News & Notes Volume II, No. 22

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

Archives International auction of Chinese banknotes (ARTFIX Daily).
New notes from Myanmar, sometime in the future (Coconuts Yangon).
New Norwegian banknotes for 2017 (Norges Bank). 50 through 1000-Krone denominations. More here, with video [in Norwegian, with English subtitles] (The Local).
Cuba's dual currency (Linn's Stamp News).
Guinea to retire old 5000-franc notes by the end of the year (Guinee News, in French).
Venezuela to limit bank withdrawals to 10,000 bolivares a day (El Nacional, in Spanish). And here (PanAm Post, in English).
Hungary to issue new 2000 and 5000 forint banknotes in 2017 (Szabolcs Oniine, in Hungarian).
Pictures of Colombia's new 2000 peso note (Blu Radio, text in Spanish). And here (Secura Monde International).
Kazakhstan's new commemorative 10,000 tenge note (Stevenbron).
A 'conversational' protest over impending Zim bond notes (News 24).
Lessons for India from previous episodes of demonetization (Business Insider). And here (South China Morning Post).
A design competition for Egyptian currency (Egyptian Streets).
Banknote-themed birthday cakes (Deccan Herald).
A history of bank-hating (The Week).
$5,000 will get you $64,625 (Coin World).
An Indian village creates its own paper currency (India Times).
Paper money and trust in government: America vs. Sweden (Business Insider).
A local currency for Barcelona? (el Pais, in English). It may be both physical and digitial.

Upcoming Reconnaissance High Security Printing Asia Conference program is here (Reconnaissance)
De La Rue to keep its printing facility in Malta open (Malta Today).
De La Rue's outlook is good (the Northern Echo).
India's plastic notes (The Telegraph). Its history of promoting banknote self-sufficiency (Scroll.in). The demonetization move is a boost for mobile payments systems (IBS Intelligence).
More pigment needed for printing India's new notes (The Indian Express).
"The Secret World of Indian Currency Printers" (Zero Hedge). With a grain of salt.
Reconnaissance High Security Printing Asia Conference, December 5-7. Singapore (Reconnaissance)
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

"Massive" counterfeiting bust in Peru (CBS News, via E-Sylum).
Rare silver certificate stolen (Numismatic Crime Information Center)
Why Modi's move may have been motivated by the counterfeiting problem (National Interest).

(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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