News & Notes Volume III, No. 39

                        March 20, 2018

             Currency Coming and Going

• Kansas City IPMS 2018 speaker schedule (SPMC).
• What the history of American currency says about Bitcoin (Smithsonian).
• The ups and downs of an Australian 5 shilling note (Numismatic News).
• More on the Ukraine's banknote retirement (Coinweek).
• Debating the limits to Sweden's cashless society (Pulitzer Center).
• Venezuelan city of Elorza to issue its own currency (Reuters). It won't be the first alternative currency issued recently in Venezuela (NPR). And here, with picture of the "Elorza" (BBC).
• Indonesian activist dresses in banknotes as part of anticorruption protest (Jakarta Post).
• The Generalissimo to be demoted from some Taiwan banknotes (Taiwan News).
• Another report on Venezuela's upgraded 100,000 bolivar note (Secura Monde).
• The resilience of cash (Quartz).
• Switzerland it issue a new 200 franc note this August (SWI). Official announcement here (Swiss National Bank).
• A Guatemalan banknote reverts from polymer to cotton (Steven Bron).
• BOOK: Vietnam and French Indochina banknotes (E-Sylum). Unenthusiastic review.
• Profile of Mary Somerville, on Scotland's tenner (Numismatic News).
• An Iowa national banknote from the Joel R. Anderson collection (Coinweek). And some Legal Tender notes (Coinweek). Fox News on the Anderson sale (Fox). And it is also featured in Barron's (Barron's).