Adam Stroup is a prolific contributor of bank vignettes to the Banks and Bankers database maintained on the Society of Paper Money Collectors website. He has proved to be an exceptionally talented discoverer of anomalies associated...
This is part 2 of a two-part series (see the August 2026 issue of Bank Note Reporter for part 1). This month we will be in Ohio to look at a true rust belt town, the once bustling, but now pretty derelict, Mingo Junction, Ohio. From Moundsville, I...
Unlike other denominations, there are no new 250th Semiquincentennial $2 bills to collect. That’s official from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), which is looking to issue denominations featuring a facsimile signature of...
Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene-based Opacified Polymer Substrate is a mouthful. It’s the long-hand way of describing polymer, the plastic on which increasing numbers of bank notes are being printed worldwide. One ream of this...