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.

A 200-riyal note will be included in the latest release of bank notes in Qatar and the new notes will replace the current series, which can be converted for the next three months.

The Central Bank of Nigeria is the target of a human rights lawyer suing for removal of the Arabic script for the Hausa language identity of denominations on several older notes in circulation.

A commemorative bank note with no assigned value will be used to pay honor to the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, who travelled to space aboard the U.S. space shuttle Columbia.

A new version of Lebanon’s 100,000-pound bank note is in circulation, commemorating the 2020 centennial of the establishment of Greater Lebanon and featuring a new level of security features.

A Chicago-based architectural firm in joint venture with the Capital Currency Team will design, create a master plan and oversee engineering operations for a new BEP facility in Maryland.

The next commemorative note issued by the Czech National Bank will arrive in 2022 and honor another Czech economist on a 100-korun note.

Peruvian counterfeiters of U.S. currency are caught yet again, as authorities arrest members of a specialist gang and confiscate over $6 million in phony Federal Reserve notes.

The one-year anniversary of the final day of the royal coronation ceremony for King Rama X is the subject of a pair of commemorative bank notes released in Thailand.

In preparing to host an economic summit, Saudi Arabia issued a 20-riyal note to commemorate the occasion, but the note created controversy because of a map, and now it may be withdrawn from circulation.

Certain denominations of bank notes in Canada will no longer be considered legal tender after Jan. 1, 2021. The affected denominations have not been produced for over 20 years.