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.

New standards on paper money were imposed in Thailand in 1902 and a new book has been created on the subject with author Jan Olav Wilborn Aamlid utilizing much of his collection as subject matter.

A pair of bank notes issued by the Qatar and Dubai Currency Board are expected to be top attractions in the World Banknotes Auction sale in late May, among the 556 lots up for bids.

The Central Bank of Barbados plans its first issue of a polymer note series, with six denominations set for Dec. 5 release in the same general themes as current notes, but dramatically transformed.

The 232-lots session of U.S. paper money errors was centerpiece of an early May Lyn Knight auction, with exceptional high grade examples and some very affordable pieces.

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates released two new polymer notes for circulation, adding these issues to a previously issued polymer commemorative note.

Recently issued Bank of Scotland polymer £100 notes were offered in a charity auction by Spink with the proceeds of the sale benefitting Mental Health UK and the Royal Free Hospital, London.

A new $100 note will be issued in Zimbabwe reflecting the highest denomination in use in the country that has been subject to hyperinflation and drawing concerns from citizens about its creation.