News & Notes Volume I, No. 39

• Looking for "a Bank NOTE-able Canadian Woman" (Bank of Canada).
• Mehmet S. Tezçakın's collection of Ottoman banknotes is on display at the Moda Sea Club (Daily Sabah). The use of stamps on emergency notes is very interesting.
• A primer on currency collecting (COINWeek).
• The Zero-Rupee note, still in use (Zee News).
• In Tom Clancy's The Division, smallpox spreads via currency (Co-Optimus).
• Paying with poems instead of banknotes (Edinburgh News).
• The place of national banknotes in modern collecting (Coin World).
• Tax implications of community currencies (Forbes).
• The missing $A 100 note (Blue Notes).
• Australia's $5 to help the vision impaired (Gizmodo).
• Demand for 1000-Franc notes is on the up (Bloomberg).
• "How the World's Currencies Got their Names" (Business Insider).
• "A Woman's Shot at the $20" (NY Times). Editorial.
• In Greece, cash = criminality (MINA).
• Some Toronto restaurants no longer take cash (blogTO).
• Belarus to drop a few zeros, create a new currency series (Coin World).
• How about Lucretia Mott? (Philly.com).
• Dr. Marion Hilliard, another candidate for Canada's currency (Standard-Freeholder).
• Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Ebony). She appeared on Jamaica's $500 note.
• The $10 Silver Certificate of 1933 (COINWeek).
• Spink's auction of the Bruce Smart collection (COINWeek).
• Paper money during wartime (COINWeek).
• An art print version of Brixton's David Bowie note will be auctioned to support the Brixton Pound project (Brixton Pound).
• Slippery banknotes bedevil British ATMs (Chicago Tribune).
• Georgian Lari and Kazakh Tengi notes are co-winners of the Regional Banknote of the Year 2016 award at Renaissance's High Security Printing Europe conference (Agenda). And here.  Ireland won the Regional ID of the Year award for a passport card that accommodates selfies (Independent).
• Elderly Koreans hoard cash at home (Korea Herald).
• The challenges of getting rid of high-value Indian notes (Live Mint).
• Eleanor Roosevelt on a $25 bill? (Huffington Post).
• Local taxes can be paid with Bristol Pounds (Bristol Pound).
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the musical "Hamilton", is confident that he'll remain on the $10 note (The Hill). And, "Has 'Hamilton' Saved Hamilton?" (NY Times). And confirmation from Playbill.
• Upcoming Archives International auction, April 11-13 (ARTFIX Daily).
• BOOK: A Comprehensive Catalog and History of Confederate Bonds (COINWeek).

        Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of "Hamilton", and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
                                               (Official US Treasury photo)

• Fortress Paper's banknote substrate was a winner, along with Kazakhstan (EIN News).
• Ratings on Spectra Systems (Share News).
• Ratings on Koenig & Bauer (Octa Finance).
• SUZOHAPP (Your Guide).
• ABN's old building is for sale (Commercial Observer).

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• A member of the "sovereign citizen movement", He tried to issue $100 trillion in fake financial documents (Oregon Live). At least he was thinking big.
• Bulgarian police bust fake Euro operation (Securing Industry).
• Fake rupees sourced out of Bangladesh (One India).
• Fighting fakes with an app from the Bank of England (Securing Industry).