News & Notes Volume II, No. 28

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

Jane Austen to debut this spring (Daily Mail).
One of those microengraved fivers was found in a Christmas card (Somerset Live).
What happened when Venezuela outlawed its own currency (New York Times). Where are the new Bolivar notes? (Merco Press).
India's demonetization, two months on (Quartz). With timelines. And another summary from Reuters (Reuters).
Stack's Bowers auction preview (Coin Update). And here (Numismatic News).
Luxembourg's local currency, the Beki (Luxemburger Wort).
In 1866, the Shield Nickel took a shinplaster's place (Coin World).
Food superstitions, and their monetary symbolism, for the New Year (TWC News). Sauerkraut as money (Chicago Tribune).
Q. David Bowers remembers Dick Doty (COINWeek).
Robert Owen's Labor Exchange notes (E-Sylum). And similar currency in the United States (E-Sylum).
Special serial-numbered notes for special people (E-Sylum).
New security features on Paraguay's currency (Steven Bron).
I ndonesian Islamists take issue with non-Muslim, non-headscarf and -veil wearing "heroes" on their banknotes (Die Welt, in German).
Fancy serial numbers on defunct Indian notes still worth something (The Siasat Daily).
Speculation about what India's new R1000 note might look like (India.com).

Disagreement over where Uganda's banknotes will be printed (All Africa).
Labor unrest inhibits the printing of India's new banknotes (The Quint).
Profile of the Swiss banknote designer, Manuela Pfrunder (Frankfurter Allgemeine, in German).
De La Rue gets a foothold in India (The Quint).
India's new banknote paper facility (The Times of India).
Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Europe, Baku Azerbaijan, March 27-29, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 19-21, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
Security Document World conference, London June 26-28, 2017 (Security Document World).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

He tried to rob an ATM by blowing it up (Bangkok Post).
Saudis forge a check for 400m Riyals ($106m). (Al Arabiya). Always think big.
Colonial counterfeit detectors for sale (E-Sylum).
Short changing in Saigon (Tuoitrenews).

(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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