The Republic of Abkhazia is using newly issued 25-aspar bank notes to commemorate the anniversary of a key battle that helped achieve independence from Georgia.

A Massachusetts Colonial note from 1776 that was printed by Paul Revere and an associate was top lot in the Kagin's sale May 20 of notes collected by John J. Ford.

Stack's Bowers Galleries offered over 800 lots in its MIF Maastricht Currency Fair auction held after the Netherlands event with a 1944 Palestine Currency Board note bringing top bid of $84,000.

The upgraded bank notes in five denominations released May 3 in South Africa retain many features of the previous issue but with a clearly different appearance and will co-circulate with the earlier issue.

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic marks 30 years of having a national currency by releasing new 200-, 500- and 1,000-som notes in its fifth series of currency.

The votes are in and the overwhelming favorite for 2022 Banknote of the Year for the International Bank Note Society is a 1,000-piso note from the Philippines Central Bank.

The first notes from the newest FRN series, Series 2021, carrying the signatures of two women for the first time in U.S. history, will soon circulate, with $1 and $5 notes sent to various Federal Reserve Banks.

Evidence of the turmoil of the Iranian currency system increases, as relentless inflation leads officials at the Central Bank of Iran to print 2-million-rial face value "checks."

Jan Olav Aamlid’s second volume in a planned five-part series on the specimen bank notes of Thailand directs attention to notes produced in England by De La Rue for what was then Siam.

Japan will have new high-security bank notes in three denominations for the first time in 20 years when the Bank of Japan releases the notes in 2024; they are currently on display in the bank's museums.

One of the legendary Series 1890 $100 Treasury notes commonly called the 'Watermelon Note' is a highlight of the Heritage CSNS Currency Signature Auction May 3 to 5.

Reconnaissance International sponsors regional high security printing conferences and awards banks for the "best" notes; its Europe, Middle East, and Africa region awards were named March 8.

Bank of England notes bearing the image of King Charles III are being printed but will not enter circulation until 2024, awaiting updates to money-handline machines and demand as old notes wear out.

Some surprising results were seen in a Heritage Auctions sale of world currency, with the lead attention going to a Series 1935 Canadian note that features a young Princess Elizabeth.

Director Len Olijar called 2022 an exciting year on many fronts in his introduction to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Annual Report, including changes at BEP facilities.

The third note in Jordan’s fifth currency issue, a 20-dinar note, was released March 21 by the Central Bank of Jordan and features a previous king, Jordan's largest mosque, an ostrich, a river landscape and two coins.

Kagin’s Auctions will be offering 58 plate notes from the standard colonial currency reference, The Early Paper Money of America, in two online-only auctions, all from the John J. Ford Collection.

An extremely rare £500 note from the Bank of England branch in Leeds dated 1936 was sold for £24,000 ($28,560) plus the 24% buyer’s fee by Noonans in its 1,111-lot March 1 bank note sale.

Crane Currency revealed a micro-optic security thread for bank notes on March 14 that it says brings high-contrast color movement to a new level and released a new house note with the feature.

The March 23 Heritage Signature Paper Money Auction will include the highest-graded note ever publicly auctioned from the country of Zanzibar and it is expected to be a highlight of the sale.