The IBNS Banknote of the Year award is an initiative of the International Bank Note Society to recognize an exceptional bank note issued each year.

A report credits the use of polymer in Canada’s new bank notes starting four years ago with a 74 percent drop in the number of fakes passed in 2015.

The effort to place a woman on U.S. paper currency was brought back into the spotlight Jan. 21 with the introduction of Senate Resolution 348.

The Central Bank of Argentina announced on Jan. 15 that it will soon release an entirely new currency series, including high-denomination issues.

With the Bank of England scheduled to issue a new £20 note by 2020, a movement is afoot to place a portrait of David Bowie on the new note.

So few of them, each a distinct individual but united as a sisterhood — the sisterhood of women whose portraits have been depicted on U.S. paper money.

A previously unknown unique signed and issued $500 Treasury note of Jan. 22, 1847, sold for $199,750 at the Heritage auction on Jan. 8 in Tampa.

Ukraine's new 500-hryvnia note is predominantly beige in color and similar in size to its predecessor.

A small New York printer, Gavit & Co., of Albany, N.Y., was absorbed by the larger American Bank Note Company.

Among the most interesting parts of the Feb. 9 St. James’s Auctions sale in London is an offering of more than 2,000 bank notes from German East Africa.