Currency Coming and Going

• Bitcoin vs. paper currency, in historical perspective (CATO Institute).
• For what it's worth, Venezuela is getting its banknotes printed where it can (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• "Faulty" currency in circulation in Barbados (Barbados Today).
• "Peak cash"? Not in New Zealand (Stuff).
• Events at the upcoming ANA National Money Show (Coinweek).
• Yemen's new 1,000 rial note (Steven Bron).
• Colombia plans to redenominate the peso this March (Panorama del San Jorge, in Spanish).
• Could Nigeria go cashless? (Punch).
• The Vegas "crypto strippers" (NewsBTC).
• New edition of SCWPM, modern issues (Numismatic News).
• Burned and water-damaged, but still collectible (Coin World).
• A paean to Australian banknotes (CNBC).
• NGC's new London office (Numismatic News).
• Those crazy $2 bills (E-Sylum). And where the 1976 design came from (E-Sylum).
• Howard A. Daniel in the IBNS Hall of Fame (E-Sylum).
• Numismatics at the British Museum (Artdaily, via E-Sylum).
• Monitoring banknote-throwing at the Tran Temple festival (Vietnam.net).
• Victoria Cleland's liquidity preferences (The Guardian).
• Swiss government mulls making its banknotes valid indefinitely (SWI).
• Celebrity short snorter signatures (Numismatic News).
• Upcoming Kagin's auction includes Carlson R. Chambliss FRN collection (Coin Update). And encased postage stamps (Numismatic News).
• Facing heart attack, this Chinese man got attention with cash (South China Morning Post).
• Reserve Bank of India to begin testing polymer notes (Deccan Herald).
• "The Cash Cannon" (The Cash Cannon). Not endorsing--just reporting.
• Philippine mall's misuse of joss paper (Taiwan News).
• 162 years of the Greenback (Inverse).

                              The Greenback, 162 years old (Wikimedia Commons)