News & Notes Volume II, No. 48

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

Jane Austen's "bracing martini" (Business Insider).
Pathogenic paper money (CNBC). The original study is here (Frontiers in Microbiology).
The "airbrushing" of Jane Austen? (Yahoo Finance).
After helping distributing the new notes, the Indian armed forces will retire the old ones (News 18).
New Swiss 10-Franc note (Steven Bron).
44 years of the UAE's Dirham (The National).
Polymer banknotes' Australian origins (Lifehacker).
Against going cashless (Bloomberg).
The Zim Dollar may return (Daily News). "There is widespread panic among both businesses and ordinary Zimbabweans alike..." The gold backing will...come out of the ground (All Africa).
Depression-era "Wheat Scrip" (E-Sylum).
Father's shredded money no good at bank (Metro).
Venezuelan 100-Bolivar notes get yet another lease on life (Latin American Herald Tribune).
Senegal's digital currency (African Business)
In the BEP's 2016 production, the $1 wins out (Coin World).
Austria-Hungary chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
Alberta town's "Cochrane Dollars" (CBC News).

De La Rue's passport to prosperity (The Herald). And here (The Telegraph).
More on Giesecke & Devrient's "Currency Technology" (Ink World).
How the Lanquart Paper Mill makes banknote paper (BBC).
Reconnaissance high security printing conference-Latin America, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 19-21, 2017 (Reconnaissance).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Christian Meadows, Vermont counterfeiter (Vtdigger).
"Frankenstein notes" (Steven Bron).
What amazing rats (Gulf News).
Brute automotive force got these thieves into a coin shop (KY3).
Casino staff had a nose for dirty cash (The Courier Mail).

(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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