Currency Coming and Going
- "The holy grail of paper money" makes it to mainstream media (Fox News). Also here (Barrons). And the "Grand Watermelon" in the numismatic press (Coinweek).
- Uncorrected engraving mistakes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
- Rare east African notes at auction (Numismatic News).
- When coins were once made of paper (Coin World).
- Prices and results from Long Beach (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
- Sweden's plans for e-krona (Bloomberg).
- Iran in no hurry to lop zeroes off its currency (Financial Tribune).
- For the collector who has everything: banknote cufflinks (Digital Journal).
- A parallel currency for South Africa, the Cape Rand? (Capetown Etc.).
- Barcelona's "social currency" (Boston University).
- Zimbabwe's bond notes fall out of favor (Voice of America, video). The collapse of the economy and of the "zollar" (Quartz Africa).
- Zim central bank warns against trading in demonetized currency (ZW News).
- More controversy about polymer's secret ingredient (POP, with video). And here (New Zealand Herald).
- Collector-oriented notgeld issued to commemorate Germany's lost overseas possessions (Geldscheine-Online, in German).
- The German Leistungsbescheinigung of 1939, valid for gas masks (Geldscheine-Online, in German).
- Honoring Stalin on a zero-euro souvenir note? (Geldscheine-Online, in German).
- La Cote de Billets, 2019 edition (Numismag, in French). Interview with co-authors of the French banknote price guide, 1800-2000.
Don't even think of doing business in it (ZW News)
New Banknote Issues
About the Banknote Industry
Some of the businesses putting their best feet forward at the Anti-Counterfeiting & Currency Expo:
Upcoming Industry Conferences
- The Holography Conference, Minsk, Belarus, November 15-16, 2018 (Reconnaissance).
- 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).
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From the Annals of Crime
Websites to Like
- 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)
- My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip")
- 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
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