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Dec 30, 2019, 14:00 PM
Trinidad and Tobago convert $100 note to polymer
Trinidad and Tobago continues its newest bank note series with a $100 note made of polymer and featuring new technology. -
Dec 29, 2019, 15:00 PM
Bank of Ghana introduces two new note denominations
The Bank of Ghana introduced 100- and 200-cedi bank notes, worth $18 and $36, on Dec. 2, continuing a series that began with smaller denominations. -
Dec 27, 2019, 16:02 PM
Library of Congress exhibit explores early American notes
An exhibit at the Library of Congress explores aspects of early American paper money, including the development of an anti-counterfeiting printing technique developed by Benjamin Franklin. -
Dec 16, 2019, 13:30 PM
Taiwan seizes millions in bogus older-generation $100 FRNs
Longstanding U.S. policy to not demonetize its federal paper currency is both a stabilizing force and a temptation to counterfeiters, who produce high quality fakes of the $100 FRN type issued from 1996 to 2013, before more high-tech counterfeit deterrents were added. -
Dec 15, 2019, 15:30 PM
Romania celebrates reunion centennial on 100-lei bank note
A polymer commemorative bank note with a face value of 100 lei ($23.14) was released by the Central Bank of Romania on Dec. 1, targeted at collectors and carrying a premium of 50 percent over face value. -
Dec 11, 2019, 14:00 PM
Transition from Series 2017 to 2017A continues at BEP
The BEP in its final production reports for Fiscal Year 2019 document the transition from Series 2017 Federal Reserve notes to Series 2017A notes, including $2 notes in the newer series. -
Dec 9, 2019, 17:00 PM
Ukraine expands series of bank notes with new denominations
The National Bank of Ukraine is completing the five-year upgrading of its currency system with the scheduled release of a new 50-hryvnia note on Dec. 20 and a 200-hryvnia bill on Feb. 25. -
Dec 3, 2019, 13:00 PM
BEP’s Year of the Rat set available Dec. 11
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing will release the Year of the Rat 2020 set in its Lucky Money Lunar Calendar product line at noon on Dec. 11. -
Dec 1, 2019, 16:30 PM
Cuba releases bank note celebrating founding of Havana
The Central Bank of Cuba is commemorating the 500th anniversary of the city of Havana with a 2019 500-peso commemorative bank note. -
Nov 27, 2019, 15:45 PM
Inside Coin World: Inside Warren Buffet’s wallet
Contents of Warren Buffett’s wallet, new discoveries of Washington quarter dollar doubled dies, and the history of America’s earliest medals for military valor are among topics found only in the digital and print editions of the Dec. 16 "Coin World." -
Nov 25, 2019, 20:00 PM
Bank of Scotland reveals two new £20 bank notes
The Bank of Scotland has unveiled the designs of two polymer £20 notes, including this regular issue and a commemorative version, to be issued early in 2020 -
Nov 25, 2019, 15:00 PM
Additional details released on PCGS Banknote currency grading launch
PCGS Banknote, which will begin accepting submissions of U.S. paper money for authentication, grading and encapsulation starting Jan. 2, has released new details about the services it will offer. -
Nov 22, 2019, 14:30 PM
Inside Coin World: Overprinting missing on $1 note
Columns in the latest issue of "Coin World" focus on a number of themes, including a reader's discovery of an error note, a columnist's discovery of railway tokens in coin rolls, and a cast counterfeit of a key date coin. -
Nov 18, 2019, 13:30 PM
Firm commissions bank note designs featuring women
Women are underrepresented on the world’s paper money, one firm believes, and it commissioned bank note designs honoring women from around the globe. -
Nov 11, 2019, 14:04 PM
PCGS getting back into grading U.S. paper money with PCGS Banknote
Professional Coin Grading Service is returning to the field of grading United States paper money with the scheduled January launch of PCGS Banknote. -
Nov 10, 2019, 14:30 PM
Cash is not on the way out, several recent studies show
A pair of recent stories call into question the nearly daily pronouncements by experts that the end of cash is near. -
Nov 9, 2019, 13:59 PM
AIA auction offers essay proofs, Mormon note
A broad array of United States, Chinese and worldwide bank notes, stock and bond certificates and security printing ephemera are offered in the public auction being conducted by Archives International Auctions Nov. 21. -
Nov 8, 2019, 16:25 PM
2019 Youth Coin and Currency set experiences packaging issues
The U.S. Mint’s packaging problems for joint 2019 numismatic products with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing continue. -
Nov 4, 2019, 13:30 PM
Two rare former Anderson notes in Stack’s Bowers Baltimore auction
Exceptionally rare notes, an 1863 legal tender $50 note and an 1865 $500 interest-baring note, will be auctioned in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries U.S. currency auction in Baltimore Nov. 14. -
Nov 4, 2019, 12:00 PM
Monday Morning Brief: What were collectors scared of in 1919?
A century ago, collectors were worried about the seizure of obsolete bank notes and the possibility that their collections were at risk of confiscation. -
Nov 2, 2019, 16:00 PM
Bulgarian National Bank to release new 50-lev bank note
Bulgaria is issuing a new 50-lev note that will have features to help visually impaired people conduct transactions and a portrait of the writer Slaveykov. -
Oct 28, 2019, 13:00 PM
Norway issuing new 1,000-krone note to complete series
Norges Bank will complete its new eighth series of bank notes when it releases the 1,000-krone note in Bergen on Nov. 14. -
Oct 26, 2019, 15:00 PM
Canadian firm unveils authentication product
An anti-counterfeiting and currency authentication product called KolourDepth that uses nano-scale devices and involves 3D, color, and movement was introduced Oct. 1 in Vancouver by Nanotech Security Corp. -
Oct 26, 2019, 13:30 PM
BEP releases new style monthly production reports for early 2019
Federal Reserve note production reports for the period of February through April 2019 are released in a new format after a long absence. -
Oct 22, 2019, 12:34 PM
Rare 1854 St. Catharines $5 note surfaces in New York
A rare District Bank of Niagara note was uncovered at a flea market in upstate New York. Certified by PMG, the note is "raised," meaning it had its denomination physically modified.