No official explanation is available, but a collector reports a distinct inking difference in the portrait of Thomas Jefferson on some Series 2013 $2 Federal Reserve notes and all Series 2017-A $2.

in England, the Leeds City Museum offers a Money Talks exhibit Feb. 11 to June 26 that includes an Operation Bernhard counterfeit bank note mimicking a note from the Bank of England’s Leeds branch.

A new series of maloti notes, physically smaller but bearing the same designs, with additional security features and an antimicrobial coating, was released in the African nation of Lesotho.

The online update section of the MRI Bankers’ Guide to Foreign Currency provided a link on Feb. 3 to an article titled “The Chinese, the Korean, the Turkish and Others: The 6 Fake Dollars You Have to Watch Out For.”

A proof specimen bank note never issued from Burlington, Vermont, is among the featured items in the next Archives International Auctions public auction on Feb. 23 in River Edge, New Jersey.

The $1,695,446 realized at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries NYINC Auction of World Paper Money on Jan. 15 completed the trilogy of rare world currency sales held in the first half of January.

The ratio of counterfeit euro notes to genuine notes continues to decrease, as banks detect and pull counterfeits from circulation. About two-thirds of the fakes are €20 and €50 notes.

Notes in the name of the First Trust Bank have been printed and distributed in Northern Ireland since the 1990s, but they will cease to be legal tender later this year.

In Heritage's world paper money sale from the company's Dallas headquarters, connected to the Florida United Numismatists convention, notes from India dominated the top results.

A new denomination, a $2,000 polymer note, originally planned for last year to commemorate Guyana's 55th anniversary, goes into circulation in February.

The European Central Bank is looking for "great, true European" subjects for a redesign of the six euro note denominations, and the multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci is considered an "obvious" possibility.

The lowest value and most heavily used note in Thailand is the 20-baht note, which will begin being issued in polymer in March to make the notes cleaner and more durable.

Notes from Zanzibar have a tendency to perform well when offered in auction and examples from the Spink sale in connection with NYINC did not disappoint, with several realizing six figures.

With an emphasis on diversity, an advisory council narrowed the choices among potential subjects for Canada's next $5 note to eight candidates, from which the minister of finance will chose one.

More than 3,000 pieces of deaccessioned Confederate currency, all issued on Feb. 17, 1864, will be sold by the South Carolina Archives & History Center on the anniversary of issue.

A new 200-quetzal note issued in Guatemala, using cotton fiber, new security devices and a different method of printing, joins circulation with the previous issue of the country's highest value note.

Albania began releasing a planned series of six new polymer notes in September of 2019 and the latest two releases, the 500-lek and 2,000-lek notes, issued Jan. 17, complete the series.

Two different organizations with differing award criteria have announced their 2021 note nominees, and two of the year's notes are up for potential honors from both organizations.

A new polymer 20-ouguiya note into circulation during November by the African nation of Mauritania with the new note created by the Canadian Banknote Co.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service is warning that counterfeit U.S. $50 bills are believed to be circulating throughout the region ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.