News & Notes Volume III, No. 47

May 15, 2018

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

Currency Coming and Going

Alexander Hamilton document display includes obsolete banknotes (All Over Albany).
More on Venezuela's local currencies (CGTN America).
7 cool currencies (Q Costa Rica News).
New Zealand notes at auction by Mowbray Collectibles (Numismatic News).
No sign yet of Venezuela's bolivares soberanos (MRI Bankers Guide).
Belgium banknotes for sale at Stack's Bowers (Coinweek).
The future of payments (Barron's Next).
Leaves as currency? (Daily Mail).
A cashless Zuerich bakery (The Local).
Twenty-five years of Kyrgystan's currency (The Times of Central Asia).
African banknotes no longer in use (Face2face Africa).
Central Bank of Nigeria: be nice to our notes (Today Ng).
Rock carving found in China of early banknote (Xinhua).
Is Britain's 50 pound note on the chopping block? (Numismaster).
Rare Asian paper money auction results (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
A pricey Straits Settlements note at Spink auction (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
The national fungus on New Zealand's banknote (RNZ).
The IPMS speaker lineup (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
PAPER: The "Undemand for Money in Canada" (Bank of Canada).
Australia's National Banknote Site (The Age).

Unfit currency at Australia's National Banknote Site, to be shredded (The Age).

About the Banknote Industry

Central Bank of Nigeria's clean banknote policy (New Telegraph).
Spectra System's banknote project (Morningstar).
Reserve Bank of India ramps up its banknote production (DNA). Revisiting India's rules concerning mutilated and imperfect notes (The Economic Times).
The Reserve Bank of Australia's labor relations (Sydney Morning Herald). And here (ProPrint).
The Philippine Central Bank's Enhanced Cash Management (Numismaster).
Nanotech's new security feature product (Nasdaq). Nanotech acquires new lithography system (Global News Wire). And Nanotech's second quarter fiscal 2018 results (Global News Wire).
CCL Industries first quarter results (CCL Industries).

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

What thieves in Sweden go after when there's no cash (The Atlantic).
Australia to ban cash purchases above A$ 10,000 (Gizmodo).
Despite Australia's cashless society, Atlas the Labrador stays busy (Sydney Morning Herald).
More on the Bank of Israel's civil lawsuit against counterfeiters (The Yeshiva World). And here (The Jerusalem Post). And here (Bloomberg Quint).
Philippine's President Duterte calls for renewed fight against counterfeiting (GMA News). And here (Manila Bulletin).
"Mommy makes fake money" (Times Colonist).
ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).

In Australia, Atlas cashes in on crime (Sydney Morning Herald)

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

News & Notes Volume III, No. 47

May 15, 2018

Currency Coming and Going

About the Banknote Industry

Upcoming Industry Conferences

From the Annals of Crime

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