Retired BEP employees confirm serpentine red markings found on five Series 1995 $1 star notes issued for the Philadelphia district are consistent with hand-applied defacement markings.

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority issued a $1 commemorative bank note Jan. 28 to mark the 60th anniversary last year of the country’s first written constitution.

At $32,400, an unlisted triple-signature Bahamas $50 note from 1965 more than doubled its $15,000 high estimate at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries world currency auction on Jan. 18.

Recent numismatic literature focuses on the same era, the American Civil War, with one work examining the study of Confederate Treasury notes and another addressing the introduction of a new motto.

A collection of Disney Dollars was among the sets to win honors during Paper Money Guaranty’s 2019 set registry competition.

The Bank of Canada has begun the redesign process for its $5 note and is asking the public for guidance on who the new note should depict.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan. 24 seized $900,000 in counterfeit $1 Federal Reserve notes, discovered in a commercial shipment originating from China.

America’s Founding Fathers 2020 Currency set is the newest addition to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Premium Currency Products line.

Notes of British India and Sarawak were among the highlights of the January auction of world bank notes conducted by Spink in New York City.

A Chinese icon, Liang Jun, the country’s first female tractor driver and the subject of the People’s Republic of China’s 1-yuan note from the 1960s to 1996, died at the age of 90 on Jan. 14.

Two bank notes printed on a somewhat unique substrate, not cotton paper, not polymer, but walrus skin parchment, stood out in the Jan. 9 Heritage Auctions world currency auction in Orlando.

Invisible ink may be the next counterfeit deterrent, as scientists in India experiment with new chemicals that have multiple possible security applications.

The West African CFA franc, since Dec. 26, 1945, the currency used by eight of the continent’s French-speaking countries, will soon be no more.

Critics are asking whether Bank of England polymer notes are holding up as well in circulation as expected.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s three currency-issuing banks will introduce new $20 and $50 notes on Jan. 14, in time for the Lunar New Year celebrations Jan. 25.

A diverse quintet of 20th century world bank notes are expected to surpass $25,000 each at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries world currency auction in New York City on Jan. 18.

The Central Bank of Myanmar introduced a 1,000-kyat note on Jan. 4, featuring Bogyoke Aung San, founder of the nation.

Trinidad and Tobago continues its newest bank note series with a $100 note made of polymer and featuring new technology.

The Bank of Ghana introduced 100- and 200-cedi bank notes, worth $18 and $36, on Dec. 2, continuing a series that began with smaller denominations.

An exhibit at the Library of Congress explores aspects of early American paper money, including the development of an anti-counterfeiting printing technique developed by Benjamin Franklin.