News & Notes Volume III, No. 37

                        March 6, 2018

             Currency Coming and Going

• Big Canadian notes to lose legal tender status (Bank of Canada).
• Higgins Museum National Bank Note Seminar scheduled for July 26 (Coin World). With Nationals, everybody wins (Numismatic News). And more commentary on the market for Nationals (Numismatic News).
• The less the Bolivar is worth, the higher it trades at a premium (Bloomberg).
• Bank of Canada acknowledges award as central bank of the year (Bank of Canada).
• Results of Stack's Bowers Eldorado auction of Colombian paper (Numismatic News).
• Dutch town to issue its own money, the "Watermunt" (Steven Bron).
• Swaziland issues new 100 and 200 emalangeni notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• New Bolivian 10 and 20 boliviano notes due out in coming months (El Dia, in Spanish).
• Guinea (Conakry) to issue new 2,000 franc notes (GUINEENEWS, in French).
• Nigeria tries to keep up with demand for low-denomination notes (All Africa).
• U.K. supermarkets to keep accepting 10-pound notes even after BoE deadline (The Telegraph).
• What one collector's trove teaches about history (Onmanorma).
• Stack's Bowers and Ponterio April auction in Hong Kong (Coin Update).
• Canada's new $10 note featuring Viola Desmond to be revealed on International Women's Day (CTV News).
• "Cool Currency" video (Coinweek).
• Famous portraits on UK notes (BBC, via E-Sylum).
• A nice Treasury Note of 1890 (Coinweek).
• BOOK: The Paper Money of Scotland (E-Sylum).
• Available: The Italy Chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• New and improved 1,000 forint note enters circulation in Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank).

                                                          Soon to lose its legal tender (Bank of Canada)