Author Mudassir Iqbal Shaikh passed along this information about his upcoming book. Thank you. -Editor

I am a professional numismatist from Lahore, Pakistan, and Joint Secretary of the Lahore International Numismatic Society. I have completed a forthcoming book titled A Chronicle of Hundred Stories: Forgotten Moments of the Numismatic World—100 key numismatic events, each presented in a tight 100-word narrative with high-resolution archival images.

Before publication, the project has already attracted formal interest and image permissions from several institutions:

• The British Museum (Dr. Thomas Hockenhull has requested a copy for the museum's library)
• Monnaie de Paris (granted high-resolution images and requested a library copy)
• NatWest Group Archives and Barclays Group Archives (granted archival images with formal citation references)
• The World Money Fair Berlin (reviewed and fact-checked their entry, granted logo use)

I will be exhibiting the manuscript at the Kuala Lumpur International Numismatic Fair (KLINF) in October 2026.

Here are some sample pages. Three of these discuss numismatic topics I wasn't aware of. For example, the story on the radioactive origins of the Automatic Teller Machine notes that for authentication, the world's first ATM used specialized paper vouchers treated with a trace amount of Carbon-14, a radioactive isotope. -Editor