A Canadian woman will be featured on the first bank note of the country’s next paper currency series in 2018. By the time of the April 15 deadline, 26,000 submissions had been made to the Bank of Canada website set up for nominations.
The U.S. Army general that brought victory to the nation during the American Civil War was later elected as the nation's 18th president. Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, was born April 27, 1822. He can be seen on the $50 Federal Reserve note, the second highest circulating paper money denomination in the United States today.
The first design in Switzerland’s new bank note series, the 50-franc note, entered circulation on April 12. The unifying theme of the new six-note series is “the many facets of Switzerland.” A hand and a globe will appear as central elements of each note. The 50-franc note focuses on the wealth of experiences that Switzerland offers, expressed by the wind, the...
New features include a tactile one to help the vision impaired, and security enhancements including a distinctive top to bottom window and the Omron rings (a pattern of small circles, usually yellow in color).
The annual Netherlands show is now in its 30th year and has grown to the extent that, since there is no longer a facility large enough to hold a bourse in Maastricht itself, it has relocated six miles away to the municipality of Valkenburg.
The long neglected recognition on paper currency of the role of women in U.S. history was rectified with a vengeance by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on April 20 when he announced that future $5, $10 and $20 notes will all prominently feature women in their design. The decision ushers in the most radical transformation of American paper money since it was changed...
The U.S. Treasury announced Wednesday that Harriet Tubman will indeed replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 Federal Reserve note. The Underground Railroad pioneer was the leading vote-getter in a 2015 poll held by the Women on 20s campaign, which made headlines last year as it advocated for the replacement of Jackson with a woman.
Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father getting lots of attention in popular culture these days, may be staying on the $10 Federal Reserve note after all. CNN is quoting a "senior government source" as saying that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the $20 Federal Reserve note in the future with that of a woman, a move that...
Politician, author, statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor, printer and bon vivant Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. The famous American familiar as the face of the United States’ largest denomination bill currently in production, the $100 note, left a large legacy on Colonial U.S. paper money. Franklin not only printed notes for several Colonies throughout the...
A branch of paper collecting often overlooked given the emphasis on paper currency is the related field of stocks and bonds, or scripophily. Hoping to change that, a new nonprofit organization, the American Stock and Bond Collectors Association, devoted to the interests of collecting old stock certificates and bonds, has been founded.
