News & Notes Volume III, No. 26

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

Cashless societies and the problem of tipping (New York Times). The Greeks and their cash (Ekathimerini).
More commemorative "zero" euro notes, this time from Spain (El Norte de Castilla, in Spanish).
Marketing a cryptocurrency by stamping paper notes (BTCManager).
Putting the Australian Dollar on the blockchain (PYMNTS.com)
Creating artistic value out of worthless Venezuelan notes (Venezuela al Dia, in Spanish).
Turn those old Philippines banknotes in! (Manila Bulletin).
The small output of a New Mexico national bank (Numismatic News).
This Finnish local currency will come in digital and paper form (YLE).
How difficult it is to redeem worn or mutilated banknotes in India (Numismatic News).
Singapore's dirty money (Channel NewsAsia). And yet spitting is illegal there.
Sri Lankan commemorative notes to be printed by De La Rue (Daily Mirror).
Lyn Knight auctions error notes (Coin World).
Malaysia to commemorate 60 years of independence (Straits Times).
Stack's Bowers offers the Joel R. Anderson collection (Coinweek).
Venezuelans launch their own parallel currency (Washington Post). And here (Reuters).
Salmon P. Chase and the Very First Federal Notes (E-Sylum).
The Malawian tradition of throwing money (E-Sylum).
The New Caledonian chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
BOOK: George Selgin's Money Free and Unfree (City Journal, via E-Sylum).

Macau's banknote printing plans (MNA).
Sri Lankan Prime Minister visits De La Rue Lanka printing facility (ColomboPage).
Kenyan controversy over De La Rue tender (All Africa).
Stack's Bowers new Singapore-based Consignment Director (Coinweek).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).

As part of his plea, this counterfeiter agreed to make a training video for the Secret Service (The Brunswick News).
Civil asset forfeiture, Thai style (The Nation).
Banknote serial numbers were used by crooks to identify each other in this money laundering scheme (Express & Star).
Homeless man cashes in big at Charles de Gaulle airport (Money).

(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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