Things to Read While You're in Self-Quarantine 

           --Each week News & Notes brings you material from around The Web with paper money content--

                  Symbols and Imagery on Paper Money​​

• Symbols on American money (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia).
• "Hidden Turtles and Rude Gestures" (National Museum of American History).
• Decoding North Korean banknotes (URI Tours). From 2019.
• "The Liberty Cap and its Many Depictions on Money" , by David Lok (The Banknote Den).
• "Money as Mass Communication", by Josh Lauer (University of New Hampshire). Originally published in The Communication Review, 2008.
• "The Language of Nigerian Money" (The New Yorker). From 2015.
• The rules for reproducing banknote images, by nation (Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group).

     Currency Coming and Going​

• A message of hope, written on a banknote (Jewish News).
• Estonian art installation dispenses alternative banknotes (ERR).
• Archaeologists vs. Numismatists (Coinweek). A call to arms (Coinweekly). And here (E-Sylum).
• Sotheby's vs. Greece (Coinsweekly).
• IBNS book and literary awards for 2019 (E-Sylum).
• Centralia, Washington wants to get in on the wooden money act (The Daily Chronicle, via E-Sylum).
• Lebanon reverts to barter (Gulf News).
• Don't disinfect your currency this way (Khaleej Times).

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Banknotes dispensed by the Estonian street artist, Edward von Lõngus (ERR).