News & Notes Volume II, No. 24

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

"It's a f*****g £5 note!" More Scottish currency is refused in England (Daily Mail, with video).
Polymer notes are cleaner, carry less bacteria (The Sun).
Who wants to be a Serbian billionaire? (Vice).
Do you know these women? (BBC).
The International Bank Note Society makes Bloomberg (Bloomberg).
Georgia thinks its 50-GEL note is in the running (Georgia Today). "The Oscars of Paper Currency" (Kazakh TV). The finalists (Quartz).
Venezuela likes big notes and it cannot lie (International Business Times). More here (BBC).
The Zoquito, the Turtura, the Puma, and more (El Pais, in English).
Latest Archives International auction (COINWeek).
The Philippine's "Victory" note (Numismatic News).
Turn a dollar bill into the White House? There's an app for that (BGR).
Federal court: "In God We Trust" stays on the currency (Christian News). This guy again.
He started the petition to make the fiver a vegan note (Metro). It now has 120,000 signatures. Could it be banned in Hindu temples? (Metro). "It's stupid. It's absolutely stupid." (IBS Intelligence). One vegan cafe is refusing to accept the notes (News Hub).
At least these new Rs. 20 and 50 notes won't demonetize the old ones (The Hindu).
In Zimbabwe, "all hell will break loose." (Zim Eye).
No change to Vietnam's currency (Vietnamnet).
Kohl's cash rant (Detroit Free Press).
A "money kite" from the Weimar era (Steven Bron).

Indian printer botched the signature change (Quint).
Royal Joh. Enschedé to stop printing banknotes (Steven Bron).
De La Rue's new Seychelles banknotes (De La Rue).
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).

A chain of chemists (drugstores) bans the Scottish fiver out of fears of counterfeits (The Herald Scotland).
Swindled by plain paper (Times of India). And India's demonetization has made fake notes worthless (News Nation). Laundering black money (The New Indian Express).

(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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