A commemorative $70 bank note has been issued to honor the one-year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II with the denomination reflective of the Platinum Jubilee.

The retirement of Director Len Olijar has led to a vacancy in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that is being filled temporarily by acting director Charlene E. Williams.

The Central Bank of Lesotho has only authorized commemorative coins but the agency has made an exception with a commemorative bank note in honor of the nation's king.

A very rare Bank of England £5 note, issued in Leeds in 1900, signed by Horace G. Bowen, the bank's chief cashier from 1893 to 1902, is offered Oct. 12 in a Noonans British and Irish bank notes sale.

Three Colonial notes in Kagin’s Auctions’ Sept. 23 online sale of notes from the legendary collection of John J. Ford Jr. surged past $30,000. All three are plate notes in Eric Newman’s "The Early Paper Money of America."

The deadline for redeeming paper £50 and £100 notes in Northern Ireland passed, but its banks banks will continue to accept them, while issuing new, more durable, harder to counterfeit polymer notes.

A mid-September paper money auction by Heritage reflects the generally increasing interest in high denomination notes, as prices realized rose well above previous benchmarks.

MDC Monaco is holding a 366-lot auction of world paper money on Oct.13 that will feature what the firm describes as “an exceptional Greek banknotes collection, and many Top Pop banknotes.”

Europol’s “European Financial and Economic Crime Threat Assessment 2023” covered counterfeiting among other financial crimes and described successful efforts to nab one prolific criminal enterprise.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers called on expert help to relocate a hive of nearly 30,000 honeybees discovered as workers clear the site for the new BEP facility, which is to begin construction in 2024.