News & Notes Volume II, No. 5

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

Some tax aspects of issuing local currencies (Forbes).
Survey of local currencies and their rationale (Resilience).
Sao Tome e Principe may chop three zeros off its currency (Stevenbron).
C orfu's banknote museum (Coins Weekly).
Defending "In God We Trust" on money (COINWeek).
Pencils made from recycled paper money (Greenline Paper).
BOOK: Revised Charlton guide to Canadian paper money due out soon (Coin World).
A proposed Crimea-themed banknote (The Moscow Times). It would celebrate local wine making.
The "bisse d'Ayent" will be on the new Swiss 100 franc note (The Local)
A cash transfer, via truck, in India (The new Indian Express).
Novelty products from the BEP (COINWeek).
Women on Canadian banknotes, an advocacy website (womenonbanknotes.ca)
People don't belong on money (Dayton Daily News). Well you know, that's just like your opinion, man.
Iraq commemorates its marshes (Dinar Speculator).
More helpful offers from Alibaba (Alibaba.com).
Elephants as currency? (The Street). My wallet couldn't handle it.
Peter Huntoon on the Aldrich-Vreeland emergency currency (E-Sylum).
BOOK: Banknote Yearbook, 9th ed. (Token Publishing).
Update on Zimbabwe's bond note plan (New Zimbabwe)
More on the idea of a common African currency (Moneyweb).

The Canadian Bank Note Co. faces a cashless society (Ottawa Citizen).
Central Bank of Ireland to beef up security at its Currency Center (Independent).
Fire shuts down Indian banknote paper production (The Hindu).
The BEP is on the lookout for new banknote technologies (FBO).
Banknote technology to 2024 (Smithers Pira). Have your credit card ready.
Keesing Technologies' home page (Keesing Technologies).
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
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).

An Italian factory making fake Euro notes (Sky News).
The trend in Euro forgeries (Global Post). Euro counterfeiting on the decline (COINWeek).

(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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