Currency Coming and Going​

• National bank notes of Starbuck, Minnesota (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Scotland's impact on British banknotes (BBC).
• Morocco backtracks on plan to issue Amazigh banknotes (Morocco World News).
• Stamping your own Tubmans (CNN).
• Behind the scenes at a euro printing press (Reuters).
• A political history of currency stamping (Mother Jones). And an old archive of stamped money here.
• Hemp is on, and in, the 1914 $10 note (Otherside Farms).
• Back to barter in Venezuela (Voice of America).
• Bad spelling on the Australian $50? Blame the English language (Times Colonist).
• The Hoe Street Bank retires debt with a bang (The Big Issue).
• Which euro banknote gets the most use? (Coin World).
• A cashless Fiji will reduce carbon emissions (Global Times).
• Myanmar seeks to limit the use of foreign currencies in domestic payments (Mingalar).
• Some Hungarian banknotes are losing their legal tender (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• U.S. $100 notes issued prior to 2013 are becoming less acceptable in Africa (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Why paper money comes in handy (Inkstone News).

     The Business of Collecting

• The Azerbaijan Autonomous Republic chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News). All three pages.
• PCDA to merge its convention with CSNS's (Coin World).
• Irish Paper Money Forum 
• Famous Italian faces on banknotes (PMG).
• The Bank of England's "Series D Pictorial" banknotes (PMG).
• PMG at the IPMS (PMG).
• NEW BOOK: Michael H. Schöne, Die D-Mark-Banknoten der Währungsreform in Westdeutschland und Westberlin 1948 [Banknotes of the West German and West Berlin Currency Reform of 1948] (Geldscheine-Online, in German). Including Operations "Bird Dog" and "Door Knob".

   German banknotes during the 1948 currency reform

                             (Geldscheine-Online).

        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

• New 100, 200 euro notes to appear May 28 (Coinweek). "We want to stay far ahead of the counterfeiters" (Deutsche Welle). "Safer, Sturdier, and Vegan Friendly" (New York Times).
• A new U.S. $20, Tubman or not? Not until 2028 (Coinweek). And here (Coin World).
• Sudan's new 500 pound note (Banknote News).
• Morocco's commemorative "non-monetary" note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Albania's new 200 leke note will appear in polymer (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bangladesh's new 1,000 take note has improved security (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Solomon Island's new polymer $5 (Banknote News).
• Ghana's cedi notes enter circulation today (3News).
• North Korean 200 won commemoration of something (Banknote News).
• Belarus's new 5 and 10 ruble notes (Banknote News).
• Greek myth, #MeToo, and the new euro notes (Express).

                     "Safer, sturdier, and vegan friendly" (New York Times).    

      Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries​

• Registration opens for the World Banknote Summit 2020 (Coinsweekly).
• The engravers working on Japan's next generation of currency (Nikkei Asian Review).
• De La Rue and "Byng Syndrome" (Investors Chronicle).
• JCM Global keeps track of every banknote in the casino (GGRAsia).