News & Notes Volume I, No. 50

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

New Cyprus restrictions on 500-Euro notes (Cyprus Mail).
A banknote autographed by Muhammad Ali (CBC News).
Is Churchill "grumpy"? (BBC). The Bank of England has its own website for the new bill (Design Week). The website is here (Bank of England). You can rotate an image of the note 360 degrees.
Is the £50 on the way out? (The Telegraph).
Composers on paper money (COINWeek).
Indonesia stocks up for Ramadan (Jakarta Post).
Bank of China commemorates 100 years in Hong Kong with a $100 note (The Standard).
The jew-killer on Ukraine's banknotes (The Jewish Chronicle).
A new Polish banknote (Radio Poland).
Pakistan to distribute currency via SMS messaging (The Nation).
A look back at the wooden money of Tenino (Thurston Talk).
Cash and Mexico's election cycle (Fusion).
A brief historical guide to England's currencies (The Anglotopia Magazine).
The Bank of Scotland's new polymer fiver (Daily Record).
Zimbabwe's central bank is forcing businesses to deposit their cash (News 24). And here (All Africa).
South Korea's bad attitude towards cash (Numismaster).
The 2016 Higgins Museum National Banknote Seminar (Numismaster).
Pakistan is retiring "old design" banknotes (Pakistan Observer).
Visual artist Lucia Nhamo and the Zim dollar (African Digital Art).
Hackney's Time Credit Notes (Crixeo). They are designed by the graffiti artist Stik.
University of Michigan's football recruit dons cash necklace (Detroit Free Press).
Archives International auction of Asian notes (Coin World). And New Jersey Nationals from Stack's Bowers (Coin World).
Civil War 'Scrip Mates' (E-Sylum).
Chop marks on paper money (E-Sylum).
BOOK: Lucky Bucks and Comic Play Money from Depression Era Newspapers (E-Sylum)

A primer on polymers (Forbes).
The pros and cons of polymer notes, from a retail point of view (Essential Retail).
Polymer Opals and their application to banknote production (Tech Times).
The new British fiver is 'Made in Wigton' (in Cumbria). With Innovia's polymer substrate (Cumbria Crack). Fears that they might stick together (News & Star).
De La Rue is interested in joint ventures (Print Week).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

A monkey steals cash from the register (The Quint).
95% of Somali currency in circulation is fake (Geeska Afrika). And here (Bloomberg).
Caught smuggling currency out of Zimbabwe (The Herald).
Cash confusion in Malta (Malta Independent).
North Korean counterfeits (Numismaster).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates).
Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates).
Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
Scotsbanknotes
Counting on Currency (Industry website).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
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.).
Where's George? (currency tracking project).
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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