News & Notes Volume III, No. 25

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

Greenspan compares Bitcoin to "Continental Currency" (The Cointelegraph). Is Bitcoin a currency, or is it something else? (Forbes). Venezuela proposes the "petro" (Quartz).
Germany's "hidden treasures" (Handelsblatt Global).
A 19th century German note for the New Year (Numismatic News).
Albania to double the size of its highest denomination banknote (BNE IntelliNews).
An infographic of disruptive payments systems (Visual Capitalist).
Venezuela's cash shortage (Via New).
Will polymer cause coins and banknotes to converge? (Coinweek).
Armenia's commemorative dram note (Banknote News). With video in Armenian.
Peru's soles are no longer nuevo (Steven Bron). With video in Spanish, describing security features.
Beware "instant collectibles" (E-Sylum). While about coins, this applies equally to paper money issues.
Round up at the 101 Ranch (E-Sylum).
Medallion engraving machines (E-Sylum). Bless the Newman Numismatic Portal.
Korea's Olympic commemorate notes on sale (Banknote News).
Colombian coins and paper offered by Stack's Bowers (E-Sylum).
Steven Bron, Star Wars fan (Steven Bron).
Archives International auction highlights (E-Sylum).
A 40 franc note for 40 years of Djibouti's independence (Banknote News).
Uruguay's commemorative note design (Steven Bron).
The Keeling-Cocos Islands chapter of The Banknote Book (Banknote News).
Czech competition for a commemorative banknote (Banknote News).
India's "electoral bonds", good for only fifteen days (Firstpost).
If Lithuania can do it, why not other countries? (Coin World).
No currency for Zimbabwe yet (Malaysian Digest).
Bitcoin is haram (Morocco World News). Well that settles it.
Cash no longer to be accepted on Boston trolleys (WBUR).
A copyright problem for a Kazakh banknote? (Global Voices).
Brazilian artist put his politics on banknotes (The Art Newspaper).
Man gets back his long-lost "special banknote" (IBT).
A Fed nominee who doesn't like paper money (Bloomberg Businessweek).

Crane is buying, uh, Crane (Coinweek). This should not affect operations at Crane's Malta plant (Times of Malta). Nor in Dalton (Berkshire Eagle). Here's the shareholder presentation.
Computer-controlled holograms (Prague Daily Monitor).
High Security Printing Conference Europe, Warsaw, Poland, February 19-21, 2018 (Reconnaissance).
High Security Printing Conference Latin America, June 11-13, Dominican Republic (Reconnaissance).
Banknote 2018, May 21-24, 2018, Dallas, Texas (The Banknote Conference).
African Currency Forum, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, September 2-5, 2018 (African Currency Forum).
The Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Expo, Las Vegas NV, November 6-8, 2018 (News Anyway).

(Crane.com)

Fight fake banknotes for Christmas (Hartlepool Mail).
South Korea finds a new "supernote" (Straits Times).
And so close to home! (Norman Transcript).
CORRECTED: Enroll in Joel Zlotnick's course: Forensic Printing Process Identification (Counterfeit Forensics LLC).

(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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