Filtered by tag: Banknotes
June 23, 2026
A remarkable piece of Western Canadian history headlines the latest issue of Canadian Coin News as an 1870 Hudson’s Bay Company promissory note issued at Fort Garry takes centre stage in The Canadian...
From Canadian Coin News
June 13, 2026
Visitors to the Higgins Museum of National Bank Notes during the summer months can see 31 Revolutionary War-era paper currency issues. This exhibition is on loan from the collection of a museum board...
From The Reading Room
June 9, 2026
My wife and I have been binge-watching the AMC-produced Interview with the Vampire television series, which is (loosely) based on Anne Rice’s eponymous series of gothic novels. The first episode...
From PCGS
June 1, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently revealed that the Treasury department has already produced mock-up designs for a proposed $250 bill featuring Trump’s image. The legislation authorizing the...
From The Reading Room
May 28, 2026
The Bank of Scotland has unveiled a limited-edition £20 note to highlight Scotland national soccer team midfielder Scott McTominay’s iconic overhead kick. His goal in the November match against...
From The Reading Room
May 26, 2026
A full set of 1990 trial Central Bank of Iraq bank notes bearing a portrait of Saddam Hussein will be offered at a Noonans auction on May 27. Never issued due to the First Gulf War, the three trial...
From The Reading Room
May 19, 2026
A canceled Jan. 9, 1927, Palestine 100-pound note, Pick 11a as attributed in the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money by Albert Pick, and issued by the Palestine Currency Board, realized $219,600...
From Coin World
April 30, 2026
British artist Tom Charter, the “Pigeon Picasso,” has always admired the common city bird, which serves as the muse for his body of illustrations and designs. When the Bank of England announced that...
From The Reading Room
April 27, 2026
In a move blending historical recognition with economic necessity, Cuba has introduced two new high-denomination bank notes — firsts of their kind in more ways that one — as the island continues to...
From Coin World
April 24, 2026
The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) has selected the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten’s 200 gulden as the 2025 Bank Note of the Year. With almost 100 new notes released worldwide last...
From The Reading Room
April 22, 2026
A recent counterfeit cash incident in the Greater Toronto Area is highlighting ongoing risks for collectors and the wider public, as fake $100 and $50 notes continue to circulate in the marketplace.
From Canadian Coin News
April 16, 2026
A Series 1953 $2 United States note carried by astronaut Gene Cernan on three historic NASA missions, including the final lunar landing, is drawing strong early bidding in an April sale by RR Auction.
From Canadian Coin News
April 10, 2026
This summer will mark the fourth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II passing. She was the United Kingdom’s longest-reigning monarch and one of the longest serving of any sovereign state in human...
From PCGS
April 9, 2026
The Central Bank of Cuba will soon introduce two new bank notes that feature women for the first time in the country’s history. Previously, Cuba’s highest denomination bank note was the 1,000 peso,...
From The Reading Room
April 9, 2026 | Featured
The obverse is green on a pink and light blue background, with blue serial numbers. On the left is the portrait of Manuel Quezon (1878-1944), the first president of the Philippines in 1935. He left...
From Coins and Canada