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[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

Travails documented of using Northern Ireland banknotes (sluggerotoole.com).
Sweden's new Krona banknotes are now in circulation (Riksbank). The 20 SEK note features Astrid Lindgren.
Reserve Bank of Fiji warns citizens not to iron their new $5 polymer banknotes (Reserve Bank of Fiji).
New Zealand's Series 7 $10 note (CoinWeek).
Who should endorse Sri Lanka's banknotes? (Hiru News).
A Burmese banknote that was encoded with dissidence (worksthatwork.com).
A dangerous banknote trick (Youtube).
Questioning some design features on Russian currency (Russian News).
Mock currency picturing the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn (Getty Images). And another picture here (Getty Images).
Venezuela's largest note is now worth 12 U.S. cents. "Supply and demand for trading the currency in its cash form has been reduced, since the largest denomination of 100Bs. now buys just 12 US cents" (Panama Post).
In God We Trust (Today in History).
Kuwaiti Dinars withdrawn from circulation (Kuwait Times).
A call for more women on Canadian banknotes. “Nellie McClung, not well hung. But in history’s halls, she’s got great big balls” (thestar.com).
A local currency for Anger, France?(Sud-Ouest, in French)
The Worcester Pound (worcesterpound.org.uk).
Somebody is shredding lots of money in Darmstadt, and nobody knows why (derwesten.de, in German).

Astrid Lindgren, on the new Swedish 20 Kronor Note

Armored panels for the Spanish Royal Mint (Business Wire).

Fake $A 100s and 50s in NSW (Northernstar.com). "On the Reserve Bank website is says if you crush a bank note they should spring back and these ones don't."
Fake notes in Argentina sported a portrait of Ataturk (Today's Zaman).
Counterfeits in the Maldives (vnews.mv).
"He forgot a bit of money in the car" (francetvinfo, in French).
Pakistan stocks up on fake currency detection machines (thenewstribe.com).
Busted for operating a hawala (LA Times).
More on Fake India Currency Notes [FICN] (Nagpur Today).
In Munich, a drunk taxi passenger stuffs banknote into driver's mouth. It was a 100-Euro note, but the fine was 500 Euros (taxi-heute.de, in German).

Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
"Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes)
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
Scotsbanknotes
Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie

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