News & Notes Volume II, No. 15

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

Liberia's new banknotes (Executive Mansion).
Apart from the Queen, Brits don't know their banknote faces (Sunderland Echo).
Geoffrey Bell auctions offers rare Canadian note (COINWeek).
New signature on Malaysian notes (The Malay Mail).
Colombian artist incorporates currency into his work (Broadway World).
Some Zimbabweans won't mind the new paper money (Zimbabwe Daily).
Storing gold in Switzerland's underground vaults (Bloomberg). Shades of Gringotts.
A rare Virginia Panic Scrip from 1893 (E-Sylum).
The Dollar in Revolutionary America (Journal of the American Revolution, via E-Sylum).
Fantasy Scottish banknotes (The National, via E-Sylum). But if they do secede from the UK following Brexit, the Euro beckons.
Stack's Bowers upcoming auction of Confederate paper (Stack's Bowers, via E-Sylum).
Pudsey Bear note goes for £18,600 at auction (The Courier).
Which Tajik should appear on their banknotes? (Global Voices).
This fiver went for £4,150 at a Bank of England charity auction (This is Money) But £50,000? (Birmingham Mail). And they can melt (Birmingham Mail). The secrets a laser reveals (Birmingham Mail).
Scotland's own fiver enters circulation (BBC News).
Overseas Filipinos can now exchange more of their soon-to-be-worthless bills (GMA News).
Imagining a cashless world (The New Yorker)."Cash is the squirmy ferret of societal wealth--tricky to secure physically and once liberated in the wild, almost impossible to get back."
Alaska's seasonal demand for paper money (Alaska Dispatch News).
Donald Trump's image to appear at a Spink's auction of casino paper (Coin World). It's Huuuuge.
Civil War shinplasters (Coin World).

De La Rue's security thread in new Bahamain notes (De La Rue). And here (Secura Monde).
Analysts' ratings for De La Rue (Financial Market News).
Reconnaissance High Security Printing Asia Conference, December 5-7. Singapore (Reconnaissance)
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Counterfeit detection taught online by former Secret Service forensics expert (Coin World). The company's website is here (Counterfeit Forensics, LLC).
She did it, she says, because Barack Obama allowed it (The American Bazaar).
Daniel Huntington's "The Counterfeit Note" is to be auctioned (Doyle).

(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
Ink World Magazine (Ink World).
Middle East Printer (MEprinter). Website homepage.
Let's Talk Payments (LTP). Fintech website homepage.

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