News & Notes, Volume II No. 8

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 08/16/2016 - 18:12

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

Liberia prints $5 billion in new currency(Daily Observer). And some discussion here (The Perspective).
2016 Numismatic Literary Guild awards (Coin Update).
The World's Fair of Money opens (Numsmatic News).
Cash not welcome at Swedish stores (CBS News).
Southern printers during the Civil War (Coin World).
ISIS won't issue paper currency (Numismatic News).
Return Native Americans to paper money (Connecticut Law Tribune).
German bank to charge its customers for their deposits (Financial Post).
How the DEA seizes your cash (USA Today).
Paper money from Southern Nigeria (Numismondo).
The Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection (Smithsonian).
What happens when you swallow paper money? (Quora). People of good will seem to disagree.
A Journal of an Indian Paper Money Collector, by Nilaish, Esq. (Blogspot).
Stack's Bowers at the ANA World's Fair of Paper Money (Stack's Bowers).
Make your own play money (The Game Crafter).
Spink auction results from July (Numismatic News).
Numismatic Catalog of Venezuela (Numismatica Venezuela).
Nepali banknotes (Youtube, video).
Spink to auction Vietnamese notes (Coin World).
EXHIBITION REVIEW: Otis Kaye: Money, Mystery, and Mastery (Wall Street Journal). This exhibition from 2015 took place at the New Britain (CT) Museum of American Art.
BOOK: Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi (Oxford University Press).
Palestinians decorate a groom with a necklace of banknotes (Getty Images).

Statement from Viavi CEO (Telecomlead).
Ink World Magazine (Ink World).
Middle East Printer (MEprinter). Website homepage.
Let's Talk Payments (LTP). Fintech website homepage.
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, 2016, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Robbers stole soiled Indian currency by cutting into a train's roof (The Indian Express).
Forced to accept cash, South African Uber drivers now fear for their lives (AFK Insider). Washington State lawmaker wants marijuana shops to get out of the cash-only business (KOBI-5).
A history of counterfeiting in Vermont, pdf available (Vermont Secretary of State).
Never cross your dealer (Athens Banner-Herald, via E-Sylum).
Bank of England exhibition on the history of counterfeiting (Evening Standard).
Albanian banknote skulduggery (BNE Intellinews).
Cooperating against counterfeiting (Central Banking).
Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS). Website homepage.
The God of Counterfeiting (Business Insider, via E-Sylum). "I loved money so much I decided to make my own."

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates).
Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates).
Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
Scotsbanknotes
Counting on Currency (Industry website).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
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.).
Where's George? (currency tracking project).
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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