• Sour grapes about Hamilton staying on the $10 note (Slate). And concerns that Treasury will backtrack (Time). Women will have to wait until 2030 for the new $20 (Bustle).
• Jefferson on the $2 bill (Crave).
• Commemorative 100 Dongs are in demand (Tuoitrenews).
• The one-Yuan note isn't going anywhere soon (Ecns).
• Australia's new $5 note (PSnews). It is not liked by many (CNN). "Why it's so hard to draw The Queen" (The Guardian).
• Asian countries getting rid of coins, but not necessarily in favor of paper (Hawaii Public Radio).
• The Russian public will have input into new Ruble banknotes (The Moscow Times).
• In India, cash is still king (Live Mint).
• Preparing for the new five pound note (Professional Jeweler).
• Highlights of the upcoming Heritage auction (Coin World).
• A stranger handed out money to baffled customers (Gazette Live).
• The ECB may want to retire the 500-Euro note (Independent). And Asian countries are also moving away from large notes (The Nation).
• Australia's controversial new fiver (The Sydney Morning Herald).
• Spink's million-Pound banknote (Spink & Sons, via E-Sylum).

• Security printing and emerging markets (Ground Report).
• Three KOMSCO secrets that obviously aren't secrets anymore (The Korea Times).
• Cyber-Duck will create the website for the new £5 note (Finextra).
• Security Document World (SDW) 2016 Conference, London, 10-12 May (SDW).
• Smithers Pira at the SDW (SDW).
• Innovia exits the cellophane business (in-Cumbria).
• Analysts like De La Rue (Risers & Fallers). As well as Spectra Systems (Riverside Gazette).
• The counterfeit money detector market (Digital Journal).
• Developments in the hologram industry (SecureID News).
• The Banknote Conference, May 23-26, Washington D.C. (Banknote Conference) Here is a description of the presentations to be made there.
• 4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).

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• Counterfeit New Zealand note used ordinary tape (Stuff.com).
• Missing Yuan in China (COINWeek).
• The U.S. will help Taiwan detect counterfeits (Focus Taiwan).
• Moral: Don't keep pictures of your cash on your phone (Ars Technica).
• After thirteen years, he's still trying to get his "shoebox cash" back from the government (Chicago Sun-Times). It's clear who the criminal is here.
• A survey of Chinese money laundering (World Politics Review). And counterfeits from North Korea (Strategy Page). Still, the Chinese are no slouches when it comes to faking their own currency (South China Morning Post).
• Fake rupees from Pakistan (The Hindu).
• Good fakes passing in Illawarra, Australia (Illawarra Mercury).
• He used "movie money" to buy gas (WFMJ). And another use of prop money in Beaver Dam (Daily Citizen). And in Waterloo, Iowa (Herald & Review).

            All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my closeup (Beaver Dam Daily Citizen)