News & Notes Volume XII, No. 14

September 15, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Selection of Posts on Money and Currency from The Medium

• The Strange Promise of Demurrage Currency.
• The Most Beautiful UV Patterns in Banknotes.
• Sri Lanka's Banknotes.
• Why Roosevelt didn’t want the phrase “In God We Trust” on banknotes.
• Stablecoins: Repeating the Private Banknote of the 1700s-1800s.
• Whitewashing on Mexican banknotes?
• History of Pakistani Banknotes.
• All You May Want to Know About the Spaciest Banknote in the World.

Currency Coming and Going

• The Greek designer shortlisted for new euro banknote series (Cyprus Mail).
• Paraguayan banknotes to shift from "Presidents to Populat Culture" (Asuncion Times).
• Kyrgystan begins producing its own banknotes (Open).
• The Battle of Lutter am Barenberge on German notgeld (Salzgitter)
• No U.S. $2 bills planned for 2026 (Numismatic News).
• History Of Women And Credit Cards: 1970s To Present (Forbes).
• European publics to vote on future banknote designs (Euro News).
• The future of euro cash: trusted today, designed for tomorrow (European Central Bank).
• Loans for Greek Independence, 1824-25 (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• De-reservification, not De-dollarization (Council on Foreign Relations).
• Austria-Hungary-History of a Monetary Separation, Part II (Geldscheine-online, in German).

The Business of Collecting

• Rust and Bank Notes in Mingo Junction – Part 2 (Numismatic News).
• Further results from the Jack Copeland currency collection sale (Stack's Bowers).
• The Konark Sun Temple & Chariot Wheel on Indian currency (Banknote World).
• Manifest Destiny (ANA Reading Room).
• All in the Family (ANA Reading Room).
• Alexander Graham Bell on a Scottish note (Banknote World).
• The 20 Lira Banknote Honoring Turkish Architect Mimar Kemaleddin (Banknote World).
• The Haʻamonga ʻa Maui Monument featured on Tongan banknote (Banknote World).

New Banknote Issues

• Paraguay to announce new banknote series (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ukraine's 2,000 hryvnia commemorative (Banknote News).
• A Samoan commemorative banknote honoring Queen Elizabeth II (Samoa Global News).
• Romanian commemorative note honors central banker (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Illinois Numismatic Association coin show, Countryside IL, September 17-19
  (ILNA).
• Virginia Numismatic Association coin show, Fredericksburg VA, September 17-19 (VNA).
• Calgary Fall 2026 Coin Show, Calgary AB, September 19-20 (Canadian Coin News).
• St. Pete-Clearwater Coin Show, Dunedin FL, September 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
• Franklin Coin Show, Franklin KY, September 18-19 (Coinzip).
• Carson CIty Mint Coin Show, Carson CIty NV, September 18-19 (Nevada State Museum).
• Camden Coin Club Show, Camden SC, September 18-19 (Camden Coin Club).
• Memphis Coin Club Show, Memphis TN, September 18-19 (Coinzip).
• Houston Summer Coin Show, Houston TX, September 18-19 (Coinshows-USA).
• Cowtown Coin Show, White Settlement TX, September 18-19 (J Fitz Shows).
• Front Range Coin Club Show, Longmont CO, September 19-20 (FRCC).
• Caveman Coin Club Show, Grants Pass OR, September 19-20 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 19

• Phoenix, AZ; Crown Point, IN; Clarkston, MI; Marysville, MI; Linwood, NJ; Indiana, PA
  Cookeville, TN

   September 20

• Van Nuys, CA; Cromwell, CT; Plantation, FL; Berwyn, IL; Pekin, IL; Rockford, IL; Kokomo, IN
  North Attleboro, MA; New Baltimore, MI; South St. Paul, MN; Omaha, NE; Holis, NH
  Cheektowaga, NY; Liverpool, NY; Hilliard, OH; Langhorne, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, September 16 (Stack's Bowers).
• A Special Offering of Large Size Currency, September 20 (HA).
• The Schwenk Family Collection of 100 Greatest American Currency Notes, September 20 (GreatCollections).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 20 (GreatCollections).
• Archives International Auction 117, Septmber 30 (AIA).
• The Mulberry Collection of English Banknotes, October 1 (Spink).
• Maastricht Showcase Auction - Session 1, October 1 (Stack's Bowers).
• Maastricht Showcase Auction - Session 2 - The Molshof Collection, October 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong World Paper Money Showcase Auction, October 3 (HA).
• A Special Offering of Large Size Currency Showcase Auction, October 4 (HA).
• CGB Live Auction, October 6 (CGB Numismatique).
• GACC Currency Signature Auction, October 6-9 (HA).
• Fall Obsolete Currency Auction, October 11 (HA)
• British and Irish Banknotes, October 14 (Noonans Mayfair).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• MIF 2026, Maastricht Netherlands, September 26-27 (MIF Events).
• Great American Coin & Collectibles Show, Rosemont IL, September 30-October 3 (GACC).
• PAN Fall Coin Show, Monroeville PA, October 22-24 (PAN).
• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Numismata Berlin, Berlin Germany, November 14-15 (Numismata).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• New invisible material could end counterfeit cash and passports (Geekspin).
• Romania gears up to print Euro banknotes (nformat).
• U.S. Currency Program now producing nonsequential $1, $2, $5, $20 straps (Fed 360).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• "Fake money ritual scam" in Nigeria (Nigerian Tribune).
• Big Italian mafia counterfeit bust (Canarian Weekly).
• "$240 thousand taped to legs and fake dollars" (Kazim).

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