Currency Coming and Going​

• Indonesia is retiring old notes (Tempo).
• Most central banks within the Euro system to stop issuing "Bin Ladens" (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• "The Bar Where Your Cash is Worthless" (BBC).
• Straits Settlements notes offered by Stack's Bowers (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• What are Aussie dollars used for, and where have they all gone? (Reserve Bank of Australia, pdf).
• Indian entrepreneur wants to rid Japan of currency (Quartz).
• ANA's Money Museum online (Coinweek).
• "Let the lira speak again" (The961). A Lebanese artists restores value to worthless currency.
• Feliks Topolski's depictions of the Bank of Englands printing works in Debden, Essex (Coinsweekly).
• BOOK: The International Banknote Society's Introduction to Banknotes & Banknote Collecting (IBNS, via E-Sylum).
• Dog eats charity cash, but then later donates some back (Eastern Daily Press). “I could see the purple of the queen’s head peeping out.” Another argument for switching to polymer?

                            Who's a good dog? (Eastern Daily Press).

                    New Banknote Issues

• Egypt to introduce polymer banknotes in 2020 (GDN Online). Economists like the idea (Egypt Independent).
• China to move to polymer substrate for low-denomination notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Hong Kong's new HKD 1,000 note (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (South China Morning Post).
• Yemen's new 100 riyal banknote will arrive in early 2019 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Algeria's 500 and 1,000 dinar notes are ready to go (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• China's renminbi celebration (Coin World).

New issues of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (MRI Bankers' Guide).