News & Notes Volume III, No. 43                         April 17, 2018

 

Currency Coming and Going

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• Higgins Museum seminar set for July 26 and will feature national banknote topics (Coin World).
• The origins of Israel's banknotes (Haaretz).
• India's Electoral Bonds meant to replace cash in campaign finance (The Hindu).
• Yes, you can still use your Canadian Tire Money (MoneySense). What people have spent Canadian Tire Money on in the past (Maclean's). What Canadian Tire Money rarities can be worth (Maclean's).
• Stormy Daniels raked in the greenbacks "like autumn leaves" (Inquisitr).
• Heritage sale features Iraq notes (Numismatic News).
• Macedonia's new polymer notes (Steven Bron).
• Municipal government of Caracas to issues its own parallel currency, the "Caribe" (Diario Sur, in Spanish). 
• A temple decorated with currency for the Tamil New Year (Youtube, video).
• Colombian legislature proceeds to lop off three zeros from the currency (El Tiempo, in Spanish).
• A misspelling on a Bolivian banknote? (erbol, in Spanish).
• Moves towards a single currency for East Africa (All Africa).
• Gujarati folk singer showered with banknotes at concert (Times of India, video).
• Indian ATMs experience some cash shortages (Livemint).
• Nigerian Muslims offended by lack of Arabic on certain naira banknotes (Sahara Reporters). And here (Nigeria News).
• When displaying a banknote gets a journalist thrown out of a soccer stadium (Calciomercato). Here is Twitter feed commentary, in Italian (Twitter).
• The German propensity to save (Art Daily, via e-Sylum).
• A young Canadian currency collector (Carlyle Observer).
• More on banknote letterpress protective printing (E-Sylum).
• A history of American currency, according to Teen Vogue (Teen Vogue).
• A Mumbai banknote exhibit (Mid Day).
• BOOK: Howard A. Daniel III's The Catalog and Guidebook of Southeast Asian Coins and Currency, Vol. I, 3rd ed. (Wizard Coin).
• BOOK: Callaway and Murphy, The Paper Money of Scotland (Youtube, video, via E-Sylum).
• Museum artifacts on display from the Titanic include a $10 bill (KWBU)

     

   Rescued from the Titanic and on display at the Mayborn Museum in Waco, TX (KWBU)

                            

About the Banknote Industry​ Banknote printing controversy delays Kenyan notes (The Star). Crane Currency's new "Motion Surface" security feature (Secura Monde, with video link). Giesecke + Devrient reports good results yoy (Giesecke + Devrient). India's Bank Note Press revs up to meet unexpected currency demand (Business Standard). Turkish students invent an ATM for disinfecting banknotes (Anadolu Agency). SAFE Collecting Supplies to attend Central States (Digital Journal). Interview with Antonio Riccio of LandQart, Swiss security paper company (Central Banking).            Upcoming Industry Conferences 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).

              From the Annals of Crime

• Scammers pretend to be federal marshals fighting counterfeiting (The Amarillo Pioneer).
• Big counterfeiting operation broken up in Israel (Hamodia).
• Sydney hit with counterfeit A$ 100's (Daily Mail).
• These Manchester burglars lost their cash in the wind (Evening Standard, with video).
• Minnesota coin dealer sells counterfeits (Coinweek).
• Become an expert in spotting fakes (SomersetLive).
• ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).

Websites to Like                                                (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