News & Notes Volume II, No. 52

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

When a U.S. Treasury official tooted his own horn (Atlas Obscura).
Help! My kid buries his loot like a pirate (Time).
What Singapore's currency says about Singapore (Asia One).
'Cologne de Cash' (Daily Mail).
Some auction highlights of the Kansas City IPMS (Coin World).
A history of Western Union (Bloomberg).
The social and moral meanings of money (Los Angeles Review of Books).
New Madagascar note series (Banknote News).
Myanmar ups its game (Myanmar Business Today). So does Paraguay (MRI Bankers' Guide).
Mozambique freshens up its banknotes (APA News).
Venezuelans turn to cryptocurrencies (Coin Telegraph).
A poor man, but rich in currency (The Hindu).
Bangladesh adds security threads (Steven Bron).
Ootje Oxenaar, Dutch banknote designer (Steven Bron).
Sri Lanka's central bank will no longer accept defaced currency (Daily Mirror).
This zero-Euro note celebrates the Kiel-based training ship "Gorch Fock" (Kieler Nachrichten, in German).

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).

Corruption festers in Zimbabwe (The Standard).
How computer printers keep track of you (Quartz).

(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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