News & Notes Volume XII, No. 15

September 22, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

  A Selection of Posts on Money, Banking, & Finance from The Conversation

• Proceeds of Crime: How polymer banknotes were invented. From 2014.
• Mormons and money: An unorthodox and messy history of church finances. From 2019.
• Kate Sheppard and the making of a New Zealand feminist icon. From 2021.
• Almost 1 in 6 of the world’s banknotes feature wildlife – and they’re not always the creatures you’d expect. From 2024.
• Ben Franklin's anti‑counterfeiting techniques and materials innovations. From 2026.
• Churchill and British national identity. From 2026.

Currency Coming and Going

• Queen Elizabeth will soon lose her legal tender status in Fiji (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• A gallery of figures who never appeared on French banknotes (The Conversation, in French).
• Poisoned banknote legends in Russia (nemoskva.net).
• Voting has closed for new euro banknote designs (Euractiv).
• Polish PM encourages voting for Polish Nobel laureate in ECB banknote survey (Polskie Radio).
• Greeks having their say in new euro banknote design (ekathimerini).
• Afghanistan's exchange process for worn banknotes (Atlas Press).
• The Promise to Pay: What Backs Banknotes? (Bank of England).
• The Debt Behind the Money in Your Wallet (GoldSeek).
• Pakistan rejects reports of Rs10 banknote withdrawal (Abb Takk).
• A referee's decision provokes banknote mockery (Yahoo Sports).
• What Cuban banknotes are worth (CiberCuba).
• Why a French monument appears on a Canadian banknote (Yahoo News, in French).
• Sudan's currency market disruptions (Sudan Tribune).
• Dutch Influence on London Finance (The Tontine Coffee-House).
• What economic history says about stablecoins and the U.S. dollar (NBER). Click through to pdf link.

The Business of Collecting

• A New Numismatic Portal at the Libraries (Washington University).
• Czechia's 5,000 koruna commemorative gets a bump (Around Prague).
• An Unusual Progressive Proof from Jamaica (Stack's Bowers).
• Don’t Overlook Bank-Related Ephemera! (Stack's Bowers).
• Selections from Spink's auction of the Mulberry Collection (PMG).
• Southeast Asia offerings from the upcoming Trigometric auction (PMG).
• 1902, A Good Year at Auctions (Numismatic News).
• 1899 $5 Silver Certificate: The Real Story of Running Antelope (Coinweek).
• The $5,000 Bill that Nearly Vanished (Coinweek).
• Rare Greek Notes offered by A. Karamitsos (PMG).
• The Austrian 5 schilling note of 1945 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Remembering the Battle of Jahra (Banknote World).
• The Last Royal Palace of the Last Burmese Monarchy (Banknote World).
• Commemorating 50 years of São Tomé and Príncipe's independence (Banknote World).
• The ongoing auctions of the Schwenk Family Collection (PMG).
• BOOK: German Banknotes, 24th ed (E-Sylum).

New Banknote Issues

• Solomon Islands plans for an updated $100 note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Nepal Rastra Bank Introduces New 50 Rupee Banknote (Hamro Patro).
• Cuba introduces 10,000 and 20,000 peso notes (Cuba Headlines).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Sacramento Valley Coin Show, Sacremento CA, September 24-26 (SVCC).
• The Vicksburg Coin Show, Vicksburg MS, September 25-26 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Harrisburg Coin Show, Harrisburg PA, September 25-26 (Harrisburg Coin Club).
• The Waco Coin Club Show, Bellmead TX, September 25-26 (Coinshows-USA).
• The Fort Walton Beach Coin Show, Fort Walton FL, September 26-27 (Coinshows-USA).

                    (Always call ahead to confirm)

      September 26

• Trussville, AL; Naugatuck, CT; Okahumpka, FL; Kokomo, IN; Galena, KS; St. Charles, MO
  Bath, NY; Guelph, ON; Lynchburg, VA

   September 27

• San Fernando, CA; Greenacres, FL; Princeton, IL; Livonia, MI; Winona, MN; Saint John, NB
  Cranbury, NJ; Batavia, NY; Plainview, NY; Cinti, OH; Westlake, OH; Trevose, PA

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, September 27 (GreatCollections).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, September 27 (GreatCollections).
• Archives International Auction 117, September 30 (AIA).
• The Jersey Collection, Part II, September 30 (Spink).
• The Mohamed Tawfik Collection of Middle Eastern Banknotes, September 30 (Spink).
• 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).
• The Semper Fi Collection of Iowa National Bank Notes, October 4 (GreatCollections).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 4 (GreatCollections).
• CGB Live Auction, October 6 (CGB Numismatique).
• GACC Currency Signature Auction, October 6-9 (HA).
• Fall Obsolete Currency Auction, October 11 (HA)
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 11 (GreatCollections)
• British and Irish Banknotes, October 14 (Noonans Mayfair).
• Hong Kong, Macau, World Banknotes, October 14 (Spink).
• World Paper Money Signature Auction, October 14-15 (HA).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 18 (GreatCollections).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session A, October 22 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session B, October 23 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session C, October 24 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session D, October 24 (Stack's Bowers).
• Hong Kong Showcase Auction, Session E, October 25 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Schwenk Family Collection, October 25 (GreatCollections).

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

• Prospects for Crane NXT (StockStory).
• Oberthur Fiduciare and banknote security technology (Global Banking and Finance Review).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Samoa warns of counterfeit 100 tala notes in circulation (Samoa Global News).
• Ghana crackdown on counterfeiting operations (GhanaWeb).

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