News & Notes Volume IV, No. 11 September 4, 2018 [NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!] Currency Coming and Going Why the U.S. dollar looks the way it does (Time). It seems that it is not only lucre that is filthy (CreditCards.com). "In God We Trust" stays on U.S. currency (Reuters). National bank notes from along the Susquehanna (Numismatic News). Australian banknotes at Heritage Long Beach auction (Coinweek). Kagin's September auction to include an Emperor Norton note (Coinweek). Upcoming Spink sale features East African notes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News). United Airlines circumvents China's language policy by using currency, rather than country, names (Hong Kong Free Press). South Korean local currencies (gift certificates?) to be replaced by crypto (Bitcoin.com). Mongolia celebrates Year of the Pig (Coin Update). Ukraine's new 20 hryvnia note (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (The Siver Post). Things that make new £10 notes valuable (The Week). How demonetization changed Indians' attitudes towards cash (NDTV). Indonesia to limit flow of foreign banknotes into country (Jakarta Post). Don't confuse Mexico's new 500 peso bill with the 20 peso note (Vallarta Daily). More on Mexico's new note family (Steven Bron). How high might Mexico's new denominations go? (El Economista, in Spanish). New banknotes for the Russian Federation? (MRI Bankers' Guide). Commemorating the centenary of Polish independence (Radio Poland). And here (Banknote News). Norway to put new 50 and 500 krone banknotes in circulation (Norges Bank). "Varnished" banknotes? (Economic Times). And here (Secura Monde). Ireland's zero euro note doesn't sell for nothing (Coin World). Depictions of Bank of England staff from sixty years ago (The Guardian). Felix Topolski's 1957 rendering of Bank of England banknote print workers (The Guardian). About the Banknote Industry U.S. Mint and the BEP to join marketing forces (U.S. Mint, via E-Sylum). De La Rue faces down critic (This is Money). De La Rue as a stock investment? (Motley Fool UK). Sun Chemical Security's affiliations (Ink World). Reserve Bank of India's currency management portal (Deccan Herald). India looks to digital currency in order to cut down on the expense of printing banknotes (Coindesk). How much it costs India to print its money (Business Today). Upcoming Industry Conferences International Banknote Designers Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-13, 2018 (IBDC). World Banknote Summit, Frankfurt, Germany, September 24-26, 2018 (World Banknote Summit). High Security Printing-Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 3-5, 2018 (Reconnaissance) The Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Expo, Las Vegas NV, November 6-8, 2018 (News Anyway). The Future of Cash 2019, Athens, Greece, February 20-21, 2019 (Future of Cash). From the Annals of Crime Criminal civil asset forfeiture (Washington Post). The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation is now a 501(c) (3) organization (Coinweek). Nepal's Most Wanted (Khabar). India's Rs 100 note the most counterfeited (Latest LY). ICTA gives awards to counterfeit fighters (Numismatic News). SYMPOSIUM: Law & Order in the National Archives, September 15, 2018 (National Archives). Websites to Like (in no particular order) Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads) Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library) Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum) 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 (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics) Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art). Pakistani Currency