News & Notes Volume II, No. 1

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

Chester Krause has passed away. Here's a profile, with links, from E-Sylum. Here is the funeral home notice.
The Historic New Orleans collection of banknotes (The New Orleans Advocate).
Benjamin Franklin's currency printing innovations (Oxford University Press).
Clearing up a mystery regarding Malayan rubber export coupons (Numismatica).
Brexit vote wreaks havoc for British tourists (The Telegraph). And here (CNN Money). Australians flock to buy suddenly cheaper sterling (Daily Mail). Shortages of British currency in the UAE (Gulf News). The turmoil may encourage the hoarding of physical currency (Bloomberg).
India's plan to move towards a cashless society (Reserve Bank of India).
Crushing a safe full of cash using a hydraulic press (Huffington Post). Fun video.
How Hamilton and Franklin have changed over time (COINWeek).
50,000 Won banknotes in circulation (KBS World Radio).
Panic Scrip of 1914 (E-Sylum).
No fresh supplies of currency for Oman this Eid (Times of Oman).
Sketch by Edwin S. Blashfield to be auctioned by Heritage (Coin World).
Federal Reserve notes will become more touchy-feely (COINWeek).
Tubman still will be on the $20, despite Rep. King (Pilot Tribune).
The card money of New France (le Quebecois Libre, via E-Sylum).
A rare 1000 Dong note up for sale at the Hong Kong Paper Money Sale (COINWeek).
Port Authority to end cash tolls (NJ.com). Use of toll scrip ended in 2012 (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).
Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe want their cash (All Africa). More on Zimbabwe's currency famine (Africa News). The country will still use multiple currencies (Africa News). Those Bond notes don't look palatable (New York Times).
A Portland marijuana tax would require the city to collect millions in currency payments (OPB).
"Where Dollars Die" (Youtube). Video from the Federal Reserve Bank of New Orleans on how old currency is composted.

Fire at the Canadian Banknote Company (CBC News).
ABNote Australia's CEO departs (PRWire).
nanoPay Corp.'s MintChip (Forbes).
Toronto-Dominion bank in trouble over its coin-counting machines (Financial Post).
A cash register that disinfects currency? (Lex18.com).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, 2016, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Is currency a banknote, under the law? (National Law Journal).
The prevalence of Romanian counterfeits (Romania Insider).
He pulled his heist by impersonating an FBI agent (WINK News).
Scumbag, indeed (E-Sylum).
North Korea is at it again (Korea Joongang Daily). And it's into Chinese currency in a big way, too (UPI).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
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).
Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
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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