News & Notes Volume I, No. 30 | SPMC

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

Because of inflation, Argentina will introduce higher-denomination notes (Reuters).
High-denomination euro notes are re-entering circulation in Greece (ekathimerini.com). They're being "de-mattressed".
Vietnamese money changers are charging higher prices for new notes for the upcoming Tet holiday (Viet Nam News).
Women on American currency, all but one example on obsoletes (Coin World).
The 2016 Istanbul Money Fair (Hurriyet Daily News).
Airstrikes against ISIS leaves millions in currency "fluttering in the breeze" (New York Daily News).
The push for more women on Canadian bills (Nanaimo News Bulletin). Canada's Finance Minister Morneau would be in favor of it (Bloomberg). Social media suggest some possibilities (CBC News).
A petition to get David Bowie on Britain's 20-Pound note (Huffington Post). There are also petitions to rename the planet Mars after him, also to issue commemorative stamps (Mashable). The Bank of England says no (Newsweek). But would Bowie himself have even appreciated the honor? (The News Hub).
Colonial-era lottery tickets (ANS, via E-Sylum).
A presentation on Michigan's "Iron Money" (Upper Michigan's Source).
More on that latest lawsuit to get rid of "In God We Trust" (Patheos).
"In God We Trust". How did it get there? (Time).
"Cruel Christians" leave fake $20 proselytizing tips (Patheos)
Musings about U.S. currency (The Motley Fool).
Stratagems for avoiding negative interest rates, besides holding cash (The Economist).
"Keep your stash. Paper cash is here to stay" (Orange County Register). “Cash is the only fully democratic way of payment...Anybody can use cash and anybody can accept cash without it costing them anything. And right now there is no other form of payment like it that does not require a bank account.”
A Chinese company making "false paper money" wants to list on the stock market (China Daily)
Chinese man pays for his car with small notes. 'Because I have too much loose change, many banks refuse to exchange for me or they treated me very coldly. I think about how to spend this money every day.' Banks don't seem very friendly towards coin hoards, either (Daily Mail, via E-Sylum).
Contrary to what you'd think, Millennials like cash (Chron).
NEW BOOK: Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money, Vol. 6 (E-Sylum).
What dad shredded, the son glued back together (CRI English).

That is some nasty-looking cash (Daily Mail)

Fort Worth's "Money Factory" (CBS).
nanoPay acquires MintChip (Crypto Coin News).
Profile of Leonhard Kurz Stiftung Co. (Central Banking.com)
Central Banking awards 2016 (Central Banking.com)

Canada's new polymer currency is stumping counterfeiters (CBC News)
They paid their lawyer with the cash they'd stolen (Times of India).
The rapper who had too much cash (Bitcoin News Service). "I'm a millionaire. How can I not have $200,000 on me?"
Some good Rand fakes in South Africa (News 24). And phony US Dollars and Euros found in Kenya (News 24).
A New Jersey check counterfeiter (PIX 11).
A brother and sister used their "home made" money at Walmart (The Mountain Advocate).

(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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