News & Notes Volume I, No 26 | SPMC

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

An exhibition of the artist Michail Akselos, who designed Greece's first banknotes (Greek Reporter).
Gilbert & Dean and the fight against Boston counterfeiting (Pocket Change, via E-Sylum)
The cultural heritage debate, continued (CoinsWeekly).
The early currency of New South Wales (Daily Telegraph).
On the lookout for fancy serial numbers (Wall Street Journal).
A Third-Party Grader thinks third-party grading of banknotes is important (CoinWeek, video).
Were the Educational notes too good to circulate? (Coin World).
The biggest banknote in the world (Die Welt, in German).
The advent of Ithacash, in place of Ithaca HOURs (WXXI News).
Using paper money for the dead as a weapon of protest (South China Morning Post).
Iraqi banknotes are also set to get a lot larger (denominationally), amid business as usual (Star Tribune).
Artisanal currency makes a good Yuletide gift (Consumer Reports).
Liberia's "conundrum" (Daily Observer).
Some Christmas-themed currency (Coin Community). And some Santa Claus notes here (CoinWeek).

These would be collectable serial numbers (banknotes.com)

Nanotech's 4th quarter results (Cantech Letter).
Cash Handling Journal, "The first and only European blog for the cash handling professionals worldwide."
Burnaby's nanotech banknote security technology (Vancouver Sun, video).

This cabbie was taken for a ride (South China Morning Post).
Currency smugglers inconvenienced by Chennai floods (Daily News & Analysis).
"Just before I quit, my habit was getting to a slightly gross stage. I licked a banknote at a work party, because I thought I’d used it to snort coke a few times over the previous weekend." It gets worse (The Debrief).
Counterfeit 50s in Maui (Maui Now).

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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