News & Notes Volume II, No. 30

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

Rogoff: Curbing cash would help the poor (Bloomberg).
"Cash Has an Expiration Date" (El Pais, in English).
Doubts about polymer notes in Nigeria (The Nation).
The "temptations" of paper currency (The Quint).
More to-do about Commie Indonesian banknotes (Tempo).
An African crypto-currency (Tempo).
Blind, he handled paper currency, played horseshoes, and much else (Journal-Sentinel).
The banknotes of Jefferson City, Tenn. (Numismaster).
Britain's old fivers cease being legal tender on May 5th, 2017 (Birmingham Mail).
The Philippines extends the deadline for its old banknote redemption (Manila Standard).
Guatemala's 20-Quetzal note with new safety features (Steven Bron).
Venezuela's higher-denomination notes are now in circulation (Steven Bron).
Deadline for demonetizing Venezuela's 100-Bolivar notes extended to February 20 (Globo Vision, in Spanish).
Bangladeshi 5-taka note (Steven Bron).
Bahraini dinars with features for the visually-impaired (Gulf Digital News).
A semiotic analysis of Malaysian banknotes (Researchgate, pdf).
Getting by without money in Detroit (Bloomberg).
Support for a Scottish currency (Commonspace).
Cash hoards in their bedside drawers (Crawley and Horley Observer).
Some Rand notes are not like the others (The Tembisan).
Zimbabwe's ongoing U.S. dollar shortage (New Zimbabwe). Bond notes are already trading at a discount. Is the situation becoming easier? (The Standard).
Transporting Indian banknotes by air (Free Press Journal).
A new Solomon Islands $20 note (Solomon Islands Broadcasting Co.).
Archives International results (Artfix Daily).
New notes in demand for the Lunar New Year (South China Morning Post).

Analysts' downgrades of De La Rue (Daily Quint).
Indian government denies working with De La Rue (India Today).
The RBI lost track of how many notes it was printing (Huffington Post).
Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Europe, Baku Azerbaijan, March 27-29, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 19-21, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
Security Document World conference, London June 26-28, 2017 (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Great Britain's new fiver is already being counterfeited (Darlington & Stockton Times).
That "wash-wash" trick (Luxemburger Wort).
BOOK: Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (Google Books, with excerpts). Here is the publisher website (Princeton University Press).

(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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