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News & Notes Volume III, No. 38

March 13, 2018

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

Currency Coming and Going

The Bank of Canada's "Inflation Busters" video game (CBC). And why is the new note vertical? (Huffpost). Balancing history and security (Calgary Herald). And the Bank of Canada's video (Youtube).
A Chinese banknote checker (Xinhua).
The earliest known American gold certificate? (E-Sylum).
IBNS educational forum in London (E-Sylum).
Nigerian drops "weird" currency in the collection plate (Information Nigeria).
Another report on Canada ending some legal tender status (Coin World).
A rare New Zealand postal note (New Zealand Herald).
The king is dead. Long live the king (Straits Times). And here (Banknote News).
Venezuela to introduce new watermark on its 100,000 bolivares note (MRI Bankers Guide). Which will make everything better.
New from the BEP: "Homefront" (Coinweek).
Malaysian banknotes at auction (The Star).
Ukraine to replace some banknotes with coins (Kyiv Post). Moldova too (Secura Monde).
A Minnesota national bank note that survived (Numismatic News).
Croatian app launched by scanning banknotes (The Dubrovnik Times).

Michelle Marselle, of the Bank of Canada, with the new $10 bill (Calgary Herald)

About the Banknote Industry

De La Rue staffs up its Malta facility (Independent).
Security inks to be highlighted at upcoming Dublin conference (Print Week).
Ireland to cease printing euro banknotes (Independent).

Upcoming Industry Conferences

Security Printers 2018, Dublin, Ireland, March 21-23 2018 (Security Printers)
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

Another "Movie Money Bandit" (Waukesha Patch).
Anti-counterfeiting educational foundation (E-Sylum).
What to know when photocopying Canadian banknotes (Mondaq).
Counterfeiting at the advent of photography (New York Times).

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

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News & Notes Volume III, No. 38

March 13, 2018

Currency Coming and Going

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