Currency Coming and Going​

•  An Elegy for Cash (MIT Technology Review).
• The Notgeld of the prisoners of war of Avignon (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Spaniards' unredeemed pesetas (Murcia Today).
• Taiwan keeping cash fresh for the lunar new year (Taiwan News).
• With Houthi banknote ban, Yemenis are caught in the middle (The National). Yemen seeks international help (Yemen Online).
• A look back, over 18 years, at what currencies the Euro has replaced (Business Insider).
• "Magnetic Money" (SurfKY). Ingredients: Neodymium Magnet, United States Dollar Bill.
• Zimbabweans exhorted to "defend and protect" the local currency (Business Day).
• Japan's "Lucky Cat" banknotes, now with accessories (Sora News 24).
• Kenyan cash hoard, found after 14 years, has become obsolete (Tuko).
• Great Britain may be finding that polymer notes aren't so tough after all (BBC). And here (Yorkshire Post). And here (Coin Update).
• British vegans against 'unethical' banknotes (The Telegraph). Their legal case (Express).
• Polish shopper turns in banknote wad found in second-hand jacket (The First News).
• Haitian revolutionary figure appeared on its banknotes (The Haitian Times).

     The Business of Collecting

• Rare New Brunswick banknotes on offer at FUN 2020 (CBC).
• Highlights of Stack's Bower's ANA auction (Greysheet Daily News). And here (Coin World).

     New Banknote Issues

• Were Ghanaians 'ambushed' by their new banknotes? (Modern Ghana). Ghanaian political opposition vows to investigate new cedi issue (Modern Ghana).
• Hong Kong's new banknotes will be ready for the lunar new year (Yahoo Finance).
• Bahama's digital "Sand Dollar" (Central Bank of the Bahamas).
• Zimbabwe's new $5 note (Banknote News).
• Trans-Dniester's "numismatic product" (Banknote News).
• Why Ghana needed new notes (Pulse).
• Myanmar's new 1,000 kyat banknote (Coin World). And here (The Irrawaddy).

                  General Aung San, for Auld Lang Syne (The Irrawaddy).

     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

• MANI, India's currency app for the visually impaired (Indian Express).
• The Indian air force and its banknote airlift (technoea).
• The complications of too much currency in circulation in Pakistan (Business Recorder).
• Stock picks to profit on the "war on cash" (Nasdaq).
• Taiwan still likes its cash (Taipei Times).
• Afghanistan to source its banknote production to Polish Security Printing Works (Tolo News).
• CCL Industries to acquire Polish film producer (Global Newswire).
• Travelex deals with cyberattack (IBS Intelligence).
• Will foreign consultants make a difference in Liberia's banknote saga? (Daily Observer).
• Ernst & Young on global cashless trends (EY Global).
• Sweden's new cash law takes effect January 1 (The Local).