From the Annals of Crime

• ATM bombers under arrest in Germany (OCCRP).
• LAX cargo handler convicted of stealing gold bars (Coinweek).
• Maple Leaf fraud (Coinsweekly).
• Every minute they are born (Coinsweekly).
• "Fake notes network" in India (Tehelka).
• Camel-toe toonies (The Globe and Mail). "Who’s gonna counterfeit a toonie? That’s exactly why you counterfeit a toonie: Because nobody looks.”
• Australia plagued by $50 and $100 counterfeits (MRI Bankers' Guide).

                        Websites to Like

• (in no particular order) Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads) Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library) Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum) The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).  New York Toll Script and Tokens (Collector 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) Cigar History Museum's coupon gallery Boordgeld (Dutch ships' money) Depression Scrip (emergency money of the 1930s, and more) Wisconsin Depression Scrip Caishen's Temple-Asia Money Minnesota Nice The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock). Curious Banknotes (British Transition Towns, British 20th century vouchers, Micronations). 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). 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) My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip") 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). Giesecke & Devrient (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, numismatic website run by Ursula Kampmann. German-language version is here. Content is not identical. Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique  d'Argenteuil) 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 (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics) A Library of Scrip and Local Currency Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art). Pakistani Currency