News & Notes Volume III, No. 29

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

Colombian banknote proofs at auction (Coinweek). And specimen UAE notes (Coinweek).
These could be Kenya's new banknotes (Quartz).
Cape Verde retires banknotes (Steven Bron).
The BEP's image gallery (E-Sylum). And the BEP's "Happy Birthday" notes (E-Sylum). Its World War I intaglio prints are also for sale (Coin News).
Ten-yuan note featured in Heritage Hong Kong sale (Numismatic News).
China moves towards cashlessness (E-Sylum).
The many numismatic resources of Frankfurt, Germany (CoinsWeekly).
Dutch central bank gives employees unspendable Christmas cash (Coin World).
Freedom and Liberty in the upcoming issue of Coin World (Coin World).
Korea's commemorative Olympic notes a big hit (Chosun).
Stamping dollars so they circulate in black communities (San Francisco Bay View).
"Numismatic products" galore, here and here and here (Banknote News). And Madagascar's fantasy notes (Steven Bron).
Mauritanian currency traders do a good business in the new year (Middle East Online).
Bank of Scotland's charity auction (Banknote News).
Mutilated notes said to affect the Liberian forex market (Front Page Africa).
Vietnamese "Lucky Money" increases in value as Tet approaches (Vietnam Plus). The State Bank of Vietnam again passes on printing low-denomination notes (Viet Nam News).
Despite the Euro, Slovak banknotes are still in circulation (The Slovak Spectator).
India's new chocolate 10 rupee note (Indian Express).
Converting demonetized Indian currency into stationery (Financial Express).
"Cholera in Your Purse?" (Times of Zambia).
Currency history in Mansfield, Ohio (Richland Source).

Crane & Co.'s bad Venezuelan debt (The Berkshire Eagle).
What the merger of the two Cranes might mean (What They Think?)
De La Rue's continued Kenyan troubles (Financial Times). Might be gated, sorry.
De La Rue prints Botswana's new polymer notes (De La Rue). And here (Secura Monde).
High Security Printing Conference Europe, Warsaw, Poland, February 19-21, 2018 (Reconnaissance).
Optical Document Security Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 24-26, 2018 (Reconnaissance).
Security Printers 2018, Dublin, Ireland, March 21-23 2018 (Security Printers)
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).

Azerbaijan ups the ante in fight against fakes (Trend News Agency).
A bad check and a numismatic crime foiled (Coinweek).
Morocco busts up counterfeit network (MENA FN).
Aussie arrested for stealing $100 Trillion dollars (The Daily Telegraph).
More commentary on Mark Hofmann (E-Sylum).

(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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