News & Notes Volume I, No. 22 | SPMC

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

China will only make global warming worse by doing this (Daily Mail). And here (CRI English).
Please, use them. They're real. Really (Yibada). And more publicity about the new 100-Yuan banknote (CCTV).
Israel's new, blue, note (The Jerusalem Post).
A loan from a kind stranger (ejinsight).
An Illustrated history of American money design (Gizmodo).
Auction results from Stack's Bowers (Coin World).
A useful list of banknote personalities, by country (Wikipedia).
A new Omani commemorative (CoinWeek). I wish I'd had something like this for my 45th birthday (Times of Oman).
This passes for news in Lithuania. Still, it's good news all the same (DELFI-The Lithuania Tribune).
They call for a real woman, and not just a queen, on their currency (National Post). I had a black Labrador too, so I support this (Metro).
On the hazards of banknote advocacy. This story is slightly old, but worth remembering (Huffpost.uk).
Legal tender neither in England, nor in Scotland (The National).
Press release on Iraqi's 50,000 banknote (FPRC).

Shredded and Repurposed Chinese Banknotes (CFP)

A banknote security alliance (SecuringIndustry). And also here (Market Wired).
De La Rue and its sorting machines (Financial Times). And here (Yahoo! Finance).
Tenders invited for India's currency ink (PrintWeek). Mysuru's ink may appear on Indian currency (The New Indian Express).
The future of security substrates . For all the talk about ending cash, the future looks good (Printing News).
De La Rue's stock is in the dumps (FinancialMagazin).
More on that UK polymer substrate in Wigton (Packaging News).

"Cynical and mean" crimes involving banknotes (News Letter).
Prepare for the holidays, ho ho ho (The Bolton News).
He paid fake banknotes for fake sex (ejinsight).
Stealing banknotes did her in (Irish Times).

Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
"Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes)
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
Scotsbanknotes
Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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