News & Notes Volume II, No. 47

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

Switzerland's new 20-Franc note (Bloomberg). And here (Steven Bron).
The costs of currency conversions (FiveThirtyEight). Highly interesting.
Norway's new banknote series (Norges Bank).
Nicaraguan poet on a banknote (Coin World).
India's Zero Rupee note (Youtube, video).
Mombasa's Bangla-Pesa (Youtube, video with subtitles).
A Stasi informer's travel documents (Our Passports).
Managing cannabis cash (North Bay Business Journal).
The U.S. paper one dollar bill isn't going anywhere soon (E-Sylum).
More about Maldive's 5-rufiyaa note (Steven Bron).
Processing cash at the SF Federal Reserve Bank facility outside Seattle (Puget Sound Business Journal).
A new Swiss cantonal currency, the "farinet" (The Local).
A piece of Kentucky history (The Advocate Messenger).
Sir Thomas Brisbane's banknote (Brisbane Times).
All about Bitcoin (New York Times).
A Palestinian digital currency (Middle East Confidential).
Autographed currency at auction (Coin World).
The end of currency? (Fox Business).
The market for bond notes in Mozambique (News Day). And Zimbabwe's ongoing cash shortage worsens (Zimbabwe Daily). "Unscrupulous" exports (Bulawayo 24).
New and improved IPMS (Coin World).
NEW BOOK: Latvian Banknotes (Numismaster).

PROGRAM for the ongoing Currency Conference in Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference). Many interesting links.
Giesecke & Devrient's Currency Technology (Giesecke & Devrient).
Trends in the polymer banknote industry (WhaTech).
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).

The dangers of snorting coke with new polymer notes (Daily Mail).
In Papua New Guinea, retired banknotes have been hijacked (Post-Courier).
Notre Dame scholars examine counterfeiting in colonial America (Notre Dame Research). And here (Phys.org)
This victim of a "black money" scam gets no refund herself (Malta Today).
Somewhere, there's a moral here for effective criminality (Daily Star).
Pope Francis on counterfeiting and the spread of evil (Vatican Radio). See 6th paragraph of the transcription.

(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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