• Iranians' "banknote protest" (BBC).
• Printers' samples (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News)
• "Scripophily", April 2018 issue (E-Sylum).
• This Emirati calligrapher's work appears on UAE banknotes (Khaleej Times). "When people ask me about my work, I tell them it's in their pockets."
• New Nepali 500 rupee note (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Banknote News).
• New Ghana 5 cedi note (Banknote News).
• Unusual forms of money (The Chive).
• Shopping in Beryozka shops during the Soviet era (Russia Beyond).
• Heroic women on Bolivia's banknotes (Letras Finas, in Spanish).
• Why does the United States do banknote design so badly? (Coin World).
• More on the upcoming Higgins Banknote Seminar (E-Sylum).
• Profile of Ma Rong, Chinese banknote engraver (Chinese Money Matters, via E-Sylum).
• Another affront to Scottish currency dignity (The Scotsman)
• Tubman uncertainties (Coin World). And here (Numismatic News).
• Some paper money favorites (Coinweek).
• ABBA, haters of cash (Time).
• Seeing stars on $100 notes (Numismatic News).
• Nobel winners on banknotes (Coinweek).
• When cash comes in handy (Numismatic News).
• Teaching kids their way around cash (Taipei Times).
• A discussion of Korean currency unification from 10 years ago (Brookings).
• An antique sword and an "Abraham Newland" at auction (Shropshire Star). And here (Whitchurch Herald). "An eccentric character, Abraham slept at the Bank of England itself for 25 years, largely a stranger to his own home. The expression ‘An Abraham Newland’ came to mean a bank note, because without his signature, no Bank of England note was genuine. He is perhaps best known for his self-written epitaph ‘Beneath this stone old Abraham lies, nobody laughs, and nobody cries, where he has gone, and how he fares, nobody knows and nobody cares’."

    This "Abraham Newland" was found hanging on a wall (Shropshire Star)

              From the Annals of Crime

• A look back at the Underwear Robbery case (Observer).
• The mystery of the ATM that dispensed fakes (India Today).
• The Bank of England's Banknote Checking Scheme (Essential Retail).
• Hong Kong taxi driver cheats passengers with practice banknotes (Around DB). And here (South China Morning Post).
• Fake woman, fake euros (Hindustan Times).
• Fake taxis, fake yuan (Sixth Tone).
• "Black Money" gang broken up in Thailand (The Nation).
• French museum discovers it is devoted to counterfeits (CNN).
• ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).