• The search for the world's most beautiful banknote (Sydney Morning Herald).
• The UK's Clydesdale Bank's 5-Pound note is also in the running (British Plastics & Rubber). And here (BBC).
• The costs of printing paper money (The Nation).
• How Rezwan Razack got interested in banknotes, and other joys of currency collecting (BBC Capital).
•  SEMINAR: National bank notes at the Higgins Museum, July 27-28, 2016 (Coin World).
• Canada seeks a women on its next bank note (Bank of Canada). "Feel good feminism?" (National Post). Thinking about it gets complicated (Calgary Herald). Historians weigh in (CBC).
• There's already been a (non-Queen) woman on Canadian banknotes: Princess Patricia (National Post).
• Lucky Frank Barlow, banknote printer (Express).
• Nepal's highest court rules against "stitching and tearing" banknotes (The Himalayan).
• China's One-Yuan notes to be phased out (CRI English). Phasing out those notes may reflect censorship (Epoch Times).
• Profile of Fred Schwan (Port Clinton News-Herald).
• High-value currency produces high seigniorage (Coin World).
• Keeping women off U.S. Currency? (Rutgers Today).
• Fixing paper currency with tape? Don't do it! (Coin World). By our Wendell Wolka.
• Graphic artists and illustrators across Germany transform Euro notes (Website, in German). Numerous examples! And giving the Euro a face (time lapse video, University of Leipzig). Both links via Fabrizio Raponi at the IBNS Forum.
• Students tuning in to money creation (Positive Money).
• A paper money discovery at Montana State University (Bozeman Daily Chronicle).

• De La Rue's new five-pound note is due in June (Print Week).
• Ugra and security printing (Ugra.com).
• CONFERENCE: Reconnaissance High Security Printing, March 14-16, Bucharest Romania.

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• Count Victor Lustig, con man and counterfeiter (Smithsonian).
• India's strategy against fake money (One India).
• A rapper and his relations with the Secret Service (Daily Mail).Salty language, good pictures. And here (Billboard).  And "The Business of Fake Hollywood Money" (Priceonomics). This excellent discussion dates from July 2014, but I'm not sure that it's been posted here before.
• "Does adding more security features to paper money really prevent counterfeits?" (Quora).
• The state of Namibian counterfeiting (Informante).
• A bleached fiver became a hundred (Patch).
• They stored their fakes in a Gideon Bible (Moscow-Pullman Daily News).
• Quincy, Illinois police chief discusses counterfeiting (Herald-Whig).

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