Last year's price of $324,201 for an old book of Waterlow & Sons specimen bank notes proved a value, as the first few notes sold at a Spink NYINC auction.

The Central Bank of Bolivia placed a new 100-bolivar note (the U.S. equivalent of about $14.50) into circulation on Jan. 15.

Jan. 16, the Federal Reserve announced launch of its first interactive public smartphone and tablet application for schoolchildren.

Of the top 35 Heritage Auctions results in Orlando, 20 were from Canada, as were eight of the top 21 results in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries New York auctions.

$13,200 was a magic price for several bank notes exceeding pre-sale estimates at the Jan. 11 Stack’s Bowers Galleries world paper currency auction in New York.

The counterfeiting of the Mauritius 2,000-rupee note is apparently so widespread that the notes are being replaced with a new note.

The Indian currency mess continues to get messier, with rumors that the government was going to ban its highest denomination, the 2,000-rupee note.

The Central Bank of Armenia released the last three of the six denominations in its new family of notes on Dec. 25 — the 1,000-, 2,000-, and 5,000-dram notes.

Seventeen of the 19 countries using the euro stopped issuing the €500 denomination as of Jan. 27, with the remaining nations to cease printing them in April.

Advocacy groups are calling for a change in England’s next £50 note. Instead of a scientist, some want an endangered species; others, an ethnic minority.

The National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative noncirculating 100-hryvnia bank note on Dec. 17 that is decidedly retro in appearance.

Concrete mixed by a Salt Lake City firm might include an unusual substance: ash that was once shredded Federal Reserve notes.