News & Notes Volume I, No. 49

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

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The forthcoming Churchill 5-Pound note (Telegraph).
Thai banknote to commemorate the King (Bangkok Post).
Those Zimbabwean bond banknotes? Hey don't worry (All Africa). Zimbabweans aren't convinced (African Business Review). "'These new, so-called bond notes are Zimbabwe dollars which went to private school.'"
The winners and losers in a cashless world (Harvard Business Review).
Putin satirized on fake currency (i News).
More New Zealand "brighter money" (Coin World).
Anti-semitic banknotes (E-Sylum).
New Libyan banknotes on the way, made in Russia (Libya Herald).
By next year, Somalia will be printing its own currency (Garowe Online).
Korea will issue a commemorative banknote for the PyeonChang Winter Olympics (The Korea Herald),
As Venezuela's inflation worsens, its currency becomes less useful and literally more of a burden (NPR).
Crows at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo take banknotes from visitors' hands (Daily Herald).
Artists on paper money (COINWeek).
Money and historical symbolism (History News Network).
A politician says its time to get rid of the $1 bill (Real Clear Markets).
Archives International auction, with a focus on Asia (COINWeek).
Features in the Stack's Bowers ANA auction (COINWeek).
Gold certificates in a James Peterson auction (Coin world).
Renovating the old country store,she discovered logging company scrip (Knoxville News-Sentinel).

The quantum dot and its applications to security printing (ZD Net).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Vietnamese police: get rid of corruption by getting rid of big banknotes (Tuoitre News). " Once banknotes with small face value are in use, it is difficult to bribe anyone because the envelopes containing the cash would be too big to change hands 'under the table'."
As the Indonesian government begins to monitor its citizens credit card usage to catch tax evaders, they switch back to cash (International Business Times).
(Still) Made in the USA (Coin World).
Canberra has a $50 problem (ABC).
Another prop movie money alert (KHSV).
Thieves broke into his house and stole the safe he kept his note collection in (Brantford Expositor).

(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).
Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
Scotsbanknotes
Counting on Currency (Industry website).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
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

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