News & Notes Volume III, No. 48

May 22, 2018

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

Currency Coming and Going

Scheduled events at the 2018 Banknote Conference, Dallas TX May 21-24 (The Banknote Conference).
An ABN vignetted sheet done in brown (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
Russia's commemorative banknote for the World Cup (TASS). And here (RT).
Syria to issue a 5,000 pound note? The central bank denies it (Enab Baladi).
I MF: Somalia can issue new currency series (MRI Bankers' Guide). Now it just has to find the money to pay for it.
Robert J. Shiller on the allure of monetary innovations (Project Syndicate).
Forty-fifth anniversary of the UAE dirham (The National).
South African currency in Stack's Bowers sale (Coinweek).
Are paper or polymer notes better for the environment? (Euro News).
Germany's Clara Schumann banknote (Coinweek).
Stack's Bowers Hong Kong auction (Coin World).
55 years in Iola (Numismaster).
Solomon Islands commemorates 40 years of independence with a forty-dollar note (SIBC).
Get various Banknote Book chapters in print (Banknote News).
Macedonia's new polymers (Secura Monde).
Local currency now to circulate in Paris (RFI).
Cambodia's 20,000 rial note (Steven Bron). And here (Banknote News).
Steven Bron on vacation (Steven Bron).

A ten-dollar note from the Gringotts Bank (Universal Resorts Orlando / Steven Bron)

"Cash in with Yashin" (RT)

About the Banknote Industry

Labor standoff in Australia (ProPrint).
Giesecke + Devrient's app for banknote security (Coin World). And G+D Currency Technology at the 2018 Banknote Conference (G + D).
Bank Note Paper Money India's output cleared for expansion (City Today).
Crane Currency wants to centralize its printing in Malta (Malta Today). And here (Secura Monde). The Riksbank and Crane Currency part ways (Sveriges Riksbank).
Will the BEP get a new money factory? (Coin World).
A strategic partnership between De La Rue and OPTEL (De La Rue).
De La Rue's interim CFO (De La Rue).

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

Bullet casings and banknotes (Talk of the Town).
At long last, a guilty plea in the RBA bribery case (Brisbane Times).
One person's theft becomes another person's buried treasure (CBS New York, via E-Sylum).
The final bill for the "cash in knickers" theft (The Telegraph).
Eating while black? (News One).
The Heisman Trophy winner who fell into counterfeiting (NOLA).
More counterfeits in Curacao (Curacao Chronicle).
ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).

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

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