News & Notes Volume III, No. 44                         April 24, 2018

 

Currency Coming and Going

• EXHIBITION: Confederate Currency: The Color of Money (National Underground Railroad Freedom Center).
• Inscribed banknotes of the non-short snorter type (Numismatic News).
• Italy refuses to convert $1.8m worth of lira found in safe deposit into euros (International Adviser).
• Who Geordies want to see on their banknotes (Chronicle Live).
• The seven natural wonders on Seychelles' 500 rupee note (Seychelles News Agency).
• The mosque on Iran's 200 rial note (Mehr News Agency).
• Background on India's sudden currency shortage (Bloomberg).
• Designs released for Cumbria's Lake District Pound (Cumbria Crack). They will enter circulation May 1 (Times & Star).
• Cash put out for recycling? (New Zealand Herald).
• Harriet Tubman on hold (Daily Beast). And here (Numismatic News).
• Iran seizes large amounts of "contraband" currency (Radio Farda).
• Parents take their dead son's body to the bank to make a withdrawal, and to make a point (Khaleej Times).
• Measuring a Huntsman spider with a $5 note (Daily Mail). Ew.
• Stane Straus video on polymer banknotes (Youtube, via E-Sylum).
• Five valuable banknotes, by purchasing power (Business Tech).
• Call for speakers at the ANA Philadelphia World's Fair of Money (Coinweek).
• The last survivor of Operation Bernhard passes away (E-Sylum).
• A Canadian "devil's face" banknote? (E-Sylum).
• Another explanation of Switzerland's "Sovereign Money" initiative (Expatica).
• CHAPTER: The Philippines chapter of the Banknote Book is available (Banknote News).
• Higgins Museum seminar set for July 26 and will feature national banknote topics (Coin World).
•  Karl Marx's hometown honors him with a zero-euro banknote (Quartz). And here (Lonely Planet).

   

                                             Workers of the World, LOL (Lonely Planet)

About the Banknote Industry​ De La Rue gives up passport contract appeal (Insider.co). De La Rue may be the object of a takeover attempt (This is Money). Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG's Security Printing Day (Printing Impressions). KOMSCO hosts the Mint Directors Conference (Korea Times). Sequana completes divestment of Arjowiggins Security (EUWID). Komori's Indian operations (The Indian Express). Oberthur Fiduciare and VHP Security Paper (BDaily). India's Bank Note Press is cranking them out over lunch hour (Central Chronicle). Ink shortages? (NDTV). Crane Currency and Lindsay Goldberg (PE Hub Network). IQ Structures security printing technology (Face 2 Face Africa). Ireland's banknote printing plans (Numismatic News).            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

• Counterfeits in Curacao (Curacao Chronicle).
• Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the currency smuggling business? (Asharq Al-Awsat).
• Reserve Bank of Malawi keeps an eye on counterfeiting (Nyasa Times).
• The BSP's new coin security features (Philippines Information Agency).
• Profile of Robert Villaneuva, counterfeit fighter and "dark web sleuth" (FIU Magazine)
• More on the significant Australian counterfeit case (Pro Print). "The counterfeiter was only caught because a salesman was cleaning out one of the traded in machines a clear plastic sheet with an image of an Australian banknote fell out."
• Counterfeit detection with kitchen blender (9News, video, via E-Sylum). Alas, you need to destroy the bill in order to test if it is genuine.
• Indian fake money on the increase (Financial Express).
• ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for 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