News & Notes Volume II, No. 10

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

Introducing the new currency to rural Liberia (Front Page Africa).
Dutch authorities on local currencies (De Nederlandsche Bank).
Paying with cash invests you emotionally in the transaction (Globe and Mail).
Gibraltar's first polymer banknote (Gibraltar Chronicle). And here (GBC).
The Argentines and their love for cash (Bloomberg). And who can blame them.
Heritage Auction results, including a 1934 FRN (Numismatic News).
At the height of the celebration, a rain of cancelled currency in Obendorf am Neckar (Schwarzwaelder Bote, in German).
Tie-up between NGC, MA-Shops (COINWeek).
"The Sinister Side of Cash", by Kenneth Rogoff (Wall Street Journal). An interview with Rogoff (Princeton University Press). Fulmination against the "esteemed ivory tower academic" at Zero Hedge (Zero Hedge).
So there is a 'banknote-coin boundary' (Coin World).
Twenty years of slabbing (Coin World).
The Hungarian Forint celebrates its 70th birthday (We Love Budapest). The exhibition is put on by the Central Bank of Hungary, and will be at Corvinus University through September 30, 2016.
A brief history of the $100 trillion Zim Dollar (Great American Coin Co.)
Malik Tahir Suleman, collector (Images).
WEBSITE: French Banknotes of War.
Retrospective on British currency (This is Money).
Primer on local money (The News Hub). By Paul Glover, founder of the defunct Ithaca HOUR program. And social currency (Fastcoexist).
Money, Money, Money! (The Historical New Orleans Collection) And a presentation on "Currency Collecting in the 21st Century" by curator Erin M. Greenwald, scheduled for October 15, 2016.
Survey of Mormon coins and currency (KSL). And this about the Kirtland Safety Society, originally published in 1992 (Brigham Young University).
A video tutorial on how to photoshop portraits onto paper currency (Photoshop Roadmap).
BOOK: Polymer Bank Notes of the World, 2016 edition, by Stane Straus et al. (Polymer Notes, via E-Sylum).
Hidden Messages of J.S.G. Boggs (E-Sylum).
D. B. Cooper ransom money for sale (Lori Ferber, via E-Sylum).
Bank of Persia notes to be offered by Stack's Bowers (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
Thomas Paine, Sound Money Man (Cato Institute).
Ming Dynasty banknote up for auction with Archives International (News-Antique).

Innovia's new polymer bank note plant (in Cumbria).
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
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).

That's $3 million in cash that won't get to Mexico (UPI).
Counterfeiting in the Bay Area (San Francisco Business Times).
Fake currency detector Android app (Youtube, video).
MOVIE: The Counterfeiters (2007) (IMBd).
Counterfeiting and international law (Quora).
PRESENTATION: The Evolution of Financial Crime, London, Ontario, September 22, 2016 (Credit Institute of Canada).
The Real Business of Fake Movie Money (How Stuff Works). Includes a nice clip from "Rush Hour 2"
Mississippi man tries to pay parking fines with fake money, duh (Sun Herald).
"Foreign Spies" are after Poland's bank note printer (Radio Poland).
A plea for help, scrawled on a banknote, led to the unraveling of a scam (ECNS).

(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
Ink World Magazine (Ink World).
Middle East Printer (MEprinter). Website homepage.
Let's Talk Payments (LTP). Fintech website homepage.

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