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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Central Bank of Cuba is commemorating the 500th anniversary of the city of Havana with a 2019 500-peso commemorative bank note.

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."

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

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.

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.

Women are underrepresented on the world’s paper money, one firm believes, and it commissioned bank note designs honoring women from around the globe.

Professional Coin Grading Service is returning to the field of grading United States paper money with the scheduled January launch of PCGS Banknote.

A pair of recent stories call into question the nearly daily pronouncements by experts that the end of cash is near.

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.

The U.S. Mint’s packaging problems for joint 2019 numismatic products with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing continue.

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.

A century ago, collectors were worried about the seizure of obsolete bank notes and the possibility that their collections were at risk of confiscation.

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.

Norges Bank will complete its new eighth series of bank notes when it releases the 1,000-krone note in Bergen on Nov. 14.

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.