[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!] The painter JMW Turner will be the new face on the £20 note (Reuters). And here (CNN Money). Nan Shepherd will be on Scotland's £5 note (BBC) New Zealand's $5 wins "banknote of the year" award from IBNS (Stuff.co). New uses for Calgary Dollars (Calgary Dollars). Secretary Lew's letter announcing U.S. currency changes (reprinted in COINweek). The background and politics to the choice of Tubman for the $20, and other changes (New York Times). And biographical profiles of the new faces (New York Times). Donald Trump is against it (Cleveland.com). When "real live women" last appeared on American currency (Newsweek). Women on banknotes around the world (Vox). How about a woman on Indian currency? (Daily O). Most Americans don't know that Jackson is on the $20 in the first place (Rasmussen Reports). Statement from the PNG (COINWeek). A quantum banknote? (Sputnik). A twenty-five dollar bill? (Inverse). A 1907 Chinese banknote fetches $30,000 at Archives International auction (ARTFIX Daily). There will be no Welsh banknotes (Herald Scotland). A brief history of money from the British Museum (BBC). Update on Zimbabwe's cash shortage (All Africa). Zimbabwean depositors are resorting to "pillow banking" (Nehanda Radio). To be paid in cash, miners are smuggling gold to Mozambique (New Zimbabwe). Liberia restricts exports of physical cash (GNN Liberia). Islamic State has seen $500 million of its cash stockpile "incinerated" (CNBC). Artist folds money to make a point (SCNow). Acting green with shredded green (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco). Ten most bizarre banknotes ever, old post (Money Choice). Portugal's Money Museum (Banco de Portugal). Jeff Darcy, from Cleveland.com Siegwerk India has a new CEO (Print Week). India's Security Printing and Minting Co. is back to making currency (Times of India). The DICE banknote system (Digital Journal). The Banknote Conference, May 23-26, Washington D.C. (Banknote Conference) Here is a description of the presentations to be made there. 4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association). "Faces of Counterfeiters Past" (The National Archives, via E-Sylum). Spotting fakes on eight currencies (The Telegraph). He tried to pay his jail bond with fake money (The Smoking Gun). Doh! Re-purposing $10 notes as $100s in Koreatown (The Korea Times). $11,000 shrink-wrapped and hidden in the toilet tank, and a gunman named Mo (Washington Post). Sheets of fake $20s left in the trash led to their arrests (Fox News). In Muskogee County, OK, officials are returning cash seized from a Burmese Christian rock band (Gawker). (in no particular order) Newman Numismatic Portal International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members). The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money). The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock). COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content). MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes). Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book). Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates). Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates). 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.). Where's George? (currency tracking project). 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