Currency Coming and Going​

• Wildlife on banknotes (CashEssentials).
• Tenino, Washington is still making its wooden money (K News).
• An assessment of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (IMF).
• Coronavirus and cash, cont. (Snopes). More efforts to launder currency (Metro). Experts say: calm down (Euronews). And here (The Guardian). "Banknotes can carry the coronavirus. But try not to be too alarmed: the risk is small. 'Unless someone is using a bank note to sneeze in' "...
• The Fed's quarantine of China-sourced U.S. dollars (New York Post).
• Iran urges "banknote avoidance" (BBC)
• Thailand's efforts to provide "hygenic" notes (Vietnam Plus).
• What kind of lamp was Florence Nightnigale carrying, anyway? (SW Londoner).
• Bitcoin propaganda art (Bitcoin Magazine).

     The Business of Collecting

• SIGN UP for the SPMC's 59th Anniversary Breakfast at the IPMS in Kansas City, June 11, 2020 (SPMC).
• SIGN UP for a free tour of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, June 10, 2020 (SPMC).
• CGB Numismatics Paris becomes an offical submission center for PMG (CoinNews.net).
• Numismata Munich show cancelled because of health concerns (Coinsweekly). A look at the reasoning behind the move (Coinsweekly). Singapore International Coin Fair has a new date (Coinsweekly).
• Ursula Kampmann on coronavirus and the coin trade (Coinsweekly).
• ON SCHEDULE: Whitman Expo announces no time change (Whitman Expo).
• Chopmarked Chinese banknotes? (E-Sylum).
• An artist's rendering of "The New U.S. Dollar" (Behance, via E-Sylum).
• Yemen's rival banknotes (E-Sylum).
• The Boxer Rebellion and numismatics (Coinweek).
• Uncut sheets from the Monarch collection (Coinweek).
• Stack's Bowers offers an expensive watermelon for auction (Coinweek).
• Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society accepting applications for research grants (Coinweek).
• Dix Noonan Webb's charity auction (The Irish Examiner).

     New Banknote Issues

• 100 and 200 taka Bangladeshi commemoratives (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Banknote News). And here (Banknote News).
• New variety of Mongolia's 50 tugrik note (Banknote News). And of the 20,000 denomination (Banknote News).
• Royal Bank of Scotland's new note (Finextra).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

          This list will try to incorporate coronavirus-related schedule changes, when known.

• Whitman Spring Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, March 19-21, 2020 (Whitman Expo).
• Maastricht Paper Money Fair, April 3-5, 2020, Valkenburg, Netherlands (Paper Money Fair).
• Central States Numismatic Association 81st Convention, April 22-24, 2020, Shaumburg, Illinois (CSNS).
• Annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, May 20-23, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky (AHPCS)
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• De La Rue brags about its new Royal Bank of Scotland polymer £20 (De La Rue).
• The design agencies behind some of Scotland's new banknotes (Scottish Business News).
• De La Rue needs to get its head into workplace safety (BBC).
• ATM discrimination in India (Times of India).
• India's new security ink (NDTV).
• IRS obliged to build "cash room" to handle marijuana industry tax payments (Fox Business).
• The BEP's production problems with the $100 note (Coin World).
• French security paper mill Crèvecoeur set to close (EUWID Pulp and Paper).
• Nanotech at HSP-EMEA Lisbon (StreetInsider).