News & Notes Volume I, No. 23 | SPMC

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

The new 20 Euro note is now in circulation (Our Money). And from the European Central Bank. And in cash-happy Germany (Deutschlandradio kultur, in German).
Albert Pick is dead (E-Sylum).
Currency designs for a United Kingdom (Digital Arts).
How she won her banknote battle (Evening Standard)
Trinidad & Tobago's new polymer banknote (Trinidad Express).
Jewish identity as expressed on banknotes (The Jerusalem Post). When waving a banknote counts as anti-Semitism (Times of Israel). And commemorating Mizrahi Jews on currency (Times of Israel).
Who lost out to Jane Austen (Huffpost.uk).
A very pricey national banknote (Coin World).
The auction of a JSG Boggs bill (Quartz).
Cambodia's monetary history (Phnom Penh Post).
Reasons why people want vast amounts of shredded currency (Motherboard).
How to handle soiled and damaged rupee notes (dnaindia).
St. Joseph printed its own money once. Why not again? (News-Press).
Kazakhstan enters the inflationary big leagues (zerohedge.com). The Big Banknote Club (Financial Times).
China's aerospace achievements (China Daily). And here (Shanghaist).
"A totalitarian's dream come true" (Proactive Investors).
For the time being, Angolan and Namibian currencies are unexchangeable with one another (The Namibian).
Could the Palestinian Authority abandon the Shekel? (Al-Monitor).
The first woman to sign a Scottish banknote. And that's a pretty fine-looking banknote, too (The Herald). And here (Daily Record).
Bitcoin as a foreign currency reserve? (cryptocoinsnews). Could digital currencies bank the unbanked? (International Banker).
Chinese banknotes to be auctioned by the Archives International (ARTFIXdaily.com).
Latest US Banknote production figures (CoinNews).
The uses of serial numbers (zeenews).

Launched and in orbit (Chinanews, via Shanghaiist)

On the need for new anti-counterfeiting technologies (NewsHub).
Fortress Paper Ltd. will supply the paper for those new Kazakhstan notes, see above (ArticleBasis).
This would just seem to make counterfeiting a whole lot easier (The Stack).
De La Rue job cuts (Times of Malta).
The security paper shortage is over (Modesto Bee). And in Solano County as well (Times-Herald). Canadian Bank Note Co. and Pacific Bancnote will vie as suppliers (Orange County Register).
Good profile of Crane Paper Co. (Troy Record).
Questioning Canadian Bank Note's contract to deliver Jamaican passports (The Gleaner).

Instead in incinerating the cash, he burned through it (9news). And here (Australian Financial Review).
A "large trail of money" led to a Pakistani spy (Daily Excelsior).
Fighting fake banknotes (Radio Bayern, in German).
"The shopkeeper smelt a rat" (Mid-Day).
He only meant to impress the ladies (Times and Democrat).
If you know how (The Hutchinson News).
They cheated people with old notes (The Hindu).
Though a thief himself, he gave it away (The Hindu).

Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
"Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes)
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
Scotsbanknotes
Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera)
Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina).
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.).
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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