News & Notes, Volume II No. 9

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

PREDICTION: Zimbabwean bond notes will be 'worthless' (News 24). Production is imminent (The Zimbabwe Daily), "...the central bank could not trigger a more panicked reaction if it flung a hyperinflation-crazed cat in a dove house made of $100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar notes." More protests (FSRN).
A plywood monument to the 200 Ruble banknote (Realnoe vremya)
Egypt's banknote issues increase (Daily News Egypt). And also in Korea (Yonhap News Agency).
The old Canadian Bank Note building (Kitchissippi Times).
Report on the World's Fair of Money (Coin World).
The role of $100 bills in Olympics gymnastics (SB Nation).
Inside the Charlotte Federal Reserve Branch (Charlotte Observer).
With the spread of negative interest rates, savers are investing in vaults (CNBC)
Colombia to issue note featuring Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Finance Colombia).
Belarus was so used to paper currency that reintroducing coins proved dangerous (Radio Free Europe).
TO BE AUCTIONED: A Jewish ghetto banknote signed by Oskar Schindler (PR Newswire).
New A$5 to be released on Wattle Day (Canberra Times).
A helicopter drop of cash stunt didn't go as planned (WNCN).
In the wake of the coup attempt, dollar bills are suddenly unpopular in Turkey (Al Monitor, via E-Sylum).
BOOK: The Ecuador Register, Part IV (E-Sylum).
The Central Bank of Barbados (Website).
Why you still need cash (Time). The movement away from cash (The Economist).
Profile of J.S.G. Boggs (Coin World, via E-Sylum). See also the E-Sylum excerpt for additional images f Boggs' work.
BOOK: Curious Currency (ANA, via E-Sylum).
Pizza advertising that the Secret Service missed (E-Sylum).
Where ramen noodle packets function as money (The Guardian).

De La Rue's joint venture with Kenya (Print Week). And here (Asoko Insight).
Security Papers Limited (Business Recorder).
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, 2016, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Another case of the "black money" scam (Focus Taiwan).
They claimed to be on Spring Break (Chron).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
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 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).
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).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry 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)
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency
Ink World Magazine (Ink World).
Middle East Printer (MEprinter). Website homepage.
Let's Talk Payments (LTP). Fintech website homepage.

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