Currency Coming and Going​

• Some history about Mormons and money (The Conversation).
• Those Irish punts keep coming in (The Irish Times).
• 50,000 Deutschmarks found in Lower Saxony flea market clock (Deutsche Welle).
• At the end of 2019, what remains outstanding in Latvia (Public Broadcasting of Latvia).
• Win this pile of Turkish Lira (Hurriyet Daily News).
• How Macau's currency works (South China Morning Post).
• Library of Congress exhibits early American notes, and Franklin's handiwork (Coin World).
• A critical history of the CFA franc (Punch).
• Houthi rebels reject, and confiscate, Yemeni national currency (Al Shawa). Yemeni civil servants go without salaries (Asharq Al-Awsat).
• Chinese firms pay their Zimbabwean employees in banknotes by weight (iHarare).
• Old Belarus ruble notes now redeemable only at the central bank (National Bank of the Republic of Belarus).
• Japan's "Cat Currency", issued by Neco Republic (Sora News 24).
• Irate Missouri woman pays her property tax in nickels (abc7news)
• Travails of traveling cashless on the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Pittsburgh Post Gazette).
• Temple currency donations "rotting away" in Nepal (The Star).
• At this San Antonio eatery, it's time again for the paper money wall to come down (El Defensor Chieftan).
• Memories invoked by checks (The Salt Lake City Tribune).
• For 2020, consider a Postage Stamp Watch (Business World).

     The Business of Collecting

• Hope for the hobby (Numismatic news).
• Stack's Bower's NYINC offerings include rare Palestinian banknote (Coinweek).
• Rare dong specimen at auction (Coinweek).
• PCGS to begin embedding security chips in slabs (Coinweek).
• The SPMC at FUN 2020 (SPMC).

     New Banknote Issues

• Morocco is considering a switch to banknotes "polymérisés"  (La Vie Éco, in French).
• Romania's new commemorative (Banknote News).
• Hong Kong's new $20 banknotes to be in circulation soon (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ghana's new notes (Coin World). Ghana would like to join the new West African currency union, but with conditions (Reuters). And here (Bloomberg).
• Has France "kidnapped" West Africa's new Eco currency? (All Africa).
• Liberian lawmakers bribed to vote for new currency issue (Front Page Africa). Lol, come again? But of those legislators, here are the "defiant ones" (Front Page Africa). Liberia, U.S. in "currency management agreement" concerning new issues (The New Dawn Liberia).
• Please, use Ghana's new banknotes (Modern Ghana).
• Looking forward to Britain's new twenty (Taxi-Point).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Show, January 9-12, 2020 (FUN).
• New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC), January 16-19, 2020 (NYINC).
• ANA National Money Show, Atlantia, Georgia, February 27-29, 2020 (ANA).
• 38th annual Paris Paper Money Show, Paris-Bagnolet, France, February 8, 2020 (AFEP).
• Central States Numismatic Association 81st Convention, April 22-24, 2020, Shaumburg, Illinois (CSNS).
• Annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, May 20-23, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky (AHPCS)
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC). Yes, that year is 2021.

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• ACMA Currency Notes (ACMA).
• Indian-sourced new security ink (DevDiscourse).
• Spectra System's patent portfolio (ShareCast).
• CCL Secure's 2019 in review (CCL Secure).
• Crane's banknote business (Seeking Alpha).
• Italy to reward its citizens for abandoning cash (PYMNTS).