News & Notes, Volume I, No. 28

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

Fedcoin, alongside Bitcoin? (Newsweek). And sessions on cryptocurrency at the upcoming American Economic Association conference (allcoinsnews).
For your New Year's Day meal, collard greens represent currency, black-eyed peas are the coins (Yadkin Ripple). In Germany, it's sauerkraut that represents currency (Tri-City Herald).
German emergency banknotes of 1960-63 (Coin Update).
The Hawaii overprint note (Coin Update).
Notes of Lanao province, Philippines (E-Sylum, excerpted from Numismatic News).
Virginia's $1000 note (E-Sylum).
Five notes from the upcoming Heritage FUN auction (COINWeek). And a Binion note (Numismaster).
Reserve Bank of India to banks: Replace those notes (The Hindu).
Creating two notes out of one, in Canada (Fast Company).
Baltimore's BNote is now five years old (The Daily Record, gated).
Nairobi residents can use the Pesa (VOA).
The Colorado Currency Corporation [sic] (Coloradopay).
A local money for Nancy [France] (L'Est Republicain, in French).

About one in three are defective (The Hindu).

Counterfeit fears in Australia (Current Affairs).
Bad bills in the UAE (Gulf News).
Fake euro notes in Lansing, MI (WILX).
In Weymouth, MA, fake money bought fake food. “There were forged bills, cutting instruments and resume paper strewn about the room,” police said. “There were sheets of partially forged bills lying on the floor and the trash barrel was full of crumpled sheets of printed currency” (Weymouth News).
Counterfeit detectors in demand in Kochi (Times of India).
He blamed the woman (Essex Chronicle).
Fooled by movie cash (News-Graphic).

(in no particular order)

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