A charity auction for the Bank of England and a sale in Hong Kong made up a busy week for Spink as beneficiaries realized big gains and collectors snagged quality notes.

After many delays, including COVID-19, the Economic Community of West African States announces its new single currency, the “eco,” will launch in 2027, with the 15 member nations finalizing timelines.

In a tale of two countries, Venezuela and Zimbabwe are taking different approaches in their common endeavor to combat the encroachment of inflation on their respective nations.

The French central bank, producer of 22% of the euro area's notes and 20-some other nations' notes, contracted with Portal Papers for multi-layer note technology EverFit to improve durability.

The Royal Bank of Scotland's first polymer £50 note, the fourth note in its “Fabric of Nature” series, has on its face Flora Stevenson,19th century literacy and education advocate for women and children.

A charity auction in London that featured frenzied bidding resulted in over £250,000 in funds being raised to benefit a charity designated by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Chinese-Malaysian contemporary artist Red Hong Yi, known as Red, has expressed her views of the current effects on traditional currency by creating her own notes as a form of parody.

A Smithsonian website article reminds that putting Harriet Tubman's image on the $20 note, an effort to reflect more of America's story, is a concept the Educational Series of 1896 attempted, too.

The Bank of England reports circulation of its new £50 note completes the conversion to polymer notes, while the Bank of Spain re-extended a deadline to exchange pre-euro currency.

Planned bicentennial circulation of a 200-lempira note in Honduras, a new denomination, ellicits concerns that it will cause higher prices and that the number to be printed is too small.

While incidents of counterfeiting for most denominations are reported down, the Reserve Bank of India finds an increase in fakes of its new 500-rupee notes turning up in circulation.

New 5-lari and 20-lari note issues from the National Bank of Georgia offer designs similar to previous issues, but with some background revision. The new notes are being released July 2.

The Bank of Albania issued two more notes in its new six-note polymer lek series, with two more to come, themed with portraits of notable national figures and moments in Albanian history.

Described as having a "highly sophisticated alignment and shaping of micro mirrors," a new customizable security thread for paper-based substrates is offered by Giesecke+Devrient.

A 1927 memo from his staff recommended all of the portraits that Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon chose for the new small-size notes issued in 1929, although he switched a couple.

Uzbekistan has finished the project of a new note series with the 2,000- and 20,000-som notes that feature the "Great Silk Road" and some of the country's ancient historical attractions.

A Washington newspaper calls out the continuing delay in development for release of a re-designed $20 Federal Reserve note to feature Harriet Tubman in place of the current Andrew Jackson image.

In less than a year, several denominations of paper bank notes in Trinidad and Tobago will be demonetized because the changeover to polymer notes for those denominations is completed.

A final environmental impact statement for a planned new BEP currency production facility in suburban Maryland is in the hands of the Treasury, which must now decide whether to move ahead.

A Bank of England £5 bank note originally presented to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957, bearing the low serial number A01 000003, was the top selling note in a May Dix Noonan Webb auction.