Currency Coming and Going​

• Meet the Bank of England's new Chief Cashier at the BoE's Museum (Bank of England).
• Charter number overprints on national bank notes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Federal Reserve launches app for children (Cash Matters). "Follow Buck the dog as he sniffs out the interesting aspect of cash in the Board of the Federal Reserve's new app, Money Adventures." The press release is here (BOG of the FRS).
• SPMC underwrites exhibit cash awards at the IPMS (Numismatic News).
• FUN Ambassador Awards (Numismatic News).
• Results of of Heritage's January auctions (Coinweek). And here (Coin World). And Canadian currency highlights (Coin World).
• A primer on Irving Fisher (Cato Institute).
• In Malaysia, you can now reserve your Chinese New Year angpow online (The Star).
• Israeli law for reducing cash use is now in effect (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The travails of Continental currency (Journal of the American Revolution).
• Hindus want Australia's currency to be beef-free (MENA FN).
• Forty-one years earlier, India demonetized banknotes for the first time (The Print).
• Narendra Modi proposed "shagun" banknotes of Rs 11 and Rs 21 denominations (The Print). The anthropology of the Re 1 note (The Quint). From November 2015. When the 1 rupee note turned one hundred (Story Crux). From November 2017.
• World's largest value banknotes (Radio Free Europe).
• A banknote auction in Bahrain (The Daily Tribune).
• Renminbi banknote scenery, cont. (CGTN).
• A new currency unit for Japan? (Nippon).
• Mauritius old Rs 2,000 notes to lose their legal tender status (Bank of Mauritius).
• The Bolivia chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Nepal bans high-denomination Indian notes (National Herald).
• Mark Wagner reinvents the U.S. Dollar (American Numismatic Society). From September 2017.
• Frances E. Spinner, Father of Fractional Currency (PMG Notes). From August 2015.

                    New Banknote Issues

• The new Bolivian Bs 100 banknote (Secura Monde). And here (Steven Bron).
• Eastern Caribbean Central Bank looks forward to polymer (Searchlight). And here (Loop).
• Sudan's new 100 dinar note (MRI Bankers Guide).
• Paraguay's complete set of 2017 series banknotes now in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• New Mauritius Rs 2000 notes (Coin World).
• No new 20.000 franc notes for Tahiti (La Depeche de Tahiti, in French). And here (Radio New Zealand).
• Possibly a 50,000 ariary banknote for Madagascar? (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Syria's 50 pound banknote is replaced by a coin (Coin Update). An ugly coin.

             About the Banknote Industry

• What the American Banknote Corporation has been up to lately (Cision).
• Spectra Systems extends sensor service contract with unidentified banknote printer (Shares Magazine).
• The threat of a cashless world (Reconnaissance). And here (The Future of Cash).