The Battle of Mactan between Philippine natives and the crew of Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, in which Magellan was killed, is commemorated on a new 5,000-piso note featuring Lapu-Lapu.

The $20 note adorned with a banana sticker set a new auction price record for a paper money error, realizing $396,000 against an estimated range of $25,000 to $50,000.

The plan to bring Harriet Tubman to the $20 note is back on track as the Treasury under new leadership resurrects the idea, with the note still a few years from reality.

Even though it's rare in daily transactions, the Swiss 1,000-franc note is in demand from customers wanting to stash their savings outside of banks, where rather than getting interest, a fee is charged.

The canceled New York International Numismatic Convention led auction companies to resort to online bidding and two of the planned sales happened in Great Britain and California with success.

A Spink auction on behalf of the Bank of England raised $330,000 for donation to two charities, Pancreatic Cancer UK and YoungMinds, with a sheet of 45 £20 notes drawing the highest bid, £15,000.

A group monitoring organized crime in Latin America, Insight Crime says currency counterfeiting activity is increasing in Brazil, where more fake money was seized by July 2020 than in all of 2019.

To commemorate the 25th year of neutrality, Turkmenistan's Central Bank offers new bank notes in six different denominations featuring a multi-colored logo to mark the occasion.

The Bank of Cabo Verde issued its new 200-escudo note in a cotton fiber material, replacing the only polymer denomination, though the two will appear similar and co-circulate.

A Brooklyn-based website recently brought attention to a satirical note from the Panic of 1837 that lampooned Andrew Jackson for his role in the Panic, a seven-year recession in the United States.

In a fruitful trip to an ATM, an Ohio student discovered an error note with a banana sticker overprinted, and after its 15-year absence from the market, Heritage Auctions offers the note Jan. 22.

Smart bank notes could replace traditional notes as an interim currency, as digital currency builds momentum toward official acceptability.

Germany will be issuing new €20 notes in the Europa Series into circulation with a varnish coating, giving them a smoother feel and increased durability.

A Barcelona-area teen is arrested by the Spanish National Police in a case involving high-quality counterfeit euro notes being sold in Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Zimbabwe government officials assure their citizenry and businesses that damaged, worn out, but trusted, U.S. dollars are again ok to use in circulation, as long as a note is more than half there.

The unveiling date for the newest issue in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Lucky Money Series has fallen victim to COVID-19 problems, postponed to possibly after the Chinese New Year.

De La Rue introduces a new class of currency security, Nexus, involving a wide, colorful stripe embedded in a note's substrate, which appears in its first use on just-issued notes from Qatar Central Bank.

The first offering from World Banknote Auctions will include a £10 note from Bermuda dated July 28, 1964, and graded Choice Uncirculated by Paper Money Guaranty among its 400 lots.

Bundesbank is using a new digital recovery system ePuzzler to assist in piecing together damaged euro and Deutsche notes submitted for replacement; it works for other shredded documents too.

Thailand social media reflects multiple complaints about a confusing similarity in coloring between the brown 1,000-baht note and a recently issued commemorative gold-colored 100-baht note.