News & Notes Volume II, No. 38

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

New Hungarian Forint notes (Banknote News).
New security features for India's Rs 10 note (Business Today).
Pros and cons of eliminating cash (Washington Examiner).
More on Zim bond notes eBay popularity (Numismatic News). Gresham's Law, on the march (Zimbabwe Daily).
What would a Marine Le Pen victory in France do to the CFA franc? (All Africa, in French).
Le Pen touts a new French franc that would fluctuate (Bloomberg).
Deadline for Filipino banknote redemption is March 31 (SunStar).
India's post-demonetization cash limits are officially over (India Today).
How Dogecoin lives on (Coin Desk).
The prison economy, and its various currencies, including mackerel (Youtube video). Highly interesting.

The UAE's first banknote printing plant (The National).
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).

Two million fake Euros found in a Kosovo taxi (BBC).
More fake notes from the "Manoranjam Bank of India" (The Times of India).
Swapping movie money for real cash in a Wal-mart safe (Fox 35).
'Cash' the dog's big train bust (BBC).
Ghana is sure that its new 5-cedi note can't be counterfeited (Pulse).
Cameroonian, arrested in Kenya, had suitcases of fake U.S. currency (Cameroon Concord).
Quantum counterfeiting (Science News). And for the more scientifically literate, "Experimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money" (Nature).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
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 Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
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).
Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
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).
Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
PYMNTS.com (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).
De La Rue (Company website).
Secura Monde International (Company website). Good banknote news feed.
Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
Patronus Systems (Company 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)
French Banknotes of War (Collector's website). Abundant material in English and French.
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Guild of Independent Currencies (promotes local currencies in the U.K.)
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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