News & Notes, Volume I, No. 12

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

The price of polymer, in Great Britain (The Guardian).
How the Queen Elizabeth has aged, across banknotes (The Washington Post).
Canada's $20 Commemorative Banknote (CoinWeek).
Bank Note Design, with lots of nice pictures of the Queen (Bank of Canada/Banque du Canada).
Shredding cash in Australia (News.com)
Fantasy figures on currency (Die Welt, in German).
Historians for Harriet Tubman (Bloomberg).
French Banknotes of War (frenchbanknotesofwar.com).
The Balboa is a currency named after a person. But what about others? The Bolivar would seem to be an obvious second example (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
"It is worn out, just like the love we used to have", how sad (Xinhua).
New banknotes from Cape Verde honoring Jorge Barbosa and Aristides Pereira (Ocean Press).
An update on the Chinese mushy banknote tragedy, with some interesting links (CoinsWeekly).
Is paper money halal? This guy thinks not (Youtube).
A digital currency for Scotland? (Bitcoin News Service).
Feel your currency in the UAE (Khaleej Times).
A look back to 1933 scrip issued in the Inland Valley (Daily Bulletin).
Collecting passports, very cool website about travel document ephemera (Our Passports).

Whatever happened to Google Books? Not about currency and banknotes, but I've asked the same question myself (The New Yorker).

The Queen, Over Time (from The Bank of Canada)

Multi-currency forgery in Indonesia (Jakarta Globe)
The Nigerians don't have a lock on this (Daily Mail, via E-Sylum)
The poor Somali Shilling (Mareeg.com)
Fake Ugandan Shs 100,000 (The Monitor).
Fighting counterfeiters during Eid (The Daily Star).
Counterfeiters exposed in Kerala (Manorama News).
In a family way (RTV6).
Stealing from charity (C&G Newspapers).
Protecting China's 100-Yuan notes. On why China doesn't issue a higher denomination note than this: "For many farmers, 100 Yuan has always been a lot of money. Higher denominations would only show them how much richer city dwellers have become" (Die Welt, in German).