News & Notes Volume I, No. 25 | SPMC

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

Money machines think the new 20 Euro is counterfeit, as they did the new 100 Yuan note (Kronen-Zeitung).
More on the life of Albert Pick (CoinsWeekly).
Lucky Money for the Year of the Monkey (Vietnam.net).
Thai and Kiwi notes share a regional award (Bangkok Post).
The rewards of honesty--and patience (BT.com). And here (Reuters).
Sandy McTire soldiers on, but for how long? (RCI).
A Confederate banknote company left its name (Coin World).
When a psychotic person burns paper money (ECNS).
The politics of language on Nigerian currency (pulse.com).
What to do with your old banknotes? (Manila Bulletin). And the Philippines' coinage plans (Numismaster).
Goodbye to Bulgaria's 1 Lev notes (Sofia News Agency).
The Hawaii notes of World War II (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
Civil War envelopes (National Geographic).
Maldive's "Golden Jubilee" banknote commemorative (The Presidency).
Hungary's new 20,000 Forint banknotes (Hungary Today).
Mao now has two left eyebrows, and someone's going to get rich. (South China Morning Post).
Sweden and the "War on Cash" (Business Insider).
It's all about the Yuckichis--and the politics of history (Nikkei Asian Review).
Better change those old notes now (Zambia Daily Mail).
An exhibition of Kazakhstan's currency (Kazinform).

It will be the Year of the Monkey (Vietnam.net)

If these notes were from a motion picture, it must've been a porno (newsminer.com, via E-Sylum). And more use of prop money at a Westfield, MA mall (Mass Live).
Unfolding of a Ugandan scheme (wtae.com).
Jubilee counterfeiters (ANSA).
Counterfeit anti-counterfeiters. It's not about money or currency specifically, but the example still should make you think (ABC News).

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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