News & Notes Volume I, No. 40

• Local currencies and local payments systems (The Guardian).
• The public prefers Tanzanian banknotes over coins (All Africa).
• This "signature scrawl" bought Alaska (Alaska Dispatch News).
• "The design of American money is institutional narcissism." (Forbes).
• Jim Bevill and the Republic of Texas (Houston Chronicle).
• Chart of currency in circulation (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
• Coming soon: The Earth Dollar (earthdollar.org). "Earth Dollar is an asset-backed currency based on nature that fights climate change."
• Indiana's sales tax exemption for coins and paper money (Coin News Update).
• Torn notes unloved in India (Bangalore Mirror).
• David Stockman on bringing back the $1000 bill (David Stockman's Contra Corner).
• BOOK: Alexander Monro's The Paper Trail (Pop Matters). Marco Polo, paper, and currency.
• Negative interest rates may lead Japanese firms to hoard physical cash (CNBC).
• Reserve Bank of India to issue new 10-Rupee notes (WebIndia123).
• BEP to issue Founding Fathers currency set (Coin World).
• Selections from the Heritage Newman sale (E-Sylum).
• Cash is still king in most places (Dough Roller).
• The cost of cash in the UK (TechWeek Europe).
• UK businesses must prepare for polymer notes (IBS Intelligence).
• An argument for Pamela Anderson to be on the Canadian $20  (Niagara This Week). I'm sympathetic.

                         The Lady from Ladysmith, British Columbia (Niagara This Week)

• Ukraine to use flax in in its banknotes (Sputnik International).
• Nanotech and the "Regional Banknote of the Year" (Stockhouse).
• De La Rue proposes to end the passport (Express).
• Nanotech's KolourOptik (Equities).

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• A criminal conspiracy to smuggle fake Indian notes (The New Indian Express).
• A counterfeit note at Pattaya's Underwater World (Pattaya One).
• Central Piedmont Community College to create a certificate program to fight counterfeiting (Charlotte Observer).
• Rapper Fat Trel arrested for using nine counterfeit $50s at a Maryland casino. SALTY LANGUAGE (Complex). The notes had matching serial numbers.
• Gilbert Chikli, money launderer (Times of Israel).
• Lima's Fake Dollars (Vice News/Youtube). Video, approximately 20 minutes. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.