News & Notes Volume I, No. 52

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

Have negative interest rates in Europe led to the hoarding of physical cash? (Brookings). No--at least not yet.
The United States keeps its $100 bill (Newsmax).
Keeping Harriet Tubman off the $20? (Huffington Post).
Two additions to the ANA's Hall of Fame (Coin Update News).
Ohio exempts numismatic purchases from sales tax (COINWeek).
The loved, but least useful, $2 note (Coin World).
More on Australia's polymer pioneer (The Chemical Engineer, via E-Sylum).
Sweden's cash-free future (Nordic Business Insider).
International Paper Money Show moves to Kansas City (Coin World).
Taiwan's central bank to auction banknotes with auspicious serial numbers (Focus Taiwan).
Nepal's banknote for the visually impaired (Kathmandu Post)
Khmer currency over time (The Phnom Penh Post).
It was raining money in Providence (Boston Globe).
Dealing with Zimbabwe's liquidity crisis (Zimbabwe Independent). " Bond notes are but a precursor and a chameleonic [sic] way of re-introducing the Zim dollar." Zimbabwe now lacks the cash to pay its military (ABC News).
Mauritius to revamp its currency in 2017, removing political figures (Le Defi Media Group, in French).
Maryland 'Black Money' notes at auction (Coin World).
Online museum of Indian coins, stamps, and currency (Mintage World).
A new "Swiss Finance Museum" for 2017 (CoinsWeekly). This will also house the collection"Wertpapierwelt".
Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) spiffs up its website (Coinbooks.org).
BOOK: Whitman's Guide Book of United States Paper Money, 5th edition (COINWeek).

Cummins-Allison's new banknote scanner (prwire).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, 2016, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

This Argentine official hid bags of cash at a monastery (abc news).
Another article about fake Indian currency (India Times).
Burning Dong in Da Nang (tuoitrenews).
He swears the bundles of cash are for Ramadan (africanews).
The Eurion Constellation (Digg). Youtube video explaining why you can't photocopy money.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
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).
Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
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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