Currency Coming and Going​

• Artist makes a "Brexit" banknote (Hackney Citizen).
• Artist re-creates Nike products with banknotes (Hypebeast).
• Art by Karl Lagasse (E-Sylum).
• What some of those old Canadian notes can go for (Barrie Today).
• Sen. Jodi Ernst wants to tweak the metallic composition of coins (SouthernMinn).
• Central Bank of Kenya to keep track of old banknote redemptions (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The Gambia and its "aging" banknotes (The Point).
• In addition to a shortage of currency, Zimbabwe now has a shortage of passports (AP).
• "Chinese Paper Money at the Royal Society" (E-Sylum).
• "The Boom in Benjamins" (International Monetary Fund).
• "The Introduction of Paper Money" (National Geographic, video).
• Why Italy's parallel currency proposal disturbs the Euro zone (Financial Times, video).
• Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's claims, the Tubman design is ready (New York Times). And here (Splinter News).
• The British Museum's exhibition, "Playing With Money" (Numismag);
• Twenty-five years of the Croatian Kuna (Coinsweekly). Croatia wants you to turn in those old, no-longer-legal tender banknotes (Total Croatia News).
• Banknote collector Christian Funke of the IBNS is interviewed on Bavarian radio (BR Bayern 2, in German).
• Banknotes of the Polish exile government, 1939 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The "Bamberger Reiter", and his place on German currency (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Profile of Louise Linton, wife of Secretary Mnuchin (LA Magazine).
• "The History of the War on Cash" (The Motley Fool). Beginning with the Diners Club card.

     The Business of Collecting

• The PNG Day Show (Coinweek).
• PMG at Summer FUN (PMG).
• The Mexico chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• A new, online, edition of Early Paper Money (E-Sylum).
• BOOK: Le Franc (E-Sylum).

     New Banknote Issues

• Samoa's new 10 tala note (Coin World).
• U.S. embassy in Nairobi does not want your new Shilling notes (Nairobi News). And here (Standard).
• Ireland's "souvenir" euros (Digital Journal).
• Singapore's $20 commemorative (Steven Bron). Singapore to put out more commemorative notes to meet demand (Independent).
• Venezuela to put 10,000, 20,000, and 50,000 bolivar notes in circulation (Reuters).  People ask what's the point (CBC). And here (The Guardian). And here (Banknote News).
• On Australia's $50 banknote typo: "No one died" (Bloomberg).

                     Turning over a new leaf in Venezuela? (The Guardian).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Trends in cash usage (Fedpayments Improvement).
• Try to use cash at an Amazon Go store (Gizmodo).
• BOOK: Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking (EH.net).
• De La Rue spins off its identity solutions business (Shares Magazine).
• The lessons of Kenya's M-Pesa (The New Times).