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

The atheist who just won't quit (Cleveland.com).
An heirloom chest full of German East African banknotes (Coin World).
In India at least, they still love cash (Quartz).
And she was on Malawi's 200 Kwacha banknote (Nyasa Times).
David Bowie not only made it onto the Brixton Pound, but was a financial innovator in his own right (Financial Magnates).
A pooch in China has an expensive snack. But why was the husband hiding the money from the wife? (Daily Mail, via E-Sylum).
An online cash contagion (Gaming Bolt).
The provenance of a Lovell, Wyoming banknote (Peter Huntoon, in Numismaster).
Keep Hamilton, ditch Old Hickory (Boston Globe).
Pakistan's demonetization schedule (The Nation).
NEW BOOK: Bob McCabe's Counterfeiting and Technology (Coin Update).
Cuba's Dollar Stores (Blasting News).
125th Anniversary of the ANA (CoinWeek).
"Noting that Venezuela's largest paper money currently in circulation is the 100-Bolivar banknote--worth only 12 cents at prevailing exchange rates--Quiroga said 'there's no easy way out' of the country's economic mess." (Washington Diplomat).
The Bank of North America opened on January 7, 1782 (Money Week).
A germaphobe for plastic (Estevan Lifestyles).
Piles of cash for a princess reincarnated as a snake (Atlas Obscura).

And the skies look very different today (Qoin)

Bad, bad doggie (Daily Mail)

Gavit & Co, the smallest firm to merge into the American Banknote Company (Coin World).
More fallout from India's defective notes (The Times of India). Two officials were suspended (The Times of India). And an investigation (NYOOOZ).
The outlook for Spectra Systems Co. (Risers and Fallers).
Changes to Fortress Paper's Board of Directors (Stockhouse).
Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Co.'s (KOMSCO) plans for market expansion (Business Korea).
Learn about Blockchain technology here (Brookings).

Counterfeits in Michigan City (WNDU).
Some dumb Chinese thieves (South China Morning Post).
They were caught because they kept a list of the shops where they passed fake notes (Independent).
New 200-Shekel notes are already being forged (Arutz Sheva).
A 500-Hryvnia note with greater security (Coin World).
First he tried shoving the queer, then he shoved an officer (Cleveland.com).
Bristol Bill's Bogus Bills (Burlington Free Press).
Stop counterfeiters with a cash counter (Cummins Allison).
Fake Bengals tickets on Craigslist (Dayton Daily News).
They operated out of a Super 8 motel (Boston.com).
Details from "El Chapo" Guzman's childhood, provided by his mother: "Even as a little child, he had ambitions. I remember he had a lot of paper money--little notes of 50's and 5's. He'd count and recount them, then tie them up in little piles. He'd say, 'Mama, save them for me.' It was just colored paper, but they looked real. He piled them up carefully...Ever since he was little he always had hopes." (Hollywood Life).

(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)
Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
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
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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