• Yale students protest their university president by showering him with $1 million bills (Yale Daily News). At issue is whether Yale would rename Calhoun College. Students also seem to have it in for Ben Franklin.
• Germans resist the idea of abolishing the 500-Euro note (Bloomberg).
• Canada's shortlist for which woman will appear on Canadian currency (CBC). Of the twelve, three are from Quebec (CBC).
• Cartoon strip traces the ins and outs of the Harriet Tubman choice (xkcd).
• Australia vs. New Zealand, as far as their $5 notes go (Stuff.co).
• The struggle to keep Venezuela supplied with currency, and what happens to all the old notes once their value is inflated away? (New American).Venezuela can't afford its own money (Bloomberg). 
• Profile of John Law, bankrupter of France (The Scotsman).
• Indonesia's central bank denies issuing a Rp 200,000 note (Tempo). And here (Coconuts Jakarta). Pictures of the fantasy note are circulating on social media.
• Why no "Noty McNoteface"? (Chronicle Live).
• Changes to the Singapore Dollar? (Today).
• A missing Audubon banknote engraving (Seeker).
• A feminist take on women on banknotes (The Guardian).
• The promising future of cash in Africa (Quartz Africa).
• "Why Digital Money Hasn't Killed Cash" (New Yorker). Three reasons why cash isn't going away (The Street.com).
• Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe sued for not doing its job (All Africa). Zimbabwe's cash famine worsens (News Day).
• Seeking to withdraw cash, she got sheets of stamps instead (NY Daily News).
• History of the Nickel is bound up with the currency turmoil of the Civil War (Smithsonian).
• DISSERTATION: Raja M. Ali Saleem, "Effect of Islam's Role in State Nationalism on the Islamization of Government: Case Studies of Turkey and Pakistan" PhD Dissertation, George Mason University, 2015.  This dissertation uses banknote imagery as an indicator to measure Islam's role in state nationalism in Turkey and Pakistan (Proquest). Full text available through Proquest's Dissertations and Theses database.
• THESIS: Christine Garnier, "A Question of Value: The Problem of Natural, National, and Native Origins in the Currency Paintings of John Haberle" MA Thesis, Tufts University, 2015 (Proquest). This thesis interprets John Haberle's trompe l'oeil paintings of money in the context of 19th century American controversies about value. While the full text of this is also available through Proquest's Dissertations and Theses database, I have no descriptive link for the thesis. However, I do have a biographical link for  the author, Christine Garnier, who is currently a doctoral student at Harvard.
• BOOK: SCWPM, Modern Issues, 22nd edition (Numismaster).

     Protesters at Yale University throw $1 million notes (Alex Zhang at the Yale Daily News)

• U.S. banknote production for March 2016 (CoinNews).
• JOB OPENING: Currency Technology Officer, BEP (ExecutiveGov).
• Some Indian notes without security threads, oops (Financial Express).
• The inventor of the cash dispensing machine, James Goodfellow, didn't cash in on his invention (The Guardian).
• New Zealand's $5, newly honored by the IBNS, uses Innovia's polymer substrate (Cumbria Crack). And it was designed by a master engraver at the Canadian Banknote Company (CBC).
• 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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• Forging quantum money (Cornell University). Technical paper, pdf available.
• Benjamin Franklin's anti-counterfeiting system (KOMO News).
• Fighting counterfeiting in the afterlife (Quartz).
• North Korea threatens China (The Korea Times).
• Latvian police, working with the U.S. Secret Service, bust up a counterfeiting ring in Riga (Osundefender).
• Philippine's central bank (BSP) reminds people not to mutilate the currency, especially during an election season (The Visayan Daily Star)."The BSP called on politicians to not staple peso bills to sample ballots or other campaign materials as it is a sign of defacement and disrespect to the currency." And be wary of fakes during election times (Cebu Daily News).
• Middle-school student in Houston used a real $2 bill to buy chicken nuggets, cafeteria workers thought it was fake (Patch).
• A roundup of motion picture money incidents (Bring Me the News).

                  Fantasy Rp 200,000 notes on Indonesian social media (Coconuts Jakarta)