Currency Coming and Going​

• Hidden anti-Japanese messages in the notes of occupied China (Coinweek). Including the "Vulgar Wiseman."
• The BEP's "Lucky Money Collection" celebrates 2019's Year of the Pig (Coinweek).
• Rare Chinese notes on offer at the Heritage Hong Kong auction (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Centennial of the Chicago Coin Club (Coinweek).
• Travails of Pittsburgh's German National Bank (Pittsburgh Magazine, via E-Sylum).
• Stack's Bowers to offer rare Paraguayan notes (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
• A currency exhibit opens in Bandar Abbas, Iran (Tehran Times).
• Eleven Newman auction results top $60 million (Coin World)
• The ghost town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and the notes of its national banks (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• The problems of "auction sniping"(Coinsweekly)
• Sherlock Holmes and the American Bank Note Company mystery(The Fourth Garrideb, via SPMC)
• Bank of America's generous ATM (Fox News, via E-Sylum).
• "Gamo the banknote god" (The Nation).
• Banknotes as anti-semitic tropes in Hungary (Times of Israel).
• A history of currency counting (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia).
• When refusing a banknote becomes a hate crime (The Telegraph).
• Profile of Nigerian numismatist Adetunji Omotola (Ghana Web).
• Australia's progress towards a cashless society (Sydney Morning Herald).
• The political origins of "In God We Trust" (Patheos).
• Sweden takes another look at the cashless society (Numismatic News). And a decided view from Gotham (New York Post). Ten cash-only holdouts in Detroit (Detroit Free Press). Their reasons make sense.

                    New Banknote Issues

• Romanian banknote to celebrate 100 years of independence (National Bank of Romania).
• Mauritius to replace its existing Rs 2000 notes with polymer updates (Bank of Mauritius). And here (Le Mauricien, in French). With French/English captioned video).
• What if new U.K. banknotes honored endangered species? (Value Walk).
• The Dominican Republic's new, modified, 100-peso note (Banknote News).
• Kenya finally to get its new currency (Pulse).
• Bank of Canada Museum exhibit honors Viola Desmond (CBC).
• Taiwan reports no plans to redesign its currency (Focus Taiwan).
• UAE note commemorates Zayed centenary (MENA FN).
• 25th anniversary of the Armenian dram (JAM News). And here (Coin World). And here (Banknote News).
• The Czech Republic's new commemorative overprint (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Argentina's new banknote series to showcase the country's fauna (Banco Central de la Republica Argentina). In English and with subtitled video.
• China's new commemorative issues (ECNS). Chinese are bemused by their commemorative banknote (Business Insider).
• Pungent objections to Thatcher on the £50 (Irish Times). "Thatcher graduated in chemistry from Oxford and spent some time working in food research, but her greatest contribution to science – and even this is disputed – looks to have been some minor tweaks to the recipe for Lyon’s soft-serve ice cream. You may as well nominate Adolf Hitler for an honour recognising “contribution to watercolour painting."

                                    This face coming soon to Sterling? (Irish Times).