Currency Coming and Going​

• "The Story of Sebring Funny Money" (Sports Car Digest). With a cameo appearance by the Society of Paper Money Collectors!
• Antisemitic tropes about Jews and money at the Jewish Museum London (Jewish News).
• Making money grow on trees (Inverclyde Now). Check the date.
• Banksy's "cryptographic nous" (Boing Boing). Possibly also an April Fool's joke, but with Banksy you may never know. Banksy arrested, with "thousands of dollars of counterfeit money"? (Today's Extra Media).
• Trump autograph on a fantasy Hillary banknote goes for over $5k (The Art Newspaper).
• Central Bank of Philippines Governor and his "worm-looking" signature (Manila Bulletin).
• Tory MP pushes Banknote Diversity Bill (The Scotsman). And here (Kent Online).
• An early electronic money identifier for the blind (E-Sylum).
• What's really new about cryptocurrencies? (Yale Insight, via E-Sylum).
• How to revive Traverse City, Michigan's local currency "Bay Bucks" (The Ticker).
• How Julius Caesar used money to amass power (History Hit).
• Woman tries to exchange a hell bank note at Malaysian currency exchange (World of Buzz).
• Scottish nationalists push for separate currency in the event of independence (The Scotsman).
• Zim RTGS dollar declines 20% against $U.S. (New Zimbabwe).
• Prospects for an ECOWAS common currency (All Africa).
• ATMs run dry in Sudan (All Africa).
• Voyages of the SMS Emden, as chronicled in numismatics (Numismatic Notebook).
• Venezuelans use U.S. dollars, and what that might mean (Forbes).
• Madagascar continues to retire older notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Certificate of deposit of the Deutsche Volksbank of Eutin, 1870 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Beatrix Potter will appear on Cumbria's Lake District Pound (Fine Books Magazine).

        Beatrix Potter on the Lake District Pound (Fine Books Magazine).

     The Business of Collecting

• Chinese "Iron Man" proof goes for gold at Stack's Bowers auction (Numismatic News). And here (CoinNews).
• Dix Noonan Webb offers a rare pair of Indian haj pilgrimage notes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• New catalog: Round the World in Banknotes (Coinweek).
• Curious Currency, 2nd ed. (Numismatic News).
• Certified Collectibles Group establishes strategic partnership with Money Landmark (PMG).
• Profile of Certified Collectibles Group (Business Observer Florida).
• Kolbe and Fanning numismatic literature auction April 27 (Coinweek).
• New Japanese invasion money book has a video (Youtube).
• Local Pittsburgh media profiles ANA Money Show (KDKA).
• Deutsche Geldscheine- und Wertpapiersammler, e.V. publishes DGW-Information 2019, Volume 1 (DGW, in German). The German Association of Paper Money and Fiscal Paper Collectors publishes two volumes per year of member contributions. Highlights of the latest volume include Michael Gnatzy, "The Emergency Postage Stamp Money of Baden" and Amir Safaie, "The Paper Money of Iran through 1932".

        International Paper Money Show, Kansas City 2019

• IPMS Show website
• Sign up for the 58th Anniversary Breakfast at the IPMS, Kansas City, June 14, 2019 (SPMC).
• While at this year's IPMS, sign up for a FREE tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, June 13, 2019 (SPMC).

     New Banknote Issues

• Uzbekistan's 100,000 som note (Coin World).
• Libya's first polymer note (Coin World).
• The Bahama's new 3 dollar note, with video (Banknote News).
• The Altenberger Dom (cathedral) appears on a souvenir euro note (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, in German).
• GDR's iconic Trabant car appears on a souvenir euro note (Numismag, in English and German). Go Trabi Go!

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Bulgaria's 100 levs banknote wins Regional Banknote of the Year award (Giesecke + Devrient). Its security features are provided by G+D's Louisenthal unit. It's "more secure than the euro" (Sophia News Agency).
• Papua New Guinea's currency processing facility assures that banknotes are "clean and fit" (Papua New Guinea Post-Courier).
• Crane Payment Innovations to showcase its banknote validator (Intergame).
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing scouts own new facilities location in Beltsville, MD (DVIDS).
• GAO reports on the economics of coin and note production (Coin World). And why the U.S. will stick with the paper dollar (GAO).
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing's progress with 2017 series notes (Coin World).
• Coin World excerpts profile of Federal Reserve note designer (Coin World).
• De La Rue's contracts to produce tobacco tax stamps (Morningstar).
• Pasaban's contribution to euro banknote security (Pasaban).
• Computers and optical character recognition (Mental Floss).
• "Modeling the Demand for Euro Banknotes" (Econpapers).
• Program for the Currency Conference, April 7-11, 2019 (Currency Conference).
• The State of New Jersey and the City of Philadelphia fight cashlessness (Coinsweekly).
• Cashless in Houston (Houston Chronicle).
• Cashlessness might fight corruption in Malaysia (The Malaysian Reserve).