News & Notes Volume XII, No. 20

October 27, 2026

 From the Internet Bookshelf

 Some UNESCO World Heritage Sites on Banknotes

• The Uzbekistan Som Banknotes Dedicated to the Sherdar Madrasa UNESCO World Heritage Landmark (Banknote World). From 2026.
• Note of the Month: Scottish 20 Pounds (PMG). From 2025.
• UNESCO sites on Indian currency (Times of India). From 2025.
• Six UNESCO monuments on Indian rupee notes (Times of India). From 2025.
• Great Zimbabwe: From an Ancient Civilization to Modern Banknotes & Coins (Banknote World). From 2024.
• Currency notes depicting UNESCO heritage sites of G20 countries put on display (The Print). From 2023.
• Where Monarchs Reign Supreme (IMF). Pdf at link. From 2022.
• Collection Inspiration: Cultural World Heritage Sites in Danger (PMG). From 2021.

Currency Coming and Going

• Will Uzbekistan produce a milllion-soum note? (Zamon).
• Bangladesh's future banknotes? (The Daily Campus).
• Currency Splits Sudan Politically (Numismatic News).
• Silvio Gesell's Free Economy teachings (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• A Sudanese view of currency sovereignty (SudanHorizon).
• Monetary Lessons from the Spanish Scholastics (Medium).
• Anglo-French American Loan of 1915 (The Tontine Coffee-House).

The Business of Collecting

• How Banknotes Express National Culture and Visual Identity (The Collector).
• Auction: A “Most-Wanted” Note at Heritage (Numismatic News).
• BEP offers uncut currency sheets with Trump signature (CoinNews).
• Newly discovered Molsons $5 bank note is up for auction (Canadian Coin News).
• Stack's to offer rare Bahamas note at NYINC auction (Stack's Bowers).
• Collection Inspiration: Mythical Creatures (PMG).
• Highlights of Heritage's Fady Nassif sale (HA).
• Peru honors medical doctor & statesman Hipólito Unanue (Banknote World).
• Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II on Indonesia's 10,000 rupiah note (Banknote World).
• Heritage offers British colonial notes from the Peh Family Collection (PMG).
• PMG Note of the Month: Spanish 500 Pesetas (PMG).
• BOOK: Banknotes of the Independent State of Croatia (E-Sylum, book in Croatian).

New Banknote Issues

• Somalia Plans First Currency in 35 Years (Numismatic News).
• Kyrgyzstan issues updated 20 and 50 som notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Cuba's new 20,000 peso note (Banknote News).
• Samoa's Queen Elizabeth II commemorative (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Local Coin/Numismatic Shows Happening this Week

     Multi-Day Shows​

• Vegas National Coin Show, Las Vegas NV, October 29-31 (CK Shows).
• South Carolina Numismatic Association Show, Greenville SC, October 29-31 (SCNA).
• Portland Coin Show, Portland OR, October 30-November 1 (Willamette Coin Club).
• Rochester Numismatic Association Coin Show, Rochester NY, October 31-November 1 (RNA).
• Hidalgo Coin Club Show, McAllen TX, October 31-November 1 (Coinshows-USA).

      October 31

• Ft. Myers, FL; Westminster, MD; Kalamazoo, MI; Marietta, OH; 

      November 1

• Anaheim, CA; Apopka, FL; Hollywood, FL; Orland Park, IL; Urbana, IL; Decatur, IN; Dedham, MA
  Wyandotte, MI; Maple Grove, MN; Independence, MO; Parsippany, NJ; Albany, NY; Fairview Park, OH
  Scarborough, ON; Green Bay, WI

Upcoming Online Currency Auctions

• Crown Currency Live Auction 60, October 27 (Crown Currency).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, Session A, October 29 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Copenhagen Sale, Session B, October 30 (Stack's Bowers).
• Mavin International Auction 69B, October 30 (Mavin).
• Heritage Fractional Currency Showcase Auction, November 1 (HA).
• World Premier Collectors Choice, November 2 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Collectors Choice Auction, November 4 (Stack's Bowers).
• The Dahlia Collection of U.S. Paper Money, November 8 (GreatCollections).
• Heritage Fall Colonial Currency Showcase Auction, November 15 (HA).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 3, November 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 5, November 18 (Stack's Bowers).
• Stack's Showcase Auction, Session 7, November 19 (Stack's Bowers).
• Emporium Hamburg Auction 113, November 27 (Emporium Hamburg).
• Heritage HKINF World Paper Money Signature Auction, December 5-6 (HA).

Major Coin and Currency Shows

• Baltimore Fall Expo, Baltimore MD, November 12-13 (Whitman Expos).
• Numismata Berlin, Berlin Germany, November 14-15 (Numismata).
• FUN Show, Orlando FL, January 7-10, 1927 (Coinshows-UA).
• New York International Coin Convention, NYC, January 15-17, 2027 (NYINC).

Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

Upcoming Industry Conferences

• 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

• Laos Bans Money Bouquets, Crafts Made From Kip Banknotes (Laotian Times).
• European Parliament calls for greater anti-counterfeiting efforts (Democrata).
• Fake cash in Yucatan (Yucatan Magazine).
• Counterfeit Detection: Iraqi 1931 (1935) 1/4 dinar (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