes on sale at Stack's Global Showcase auction (PMG).
• U.S. tariffs and the Canadian numismatic market (Canadian Coin News).
• A New Chapter for Raleigh Money Expo Starting in 2027 (Greysheet).
• Book: Deutsche Mark for the War (Geldscheine-online, book and book review in German).

New Banknote Issues

• Saint Thomas & Prince commemorative  banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide). Also here (Banknote News).
• Cuba claims distribution of new notes, but the public doesn't see them (Cuba Headlines).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Tulsa Coin Show, Glenpool, OK, August 28-29 (Coinzip).
• Sumter Coin Club Annual Show, Sumter, SC, August 28-29 (Coinshows-USA).
• Beaumont Coin Show, Orange, TX, August 28-29 (Coinzip).
• Arcadia Coin Show, Arcadia, CA, August 29-30 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      August 29

• Orange, CT; Schererville, IN; Hagerstown, MD; Westlake, OH; Markham, ON

   August 30

• Westport, MA; Livonia, MI; Cinti, OH
   

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• World & British Banknotes Auction, August 27 (Spink).
• The Sparta Collection of Wisconsin National Bank Notes, August 30 (GreatCollections).
• Noonans World Banknote Auction, September 2-3 (Noonans Mayfair).
• 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).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 6 (GreatCollections).
• Global Showcase Auction, Session G, September 8 (Stack's Bowers).
• CGB Internet Auction, September 8 (CGB Numismatique).
• Archives International Auction 116, September 9 (AIA).
• Crown Currency Live Auction 58, September 10 (Crown Currency).
• Celebration of Stars--U.S. Currency Auction, September 10 (Lyn Knight).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 13 (GreatCollections).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 13 (GreatCollections).
• World Collectors Choice Auction, September 14 (Stack's Bowers).
• A Special Offering of Large Size Currency, September 20 (HA).

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

• Counterfeit Swiss gold bars in Lebanese markets (See News).
• A PayPal scam unravels in Arkansas (The American Bazaar).
• A Curious Case of Counterfeiting in 1837 (Conway Daily Sun).
• Counterfeit Detection: Continental Currency $60 Counterfeit Detector (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