Heritage Auctions announced two developments on the paper money front at the end of January.

Venezuela’s notes become worthless almost upon entering circulation. But they aren't worthless to artists, who use the notes as raw material for their art.

First Trust Bank in Northern Ireland will cease issuing notes, and the notes lose legal currency status June 30, 2022, but are redeemable until 2024.

PCGS Currency abruptly ceased operations in January with its former president forming a new entity, Legacy Currency Grading.

A CBC news report stated that a new breed of counterfeit currency was circulating in Alberta, and that users needed to be careful with $50 and $100 bills.

Organizers of the International Paper Money Show are inviting talks on topics involving fiscal paper or with a tie-in to it.

A new premium currency product from the BEP, the America’s Founding Fathers 2019 Currency set, will go on sale for $21.95 at noon Eastern Time on Feb. 19.

Paper Money Guaranty says that it recently authenticated and graded as Uncirculated 62 an unlisted 1975 People’s Republic of China 2-yuan proof note.

The British Museum’s staid reputation changed with the revelation that included in its collections is a fake £10 note from the artist Banksy.

The BEP has posted a request for information, “Sources Sought for Hidden Machine Readable Security,” on the government website FedBizOpps.gov.

The Bahamas released the fourth member of its new bank note family, the CRISP Evolution half dollar note, on Jan. 24.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries fourth auction of remarkable collection will feature nine 1869 legal tender notes Feb. 28.

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank decided in February 2018 to change the composition of its currency from paper to polymer.

Despite protests over the inclusion of tallow in its polymer bank notes, the Bank of England decided in 2017 that it would not change the material.