The Chinese New Year begins Feb. 1, the Year of the Tiger, but the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Lucky Money product for 2022 isn't ready yet, as the BEP continues to deal with COVID delays.

With no appointee filling the U.S. treasurer's office, no treasurer signature is available, and no new note series will be issued until that problem is resolved.

A note commemorating the 50th anniversary of a historic event became historic in its own right as the 50-dirham note is the first polymer note issued by the Central Bank of UAE.

A Series 1882 $1,000 gold certificate from the Joel Anderson Collection is considered the finest known and will be offered at the Heritage sale held in January at the FUN Convention.

New Zealand is seeing an increase in defaced notes due to a hoax played on its citizens who are rubbing the notes with coins as if they were lottery tickets and ruining the bills in the process.

The Federal Reserve's print order for notes, submitted to the BEP in July, allows for an increase in 2022 to meet the trend of increasing demand for paper money during the global pandemic.

A drastic design change is expected for the euro bank note by 2024 with plans to involve citizens in providing opinions on what should be depicted on the future currency.

An international hologram trade group assigned three of its five top awards — best security application, origination and innovation — for uses of the three-dimensional imagery on currency notes.

New polymer notes from Romania include the Nov. 26 issue of a 20-lei note honoring a heroic female soldier, the first real woman on Romanian currency, and a Dec. 1 issue replicating the first 20-lei note.

Beijing is hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics Games in February and several commemorative notes created by Bank of China entities mark the occasion.

A new bank note series is beginning in Liberia, starting with $100 notes (valued at 70 U.S. cents), with a release timed to increase liquidity in the economy for the holiday season.

In fear that currency could carry the COVID-19 virus, an elderly Israeli woman placed bleached notes collected as rent in a microwave to disinfect, which burned them, causing her to repent in ashes.

A price record was set at the Stack's Bowers Galleries Baltimore sale when the finest known Series 1890 $20 Treasury note sold for $81,000 including the buyer's fee.

A commemorative 500-manat note being issued by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan celebrates the first anniversary of victory in the 44-day Patriotic War of 2020.

Bank of Mexico's Series G 50-peso polymer note, issued Oct. 28, features Teocalli De La Guerra Sagrada monolith on the face and Mexico’s rivers and lakes (and a salamander) on the back.

What were once thought to be foreign currency vouchers from North Korea are now reported to be emergency money coupons, issued because of inability to issue bank notes.

Chinese bank notes from the Lucerne Collection will be featured in a 612-lot, two-session public auction by Archives International Auctions LLC to begin on Dec. 7.

Lyn Knight Currency Auctions' rare December auction, between the Baltimore Expo and FUN, is a chance to pick up quality notes from the Dan Freeland Collection of Michigan national bank notes.

Notes from England, Ireland and Scotland are among the featured lots in the upcoming Dix Noonan Webb sale with several lots expected to bring high interest and a high selling price.

Spink resumed its floor auctions (with an associated e-auction), offering over 400 lots of world notes in an Oct. 27 London sale, where a group of Sarawak notes soared, and other results were mixed.