• Czech national Bank anniversary overprint
    Feb 20, 2023, 08:00 AM

    Czech National Bank overprints note to celebrate anniversary

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    The Czech National Bank has overprinted a new issue of its Series 2008 1,000-korun notes, specially marked to celebrate 30 years of the Czech korun and call to mind the first notes used in the separated Czechia.

  • Venezuela bank note from Stack
    Feb 8, 2023, 11:12 AM

    Venezuelan notes top lots in Stack’s Bowers NYINC auction

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Venezuelan bank notes far exceeded their estimates when sales were completed during Stack's Bowers Galleries' Jan. 13 NYINC auction, where the leading lot realized $84,000 against a $2,000 high estimate.

  • Commemorative bank note for Poland 2023
    Jan 30, 2023, 09:10 AM

    Polish central bank honors Copernicus with commemorative note

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    A commemorative polymer 20-zloty bank note scheduled for February release will honor Nicolaus Copernicus, marking the 550th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer who was also an economist.

  • Chinese artist Shi Yunlong
    Jan 23, 2023, 09:00 AM

    Chinese artist gets attention and visit from authorities

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    A story in a Chinese newspaper detailed the talents of artist Shi Yunlong who displays an ability to create lifelike $100 U.S. notes by hand and whose work has the attention of authorities.

  • New Jordan 1-dinar note
    Jan 21, 2023, 09:00 AM

    Jordan introduces new note series to replace older notes

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Jordan will offer a new series of notes for the first time in 20 years as the 1-dinar example has been issued and is circulating while the remaining denominations will be rolled out gradually.

  • 500-hryvnia note
    Jan 18, 2023, 09:00 AM

    Ukraine recognizes poet on new 500-hryvnia note

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    A 500-hryvnia commemorative bank note dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher-poet Hryhorii Skovoroda was issued Dec. 29 by the National Bank of Ukraine.

  • World Bank note error note
    Jan 15, 2023, 10:31 AM

    Auction firm offers third-of-its-kind error national bank note

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    A newly discovered rare national bank note with mismatched prefix letters is a highlight of March's World Banknote Auctions sale of part of the Navy Commander Collection of U.S. National and Gold Bank Notes.

  • danavermont-lead
    Jan 8, 2023, 10:00 AM

    Early American notes among sale offerings

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    EAHA is holding a sale closing Jan. 14 of 319 lots, including early American naval and military history-related material and paper money from the collection of Ambassador J. William “Bill” Middendorf.

  • Sheet of notes in Spink sale
    Jan 1, 2023, 08:00 AM

    Spink conducts another charity bank note auction in London

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Spink continued its tradition of hosting a Scottish bank note charity auction, with a 2022 fundraising event dedicating proceeds to the Trussell Trust for reducing reliance on emergency food banks.

  • Panama 10 peso note from 1869
    Dec 31, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Panamanian notes in Stack’s Bowers sale include circa 1869 rarity

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    The fewer than two dozen lots of the Ellicott Collection of Panamanian Paper Money Stack's Bowers Galleries offers Jan. 14 is the most extensive array of Panamanian notes the firm has ever offered.

  • fancy numbers
    Dec 25, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Fancy serial numbers among focuses in Goldbergs auction

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Fancy serial numbers always draw the curious, and the Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers sale in early 2023 offers the curious 143 lots of fancy serial numbers, plus error notes and more.

  • Bank of Central African States notes
    Dec 24, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Central African states issue five new notes in series

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Six nations in central Africa will see five new notes start to make their way through the country with new designs of the CFA-franc denominations replacing the older notes to be removed by 2024.

  • Lucky Money fortune notes
    Dec 23, 2022, 08:00 AM

    BEP to resume collectibles issues offered on Mint website

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Most Bureau of Engraving and Printing collector products have been unavailable since the COVID crisis of 2020, but it appears a restart of the program is imminent, with special products to be available soon.

  • 5 pound note King Charles III
    Dec 21, 2022, 09:09 AM

    First King Charles III notes are unveiled by Bank of England

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    The Bank of England reveals its polymer bank notes with the portrait of King Charles III on the face, anticipated to begin appearing in circulation by 2024, with no change to the back of the notes.

  • Janet Yellen and Lynn Roberge Malerba
    Dec 19, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Yellen-Malerba Series 2021 notes in production at BEP

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Series 2021 notes are now being printed with the signatures of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Treasurer Lynn Roberge Malerba, the first U.S. paper money series to carry signatures two women.

  • United Arab Emirates 1,000 dirhams
    Dec 12, 2022, 08:00 AM

    United Arab Emirates releases new high-denomination note

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Featuring the United Arab Emirates' global achievements in space exploration and clean energy, the UAE's new highest denomination note is printed on a durable polymer substrate for longer circulation.

  • Barbados $5 note
    Dec 12, 2022, 00:37 AM

    Barbados issues new series of bank notes with updated designs

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Barbados' new bank note series, all polymer, changes the subjects to a vertical presentation, among other differences in detail, and was issued from the central bank to commercial banks Dec. 5.

  • Crane Currency movie money
    Dec 10, 2022, 11:01 AM

    Movie money can pose a potential problem to public

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Crane Currency warns that readily available prop/movie money, legal for whimsical purchase, carries deceptive "shiny foils and stick-on holograms" that risk attracting counterfeiters' abuse.

  • 5000 yen note for 2023
    Dec 5, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Transition to new notes ongoing for Bank of Japan

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Mass production of redesigned bank notes announced in 2019 has begun in Japan with three denominations of the new notes expected to start circulation in April.

  • Nigeria 200-naira note
    Dec 4, 2022, 08:00 AM

    Nigeria unveils trio of new bank notes in different colors

    by Arthur L. Friedberg
    Nigeria is changing the look of its currency for the first time in nearly 20 years, and while it appears to be only a color change, the old notes will lose legal tender status in a short time.

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