No new series of notes is expected until a new U.S. treasurer is appointed, and preparing and packaging products for collectors will remain on hiatus at BEP, as COVID still affects the workplace.

A full set of notes from the short-lived series of 1941 Panama Arias notes is featured in the Stack's Bowers Galleries Collectors Choice Online Auction June 23.

New standards on paper money were imposed in Thailand in 1902 and a new book has been created on the subject with author Jan Olav Wilborn Aamlid utilizing much of his collection as subject matter.

A pair of bank notes issued by the Qatar and Dubai Currency Board are expected to be top attractions in the World Banknotes Auction sale in late May, among the 556 lots up for bids.

The Central Bank of Barbados plans its first issue of a polymer note series, with six denominations set for Dec. 5 release in the same general themes as current notes, but dramatically transformed.

The 232-lots session of U.S. paper money errors was centerpiece of an early May Lyn Knight auction, with exceptional high grade examples and some very affordable pieces.

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates released two new polymer notes for circulation, adding these issues to a previously issued polymer commemorative note.

Recently issued Bank of Scotland polymer £100 notes were offered in a charity auction by Spink with the proceeds of the sale benefitting Mental Health UK and the Royal Free Hospital, London.

A new $100 note will be issued in Zimbabwe reflecting the highest denomination in use in the country that has been subject to hyperinflation and drawing concerns from citizens about its creation.

The government of Maryland expects the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to be operating at a new facility in Beltsville by the year 2027 to replace the existing Washington, D.C., location.

Dr. Flora Murray will be recognized for her benevolent work in establishing health care for children and others with a new £100 polymer note from the Bank of Scotland.

Digital U.S. currency is inevitable, but it does not necessarily mean that traditional forms of currency, coins and Federal Reserve notes, will disappear during the lifetimes of those reading this week’s issue.

Some might assume that when it comes to the subjects on bank notes, leaders of nations, whether royal or political, dominate as subjects. A recent survey suggests a surprising "occupation" leads the rankings.

The latest honors in bank note awards comes from the 18th High Security Printing Asia conference in Japan and the "Best New Banknote" went to Cambodia's 15,000-riel note.

Paper money dominated the attention as the presence of a counterfeit note in a counterfeit holder and circulation of a controversial note in the Philippines topped the attention.

H.R. 7231, legislation introduced in the House of Representatives, is seeking to direct the Treasury Department to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies, and to deploy the electronic dollars.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force and PNG are calling attention to recent findings of counterfeit notes contained in counterfeit pretended early generation PCGS Currency holders.

Stack's Bowers and Ponterio will offer close to 10,000 lots in a paper money auction in Hong Kong May 3 that includes an extremely rare bank note from one of China's provincial banks.

A 500-lot auction of bank notes that feature Queen Elizabeth II will be held in London by Dix Noonan Webb to coincide with the queen's Platinum Jubilee celebration that begins days after the sale.

A limited run of 20,000 "notes" with serial numbers but no country name or face value is being made by Czech printers to sell as a charity project to aid the embattled people of the Ukraine.