A rare and possibly unique 1948 $500 specimen note for the Mercantile Bank of India in Hong Kong sold for $18,270, including the buyer’s fee, in Hong Kong.

A 50-cent obsolete remainder note with a connection to the 1968 novel True Grit by Charles Portis, sold for $54 in an online Heritage auction.

A photo of a beach towel — featuring the design of a $100 Federal Reserve note — on fire is being offered in a photography auction that will end Feb. 4, 2015.

The Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco will reopen as soon as possible following a Jan. 27 robbery of gold nuggets.

Former Coin World Editor Margo Russell, 95, died Jan. 26 in Sidney, Ohio.

The design on the first of three intaglio prints from the BEP focuses on the 100th anniversary of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915.

Members of the International Bank Note Society can submit nominations for the society's annual Banknote of the Year contest.

Spink’s Jan. 30 auction in Lugano, Switzerland, will offer stock certificates, many with beautiful vignettes.

J.H. Cline, of Palm Harbor, Fla., died Jan. 8, 2015, from injuries suffered in an accident.

New 200-, 500- and 1,000-pesos notes to begin to circulate in Cuba in February. Current largest notes worth about $4 U.S., too small for increased trade levels.