News & Notes Volume II, No. 51

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

Rappers are down on the Benjamins (National Post).
Zimbabwe seeks to monetize diamonds (Mining News).
Novelists on banknotes (Mental Floss).
Chinese companies issue commemorative banknote on the occasion of EXPO 2017 (The Astana Times).
Seeking to preserve India's demonetized notes for collector posterity (The Hindu, via E-Sylum).
Georgia's new 5 Lari note (COINWeek). Also here, with video link, in Georgian (Banknote News). Similar background here (Steven Bron).
Bangladeshi notes to get enhanced security features (NTV).
New and improved Albanian notes for 2019 (News-H24).
World's largest banknote (What's On).
Commemorating a polymer factory on Canada's $10 note (IF Press).
Fifty years of the Singapore Dollar (Mothership). The Singapore dollar over the years (Today).
Operation Goldfinger (New Yorker). Not about paper money, but fascinating.
The Stradivarius Collection (Numismatic News).
This hungry animal got his goat (NDTV).
The BEP's Mutilated Currency Division (Atlas Obscura, via E-Sylum).
Reddit thread: All Things Paper Money (Reddit).
Coin Community thread: World Paper Money and Banknotes (Coin Community).
Bank of Ireland to proliferate cash-free branches (The Irish Times).
Currency exchange for Scottish beer money (Glasgow Times, via E-Sylum). Funny video, captions definitely are necessary.

Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 19-21, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

How can people be fooled by this stuff? (WFMJ)
Cash and corruption (The Atlantic).

(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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