Currency Coming and Going​

• How Ghana's currency has changed since 1957 (peacefm).
• Britain's "most honest village" (Daily Mail).
• Pakistan's Rs 5,000 notes aren't going anywhere (Daily Pakistan). 
• Switzerland relaxes obsolete currency redemption deadline (Swissinfo).
• How a steelworker got on China's banknotes (Xinhua, video). Recommended for period footage, a tad propagandistic.
• Gender and banknotes (Coin World).
• A new Emperor Norton note (E-Sylum).
• Watches inspired by banknotes and bling (A Blog to Watch).

                       Watch designs by Stephen Bliss (A Blog to Watch).

• Maracaibo and "Mad Max" (Cryptocurrency News).
• A visit to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis's Helena branch (KPVI).
• A digital yuan: it's all about control (Quartz). "Controllable anonymity"? (MIT Technology Review). And here (Bloomberg). What it might mean for the U.S. (CNN). Did Tunisia beat them to it? (The Daily Hodl).
• What Hungarian euro banknotes might look like (GOOD).
• The gymnastics Notgeld of Coblenz-Lützel (Geldscheine-Online, in German).
• How currency works in "Star Wars" (The Ringer). The Galactic Credit Standard (Wookiepedia).

     The Business of Collecting

• PCGS gets back into the business of banknote grading (Coin World).
• PMG slabs renminbi note collection (Coinweek).
• This Interest Bearing Note attracted a lot of interest (Numismatic News).
• Collectible facsimiles of Palestinian Mandate banknotes (E-Sylum).
• Selections from the upcoming Archives International sale (E-Sylum).
• A report on the Whitman Baltimore Coin Expo (E-Sylum). With a cameo by Pierre Fricke.
• A report on the International Coin Fair Zurich (Coinsweekly).

     New Banknote Issues

• Norway's new 1,000 krone note (Norges Bank). And here (The Local).
• Cuba's new commemorative banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Banknote News).
• North Korea 50 won commemorative (Banknote News).
• Argentina may ditch the animals on its banknotes (Professional, in Spanish). And here (Clarin, in Spanish).
• Liberian lawmakers want money before they'll vote for new money (Front Page Africa). "Ulterior Motives"? (Front Page Africa). "A Tragedy of Errors"? (Front Page Africa).
• Zimbabwe inflicted with new banknotes (Zimbabwe Daily). And here (Reuters, video).
• The two versions of Scotland's new £20 note (Steven Bron). And here (Coin Update).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Show, January 9-12, 2020 (FUN).
• New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC), January 16-19, 2020 (NYINC).
• 38th annual Paris Paper Money Show, Paris-Bagnolet, France, February 8, 2020 (AFEP).
• Annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, May 20-23, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky (AHPCS)
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC). Yes, that year is 2021.

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Crane Currency is making nice in Liberia (Front Page Africa).
• Metric Design's contributions to Norways new banknote series (Creative Boom).
• The life cycle of a banknote, video by the Bank of Canada (Youtube).
• Making sense of those bitcoin ATMs (ATM Marketplace).