News & Notes Volume I, No. 24 | SPMC

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

U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios on a prospective female 10 dollar bill (Columbia Spectator).
Scotland needs a scientist on its money (Eyewitness News).
Political intrigue encoded on a banknote (BBC).
A 1000-Yuan note? Not likely (ECNS).
Overseas Filipino Workers get a break (GMA News). Still, someone's going to get a short haircut (Enquirer).
The banknote that was actually a coin (Die Welt, in German).
Kazakhstan's new 20,000 Tenge Note (The Astana Times).
The anti-Japanese origins of the Renminbi (The Asahi Shimbun).
Where banknotes go to die (ECNS).
In Guinea, people like their francs crisp (The New York Times).
It's sterling, but then again it isn't. This unnecessary controversy continues (BelfastLive). He's right, but still a bit unpleasant about it (Irish Post).
Has cash met its Waterloo? Not so fast (Reuters). "The Abba musem in Stockholm only takes cards and electronic payments, because cash facilitates crimes 'from murder to bicycle theft'". The downside of a world without cash (The Scotsman). And more about the death of currency (Oye! Times).
Israeli note identity politics, continued (Coin World).
A happy couple on Czechoslovak money (Prague Post).
The new Chinese 100 Yuan note is still causing problems (Beijing Today).
Why ISIS likes gold (CNN Money).
Exploring the art of money (Huffington Post).
The D.C. Metro is no longer using paper fare cards (The Washington Post).

A Monetary Mortuary (ECNS)

De La Rue's production cuts (BBC). And more here (The Telegraph). And here (The Wall Street Journal). The company is cutting its printing capacity as global transactions shift away from cash, and is positioning itself in the identity document business.

Fake notes for fake votes (Jakarta Post).
They were for the tourists (Bangkok Post).
Some warning signs of Christmas cheer (Bury Times).
Fake £50 notes a problem in Exeter (Express & Echo).

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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