News & Notes Volume II, No. 40

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

It took India 33 airplane flights to move 604 tons of notes (IBT).
India: no plans to issue Rs 5000 or Rs 10000 notes (NDTV).
The origins of security engraving (Coin World).
Cash Culture: a history (WNPR, podcast).
When Scotland leaves the Pound (Express)
"Gift Cards as Currency" (Forbes).
Designing Norway's banknotes, part 4 (Youtube video). In Norwegian w/ English subtitles. Entire series is view-worthy.
This is a motivational exercise? (Asia One, video).
Argentina's worthless banknotes (El Pais, in English).
Knight auction included French emergency scrip (Numismatic News).
Zimbabwe's "fiction" money (The Star). Maybe they should rely more on the Rand (Bloomberg).
Rumors of new Brunei currency (Borneo Bulletin).
Currency substitutes in Venezuela (Heat Street).
The "Hail Satan" bill? (Snopes).
A "hard fork" in the Bitcoin market? (Business Insider).
Will India get rid of its new Rs 2000 note? (Daily O).
New Nicaraguan 1000-cordoba note (Banknote News). And here (Secura Monde).
The Serbian chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
The BEP is now on Twitter and Facebook (Bureau of Engraving and Printing).
In the Gambia, a call to get rid of the tyrant's face (Freedom Newspaper).
In the Philippines, extended deadline for banknote replacement (BSP).
NEW BOOK: Collecting Florida banknotes (E-Sylum).
NEW BOOK: SCWPM, Modern Issues, 23rd ed. (E-Sylum).
Chinese city bans burning joss money (Nextshark).

Outlook for Koenig & Bauer (What They Think?).
Outlook for the security ink market (Nasdaq GlobeNewswire).
"Branded currency" (Silicon Prairie News).
De La Rue downgrade (Community Financial News).
Indian lawsuit against De La Rue over security paper complaints (NYOOOZ).
Reconnaisance 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).

I'd have been nervous, too (NL Times).
Smuggled cash inside tortilla dough (KGUN-9).
Stopping "currency abuse" in Nigeria (The Nigerian Observer).
Protecting Trump diverts Secret Service anti-counterfeiting funds (Business Insider).
Italian currency firm and the Panama Papers (The Indian Express).
Uzbeki crackdown on illegal currency traders (EURASIANET).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
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 Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
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).
Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
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).
Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
PYMNTS.com (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).
De La Rue (Company website).
Secura Monde International (Company website). Good banknote news feed.
Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
Patronus Systems (Company 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)
French Banknotes of War (Collector's website). Abundant material in English and French.
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Guild of Independent Currencies (promotes local currencies in the U.K.)
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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