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.

As part of our continued conversation with our readers, we like to ask our Facebook fans to share about the numismatic acquisitions they've made recently.

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.

MintProducts.com has formed an auction division for coins, exonumia and more, with the first auction to open in March.

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.

A collection of occupation notes would make a new and different avenue to pursue for the adventuresome collector.

As a collector of obsolete notes Peter Mayer had many friends in the collecting community. He made the most of those relationships to learn.

In October 2015, Swedish citizens will begin finding the first four of six denominations of redesigned bank notes in circulation.

Learning as much about obsolete notes as possible is among the steps needed to expand a collection.

One collector who could serve as a mentor to others was the late Peter Mayer, who is recognized as one of the hobby’s leading specialists in obsolete notes.

The promotional emphasis is on large-size notes in nearly every auction of U.S. paper money but these rarely form the bulk of the sale’s contents.

a horribly put-together fake £20 note that can be seen in the tweet above was presented to a bar in Manchester, England.

Newly released Trinidad and Tobago $50 polymer notes celebrate the “golden” anniversary of the islands’ central bank.

A collection of Canadian bank notes will be offered Feb. 14, 2015, in the Canadian Legacy Auction Sale II to be conducted at the Downtown Toronto Hilton Hotel.

Obsolete notes have always been a fertile field for people who enjoy collecting topically. Some look for exotic subject matter.

April 1, 2015, is the deadline to apply to be a part of the annual Speakers Series at the June 18 to 21, 2015, International Paper Money Show in Memphis, Tenn.

Paper money will be the focus of a daylong seminar in Milwaukee on May 23, 2015. Four numismatic clubs will host the event.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is now accepting applications from blind or visually impaired individuals who wish to receive a free currency reader.

U.S. Treasurer Rosa “Rosie” Gumataotao Rios will participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony at the FUN show and later autograph notes and other items.

The raised dots of Braille help blind and visually-impaired individuals “read” books, documents, and soon, banknotes issued by the United Arab Emirates.

A National Bank of Cuba 1-peso specimen note will be offered in the Jan. 12 auction to be conducted by Stack’s Bowers Galleries at NYINC.

Kwanza-denominated notes, first issued in 1999 by the National Reserve Bank of Angola, have stopped being accepted as a method of payment.

A key-date 1896-S Barber quarter dollar is among 2,834 lots of United States coins, tokens, medals and paper money to be offered Jan. 25 to 27 in Los Angeles.