Currency Coming and Going​

• The Greenback: Invented in Canada (Bank of Canada Museum). A related post here (Coin World).
• When Lake Okanagan was on Canada's $100 bill (Info News).
• Canada's $10 is named ISBN's BOTY for 2019 (CTV). And here (CBC).
• Profile of Darrell Bruner, long-time coin dealer in Owensboro, Kentucky (The Owensboro Times).
• Sweden asks, 'what is legal tender?' (Bloomberg).
• A history of money in Slovenia (Total Slovenia News).
• Treasury Secretary Frances E. Spinner also advanced the employment of women (The Daily Gazette).
• "When the Feds Gave Money Back" (Worcester Telegram).
• Northern Ireland's First Trust Bank notes will cease being legal tender in 2022 (First Trust Bank).
• Could Liberia get along with just one currency? (The Bush Chicken).
• German "Vampire Notes" (Coinweek). I have a  hard time seeing the vampire.
• Scottish National Party votes for a rapid transition to a Scottish currency (BBC). And here (The Guardian).
• Theresienstadt Ghetto currency donated to Israel's National Library (Jewish News).
• $30K lost on a Michigan highway (Grand Haven Tribune).
• This Labradoodle has expensive tastes in food (Daily Mail).
• Ecuador to promote circulation of the U.S. $2 bill (El Universo, in Spanish).
• Chocolate as currency among the Mayans (ZME Science).

                     Sorry, I can't make change (ZME Science).

     The Business of Collecting

• Indian note goes for twenty times its pre-auction estimate (CDN Publishing). And here (PMG).
• Spink's Hong Kong auction results (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Dix Noonan Webb results from March (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News). A Pudsey Bear note failed to sell.
• MA-Shops opens U.S. office in Sarasota, Florida (PMG).
• Lessons about supply and demand from U.S. commemorative coins (Numismatic News).

        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

• India to issue "new look' Rs 20 banknotes(Business Standard)."The Rs 20 note will be greenish-yellow in colour. The new banknote has a motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country's cultural heritage.." And here (Times of India). And here (Coin Update).
• Ghana's new cedis are coming May 6 (3News).
• Germany and Austria stopped printing 500 euro notes last Friday (Deutsche Welle). And here (Bloomberg).
• Azerbaijan to shift to polymer (Trend News Agency). And here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Macau's commemorative notes (Coin World).
• Belarus to issue new 5 and 10 rubliëi notes this coming May (MRI Bankers Guide).
• Solomon Islands' new $5 polymer note to come out on World Tuna Day (Central Bank of Solomon Islands). And here (Banknote News).
• Armenian Central Bank: That is not a Muslim tombstone on our new 5000 dram banknote (Ambanks).
• New Chinese banknotes due in August (Caixin Global). And here (CGTN). And here (South China Morning Post).
• A new face for Philippines' banknotes? (Yahoo Philippines).
• Looking forward to King Rama X on Thai banknotes (Devdiscourse).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Snøhetta, designer of Norway's currency (designboom).
• How and when the BEP will redeem your damaged currency (VOA, short video). Recommended, especially for dog owners.
• Central Bank of Nigeria prohibits ATMs from dispensing mutilated naira notes (Sahara Reporters).The "Clean Notes Policy" (Proshare). Private currency dealers like the idea (Punch).
• Unisys and the U.S. Mint (New Kerala).
• Crane Currency's and De La Rue's new security technologies (Coin World).
• Koenig and Bauer looks to new markets beyond banknotes (Yahoo Finance). "Susi Optics." And here (Bloomberg).
• Swiss National Bank's EMEA award for Best New Banknote Series (Professional Security Magazine).