News & Notes Volume II, No. 25

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

Viola Desmond will be on the new Canadian $10 note (Globe and Mail). Steven Bron summarizes the story well (Steven Bron).
ARTICLE: The Imagery and Themes of the Series 7 "Brighter Money" Banknotes (Bulletin, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, pdf). Comprehensive and beautifully-illustrated article, well recommended.
Secret symbols in Chinese occupation-era banknotes (Smithsonian, via IBNS Forum).
Thian's confederate currency album for sale (E-Sylum).
The costs of making U.S. currency (Business Insider, video, via E-Sylum).
Switching from Rials to Tomans? No problem (Financial Tribune).
Does your fiver have a micro-portrait of Jane Austen? It could be worth thousands (BBC)
Cryptocurrencies for space colonies? (SSRN).
New Saudi banknotes and coins (Asharq al-Awsat).
Spink's banknote auction for January 2017 (COINWeek).
Malaysian 500 Ringgit set up for auction at Stack's Bowers (Stack's Bowers).
Venezuela to pull 100 Bolivar notes to fight "mafias" (UPI). Even after the Central Bank announced plans for a 20,000 Bolivar note. More here (Reuters). And here (BBC). Struggling to make sense of this (TRT International).
In the meantime, this is what Venezuela's new notes will look like (el Universal, in Spanish but the images are self-explanatory).
The new Indian Rs 2,000 notes are now being hoarded (Scroll.in). They do not contain radioactive ink (India Today).
An update on India's assault on cash (The Wall Street Journal).
Chinese hongbao is going digital (Quartz).
Pearl Harbor and paper money (Coin World).
More on the animal fat controversy (COINWeek). Good summary with many links.

The army is called up to help India print its notes (DNA).
India to import 20,000 tons of currency paper (The Dollar Business).
Cooperation on banknote authentication (WhatTheyThink?).
De La Rue to acquire Dupont's banknote authentication unit (WhatTheyThink?). And here (Evening Express).
India's Bank Note Press brings back retirees to meet the crush (The Hindu).
Why India didn't engage with foreign banknote printers (Business Standard). "Mahatma Gandhi fought for Swadeshi... Does it behoove us to print his photograph on imported paper? Does India not have the entrepreneurs to make paper in India?" De La Rue: We are not involved (The Economic Times).
A digital Krone for Denmark? (Live Bitcoin News). The Dakar digital dollar (Live Mint).
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

She thought she was buying counterfeit currency, but got put through hell instead (Gb Times).
Counterfeiting on the "Dark Web" (Securing Industry).
Adolph Burger, of Operation Bernhard, is dead (E-Sylum, with link to Wapo obit).

(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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