News & Notes Volume I, No. 27 | SPMC

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

Sweden's cash-free future (New York Times). And the outlook for Canada (Chronicle Herald). And reaction from a libertarian perspective, a good roundup of recent opinion (People's Pundit Daily). And here is Part II, from the same source. Not so fast (Bayview News).
France wants to eliminate anonymous transactions (BTC Manager).
The future of money (Popular Science).
Russia's new commemorative banknote for the Crimea. Now all the place needs is some electricity (CNN Money). And here (Reuters). Russia will also issue a 100-Ruble note honoring the 2018 World Cup (Vestnik Kavkaza). And Ukraine's new 500-Hryvnia note (CoinWeek).
Unwanted, this New Zealand note sold for more than its face value (BBC).
Results of a recent Archives International Auction (Artfix Daily).
This year, the Irish Central Bank replaced all but 366 mutilated notes (Irish Times).
Israel's new 200-Shekel note enters circulation (Haaretz).
Islamic State demonetizes certain Syrian notes (Blog du CNA, in French)
Old Philippine banknotes become invalid on December 31 (Manila Bulletin).
What would Simon Bolivar have done to straighten out Venezuela's currency mess? (aporrea.org, in Spanish).
Profile of Nicholas Frederick Seebeck (Linn's Stamp News).
Maldive's new currency for 2016 (Haveeru).
State Bank of Pakistan will make securer notes (The News).
Australia's Securency scandal leads to tougher anti-bribery law (ABC).
Zimbabwe to use Chinese currency, uh huh (Washington Post).
Book: The Banknotes of Imperial Persia (ANS, via E-Sylum).
Why no more $1000 bills? (Marketplace, via E-Sylum).
When Santa was a bank (Bloomberg, via E-Sylum).

Fly, Don't Lie (Shanghaiist)

Global banknote printing report (Whatech).

She had too much cash (Shanghaiist). He kept his in a safe deposit box (Bristol Herald Courier).
Cash and crime in India (Huffpost India).
Counterfeit warning in the Philippines (Manila Bulletin).
The scope of counterfeiting in Mexico, especially by "El Benjamon" (Excelsior, in Spanish). How he used ATMs to change fake cash for real bills (24 Horas, in Spanish).

(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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