Announcement of new designs for bank notes in Argentina brought immediate protest and a lawsuit, filed on behalf of persons with vision disabilities who foresee problems with the new notes.

Heritage expects Asian note popularity to further raise already high bids for a 1949 People’s Bank of China 100-yuan note and a 1921 Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. $50 specimen note.

Noted expert in national bank notes and obsolete notes Don C. Kelly, author of a pair of massive standard reference works on those subjects, has passed away at the age of 88.

Argentina will be replacing native animals and geographic scenes on its bank notes with 19th and 20th century national heroes and heroines when the fifth series of notes is put into circulation.

Construction of a euro bank note printing operation, begun more than two years ago is complete, with movement of staff and equipment next in the plan, and printing to begin in late 2022.

A report from a commission studying the existing coins and currency of Taiwan determines that depiction of Chiang Kai-shek is not in the best interest of democratic norms.

Mutáwi Mutáhash (Many Hearts) Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, nurse, public administrator and lifetime chief of the Mohegan tribe, is now treasurer of the United States, appointed by President Joe Biden.

The finest example of a 1903 Russo-Chinese Bank $5 bank note sold for well over its estimate during the Noonans May sale in London that also featured unique notes.

The June 3 to 5 Spink bank note sale in Hong Kong saw top seller honors go to a 1951 People's Bank of China 5,00-yuan note, one of the early renminbi notes from the nation's communist government.

A collector noticed something unusual on some Series 2017A $50 notes printed at the BEP Fort Worth facility: differing font sizes on face plate numbers, indicating two different printing systems in use.

The Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis has re-opened its Economy Museum with new interactive exhibits for visitors to get an increased educational experience about money.

Fake 500-rupee notes are proliferating rather than declining in India despite the prime minister's 2016 move demonetize and issue new ones, but the central bank promises new counterfeit-proof notes.

The fourth known £100 note from the Palestine Currency Board issued Sept. 1, 1927, found in a box of items donated to the charity Oxfam, was sold in an April Spink sale for £168,000.

Officials with the Bank of Jamaica are finding that the switch to polymer notes is an expensive production, but with cost-savings expected in the long run.

Security printer Giesecke+Devrient proposes a "green" concept note to address durability and sustainability of circulating bank notes, an environmentally friendly hybrid of organic fiber and polymer.

A possibly unique uniface Series of 1895 Republic of Hawaii $50 silver certificate of deposit on thin card is just one intriguing item in the Archives International Auctions offering June 15 in New Jersey.

Tunisia's 5-dinar and 50-dinar notes that have been circulating for the past decade are about to be replaced with new examples that will include enhanced security features.

A newly designed 10-manat bank note will replace a recent issue in Azerbaijan, introducing new security features while keeping the theme “history,” with much of the notes' imagery similar.

No new series of notes is expected until a new U.S. treasurer is appointed, and preparing and packaging products for collectors will remain on hiatus at BEP, as COVID still affects the workplace.

A full set of notes from the short-lived series of 1941 Panama Arias notes is featured in the Stack's Bowers Galleries Collectors Choice Online Auction June 23.