What may be the most extensive assortment of Jamaican bank notes of the sterling era ever assembled is coming up for sale during a Nov. 3 World Banknote Auctions session.

A commemorative $70 bank note has been issued to honor the one-year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II with the denomination reflective of the Platinum Jubilee.

The retirement of Director Len Olijar has led to a vacancy in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that is being filled temporarily by acting director Charlene E. Williams.

The Central Bank of Lesotho has only authorized commemorative coins but the agency has made an exception with a commemorative bank note in honor of the nation's king.

A new book by economics professor Farley Grubb presents a different interpretation of the history of the early U.S. monetary system and the first U.S. paper money, notes known as Continental dollars.

A very rare Bank of England £5 note, issued in Leeds in 1900, signed by Horace G. Bowen, the bank's chief cashier from 1893 to 1902, is offered Oct. 12 in a Noonans British and Irish bank notes sale.

Three Colonial notes in Kagin’s Auctions’ Sept. 23 online sale of notes from the legendary collection of John J. Ford Jr. surged past $30,000. All three are plate notes in Eric Newman’s "The Early Paper Money of America."

For the first time since the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, new collector products from the BEP are again being offered for purchase, starting with a pair of uncut sheets of Federal Reserve notes.

The deadline for redeeming paper £50 and £100 notes in Northern Ireland passed, but its banks banks will continue to accept them, while issuing new, more durable, harder to counterfeit polymer notes.

A mid-September paper money auction by Heritage reflects the generally increasing interest in high denomination notes, as prices realized rose well above previous benchmarks.

MDC Monaco is holding a 366-lot auction of world paper money on Oct.13 that will feature what the firm describes as “an exceptional Greek banknotes collection, and many Top Pop banknotes.”

Europol’s “European Financial and Economic Crime Threat Assessment 2023” covered counterfeiting among other financial crimes and described successful efforts to nab one prolific criminal enterprise.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers called on expert help to relocate a hive of nearly 30,000 honeybees discovered as workers clear the site for the new BEP facility, which is to begin construction in 2024.

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Fiji is anticipating 2024's Year of the Dragon by releasing a polymer 100-cent non-circulating bank note featuring a mellow pearl-guarding dragon and a security device of fish that appear to swim.

A new printing process allowed by new equipment may make obsolete the need to print star notes to replace imperfect notes, as non-sequential printing will be possible.

Notes from Canada drew high bids as expected, but some from Colombia provided a bit of a surprise, in Stack's Bowers Galleries' 579-lot Global Showcase Auction of notes from the Americas.

A new 20,000-kyat bank note issued by the nation of Myanmar celebrates completion of a giant statue of Buddha its builders hope will establish the country as a focal point for Theravada Buddhism.

New versions of 5-dinar and 10-dinar bank notes are being introduced by the Central Bank of Jordan, completing the bank's fifth note series, which includes 1-dinar and 20-dinar notes.

A research team from the University of Notre Dame published findings of a seven-year project looking into methods and materials used by Benjamin Franklin designed to thwart note counterfeiting.