News & Notes Volume III, No. 27

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

Santa Claus on currency (Coinweek).
Now that's my kind of Santa (News.au).
Newman Numismatic Portal to feature David Lisot video collection (Coin Update).
Trans-Dniester issues commemorative ruble notes (Banknote News).
Query about the banknote engraver Robert Savage (E-Sylum).
Background to rare British Honduras note to be auctioned by Stack's Bowers (E-Sylum). And here (Numismatic News).
Edward VIII on banknotes (E-Sylum).
Singing in Russia's new 2000 ruble note (RT).
Tunisia's new 20-dinar note (Tekiano, in French).
Romania to change the coat of arms on its banknotes (MRI Bankers Guide).
Bitcoin through the eyes of John Law (MoneyWeek).
A look back at September's Spink sale (Numismaster).
Highlights of Heritage's FUN auction (CoinNews).
Bank of Taiwan issues something allegedly numismatic (Taiwan News).
Another account of collector Rezwan Razack (Quartz). Here is his blog.
MASTERS THESIS: Bryan Carl Bjorklund, "Saving Local Communities Using Scrip Money to Fight the Great Depression in North Central Iowa" (University of Northern Iowa, December 2017). This is a detailed study of the use of stamp scrip in Mason City, IA. Link is to a full pdf.
In Venezuela, a worthless currency accelerates a shift to U.S. dollars (Reuters). "In one grim festive joke, a Christmas tree in Maracaibo, the country’s oil capital and second city, was decorated with virtually worthless low-denomination bolivar bills."

The new technology in Armenia's Noah's Ark banknote (Coin Update).
Fortress Paper offloads stake in its Swiss security paper affiliate (EUWID Pulp and Paper). And here (Pulp & Paper Canada). Fortress Paper to focus on its Canadian pulp business (Canadian Manufacturing). The Swiss National Bank seeks to assure its security paper supply (BNN).
De La Rue is frozen out in Kenya (Standard Media).
High Security Printing Conference Europe, Warsaw, Poland, February 19-21, 2018 (Reconnaissance).
High Security Printing Conference Latin America, June 11-13, Dominican Republic (Reconnaissance).
Banknote 2018, May 21-24, 2018, Dallas, Texas (The Banknote Conference).
African Currency Forum, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, September 2-5, 2018 (African Currency Forum).
The Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Expo, Las Vegas NV, November 6-8, 2018 (News Anyway).

Fake bond notes in Zimbabwe (The Standard).
A roundup of Indian forgery in the last fiscal year (Hindustan Times).
Counterfeits in the Caribbean (St. Lucia Times).

(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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