News & Notes Volume III, No. 38

                        March 13, 2018

             Currency Coming and Going

• The Bank of Canada's "Inflation Busters" video game (CBC). And why is the new note vertical? (Huffpost). Balancing history and security (Calgary Herald). And the Bank of Canada's video (Youtube).
• A Chinese banknote checker (Xinhua).
• The earliest known American gold certificate? (E-Sylum).
• IBNS educational forum in London (E-Sylum).
• Nigerian drops "weird" currency in the collection plate (Information Nigeria).
• Another report on Canada ending some legal tender status (Coin World).
• A rare New Zealand postal note (New Zealand Herald).
• The king is dead. Long live the king (Straits Times). And here (Banknote News).
• Venezuela to introduce new watermark on its 100,000 bolivares note (MRI Bankers Guide). Which will make everything better.
• New from the BEP: "Homefront" (Coinweek).
• Malaysian banknotes at auction (The Star).
• Ukraine to replace some banknotes with coins (Kyiv Post). Moldova too (Secura Monde).
• A Minnesota national bank note that survived (Numismatic News).
• Croatian app launched by scanning banknotes (The Dubrovnik Times).