News & Notes Volume II, No. 44

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

"A sort of Canadian Mount Rushmore" (Montreal Gazette). And Sir John's haircut (Yahoo News).
IBNS's Banknote of the Year (Bloomberg).
PNG's new 5-Kina note (Banknote News).
Fiji's Olympic $7 note (Fiji Times). And a Kiwi connection to Fiji's note (Otago Daily Times). From Steven Bron (Steven Bron).
No, they are not 'indestructible' (The Sun).
Mootz was there to find Nazi currency, and more (Milford Chronicle).
The psychology of reform spawned by the Panic of 1837 (The Nation).
Learn about Emperor Norton through the Newman Numismatic Portal (E-Sylum).
IPMS speaker schedule (E-Sylum).
Micro-engraved fiver goes to the Austen Museum (E-Sylum).
Looking at banknotes under ultraviolet light (Coin Talk, via E-Sylum).
An Australian short snorter (The Northern Star, via E-Sylum).
A coinless, rather than cashless, South Korea (BBC, via E-Sylum).
Cool Currency! video (COINWeek).
Buddhist monks and money (Economy).
A very special error (Coin World).
Seriously, do you even lift? (Numismatic News).
A Spalding note up for auction (Spalding Today).
High-denomination Yuan notes go for high prices (Numismatic News).
Reform, not bond notes, for Zimbabwe (New Zimbabwe). Lacking paper notes, Zimbabwean banks hand out sacks of coins (Bulawayo 24 News).
"I’m Penny, a stencil artist from London, specializing in tiny acts of treason on banknotes." (StreetArt News).
Piles of cash are turning up around Nigeria (BBC).
Venezuela extends the deadline on 100-Bolivar notes (Sputnik).
The Swiss money trail to India (The Telegraph).
"Cash is King No More" (New York TImes).
New Maldives polymer note (Sun).
Can travelers' checks go bad? (This is Money)
Twenty things non-collectors don't know about dollar bills (CBS News).

U.S. banknote production: more is better (CoinNews).
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).

How to tell Canada's new $10 isn't fake (CBC).
Busted for 600m counterfeit Rupiah (The Jakarta Post).
New rules on EU currency declarations (European Commission).
International Council for Tangible Assets task force to fight counterfeiting (Numismatic News). With gumshoe Joe Boling. And here (Coin Update News).
Fakes to the tune of $100 trillion (The Oregonian).
Caught with $43 million in cash, this Nigerian official was only suspended (Foreign Policy) "Oops."

(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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