News & Notes Volume III, No. 1

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

ISIS destroyed a Mosul mosque that appears on Iraq's 10,000 Dinar note (The Telegraph).
Nostalgia for Canadian Tire Money (Sault Star).
Nigeria's Naira over the years (NAIJ).
An initial coin offering (New York Times).
Cash's long reign (The Smithsonian).
Proposed Kurdish banknotes (AINA).
Using less cash, but printing more banknotes (The Telegraph).
Spink's spring banknote sale (Numismaster).
"Lines Written on a Bank Note" (Poem Hunter).
Where are those $100 notes? (Coin World).
Are Hong Kong banknotes particularly nasty? (South China Morning Post).
Brief reminiscences of Tang Xinyu, banknote designer (Youtube, with English subtitles).
Coin Television video of the 2017 IPMS (Youtube). More on Kansas City (Numismaster).
Ford Motor is repurposing shredded cash (The Street).
Oops (CNBC).
Bank of Canada Museum to re-open (Bank of Canada).
Why cash is still loved (Bloomberg). Or is cash falling out of fashion? (Scientific American).
How to photoshop money when Adobe doesn't want you to (Creative Market).
The artist Matthias Dörfelt imagines what Bitcoin would look like as paper money (Design Boom). Here is the artist's portfolio of "Block Bills" (Mokafolio).
A postmortem on the local currency experiment "Ithaca Hours" (Ithaca.com).
PMG has certified its two millionth note (COINWeek).

CCL Secure's (formerly Innovia) award-winning polymer substrate (Secura Monde).
Crane Currency's Nashua, N.H. operations (Union Leader).
Covestro fights forgery (Plastemart).
The Watermark Conference, July 4-6, 2017, Ykaterinburg, Russia (Watermark Conference).
Security Document World Conference, London June 26-28, 2017 (Security Document World).
The Asia Cash Cycle Seminar, September 11-14, 2017, Bangkok (ICCOS Asia).
The Holography Conference, November 16-17, Barcelona (Reconnaissance).
High Security Printing Conference Asia, December 4-6, 2017, Melbourne (Reconnaissance).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Joseph-Samuel Farinet, 19th-century counterfeiter (BBC).
Promoter of India's demonetization scheme found with fake currency (National Herald).
Counterfeit bill factoids (ATM Marketplace).

(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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