News & Notes Volume III, No. 13

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

Sweden and the future of cash (BBC).
S omaliland and the future of cash (BBC). Turmoil surrounding the Somali Shilling (Somaliland Press).
Der Schweizer Dukatenscheisser? (Bloomberg).
Lunacy in Zimbabwe (The Zimbabwean)
New Nepalese notes for the Dashain Festival (The Himalayan Times).
How Norway makes banknotes (Youtube). Twenty-six minute Norges Bank video, in Norwegian with subtitles. And five cool banknotes (Youtube). Six-minute video by Half Asleep Chris.
The Hawaii chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
Turkmenistan commemorates the 5th Asian Indoor Games (Steven Bron).
Israel's new 100-new shekel note (Steven Bron).
Numismatic Bilbiomania Society creates a Facebook Group (E-Sylum).
Snorting cocaine the safe way (Euro Weekly News).
The dominant U.S. dollar (The New Yorker).
Bolivia's forthcoming banknotes (El Deber, in Spanish). And here (Pagina Siete, in Spanish).
Banknote trends in the former Soviet Republics (Coin World).
Colin R. Bruce II passes away (Numismatic News). More reminiscences here (E-Sylum).
The money artist Santiago Montoya (E-Sylum).
Winning this prize makes you a Zimbabwean trillionaire (The Local).
How to spot rare banknotes (Love Money).
Vegan cafe ups the ante (Daily Mail).
The feel of Britain's new ten-Pound note (Atlas Obscura). Low serial numbers will be auctioned for charity (This is Money). Victoria Cleland on the new note's security features (Business Insider). And here (Steven Bron). Other women who might be featured on British currency (The Telegraph).
The difficulty of changing America's currency (The Economist).
Banjo Paterson updated on Australia's $10 (The West Australian).
The BEP stands ready to rescue currency from hurricane damage (Coin World). And here (Coin Week).
Heritage Auctions opens a London office (Market Watch).
Activist wants Jomo Kenyatta off Kenya's currency (Tuko).

(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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