News & Notes Volume III, No. 42                         April 10, 2018

 

Currency Coming and Going

 

• In pursuit of Kentucky national banknotes (Coinweek).
• The "5,000 Drachma Bill Bridge" (Greek Reporter). With a beautiful video.
• A local currency for Eastbourne, UK (Eastbourne Herald).
• A European adventure using Red Bull as currency? (Tampa BayTimes).
• A Prague exhibition of 90 years' worth of banknote and security printing (Prague Daily Monitor).
• The case for a Scottish currency (The National).
• Spink to auction Schlomo Tepper collection of Palestinian banknotes (Spink).
• Cashing in on unused foreign currency (Japan Times).
• Bolivia's new 10 boliviano note (El Deber, in Spanish).
• The First National Bank of Goldfield, Iowa (Numismatic News).
• Joel Anderson auction results (Coinweek).
• Winner of a Czech Republic banknote design competition (Banknote News), commemorating a century of Czech currency. And here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Comparison shopping (Banknote News).
• Bangladesh's 70 taka commemorative note (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron).
• A sixteen sicca rupee note of the Bank of Hindostan (Mintage World).
• The Fed's earnings in 2017 (Coin World).
• New Venezuelan Bolivar issues pronounce the old ones worthless (Coin World). And here (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron).
• Her signature was on $1.1 trillion in currency (Columbus Monthly).
• The architecture of human rights on Canada's new $10 note (Arch Daily).
• IBNS's Banknote of the Year(Quartz). And reported here (Bloomberg). And here (Business Insider). And here (Steven Bron).
• The Thai public loves its royal banknotes (Pattaya Mail).
• Profile of an Indian banknote error collector (E-Sylum).
• Banknote protector printing (E-Sylum).
• Another description of the IPMS 2018 Symposium speakers (E-Sylum).
• Austria releases a zero euro note (The Siver Times).
• Indian authorities warn about dirty money--literally (India Today).
• In praise of large-size U.S. banknotes (Coinweek).
• Colombia's peso banknote trees (Worldcrunch).
• "Heroes on your money" (Inquirer).
• BOOK: The War Against Cash (Coinsweekly).

     

                                A sign of value, but sin valor (Steven Bron)

                            

About the Banknote Industry​ India's overorders vex foreign paper mills (The Indian Express). "Activist" investor accumulated De La Rue stock (City A.M.). Central Bank of the Philippines upgrades its printing facilities (Manila Bulletin). Fears about lost Irish banknote printing jobs (Dublin People).                      Upcoming Industry Conferences 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).

              From the Annals of Crime

• New appointment to the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (EIN Newsdesk).
• Using Khadi to launder demonetized Indian banknotes (Economic TImes).

Websites to Like                                                (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