Currency Coming and Going​

• "When Spokane Made Cash" (The Spokesman-Review).
• A history of the Luxembourg franc (RTL Today).
• Two bits of paper: one currency, the other debt (Moneyness).
• The sorry state of naira notes (The Nation).
• Poll says Scots are against having their own currency (The Scotsman).
• Why Canada's $10 note is vertical (Quartz).
• Another report on the Basque "eusko" (Coin World).
• Poll Parrot Shoe Money (SPMC).
• The things you can do to a euro banknote (European Central Bank, Youtube video).

     The Business of Collecting

• Exhibit award winners from the 2019 National Money Show (Numismatic News).
• BoE notes from the Lou Manzi collection (CoinNews).
• Another BOTY announcement (Steven Bron). And here (Coin World).
• PMG hires a Currency Finalizer (CDN Publishing).
• What's up at the Toronto Coin Expo (Coinweek).
• North Carolina colonials included hand-written notes (Coinweek).
• Sometimes the numismatic business makes no sense (Coinweek).

        International Paper Money Show, Kansas City 2019

• IPMS Show website.
• Sign up for the 58th Anniversary Breakfast at the IPMS, Kansas City, June 14, 2019 (SPMC).
• While at this year's IPMS, sign up for a FREE tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, June 13, 2019 (SPMC).

     New Banknote Issues

• Ghana's new cedis (Peace FM). And here (All Africa).
• Two Danish 50 kroner varieties (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• New variety of Philippine's 500 peso note (Banknote News).
• Burundi revamps its banknote series (La Banque de la République du Burundi, in French). Also here (MR Bankers' Guide).
• Sudan's new 500 pound banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Another China note announcement (Banknote News).
• Mexico's new variety 200 peso banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Armenian banknotes are highly regarded by the IACA (Armbanks).
• Unisys contract with the U.S. Mint (Executive Biz).
• Koenig & Bauer reports first quarter results (What They Think).
• Crane Currency gets out of the golf business (The Berkshire Eagle).
• Oberthur Fiduciaire takes over the printing works of the Bulgarian National Bank (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Giesecke + Devrient's Galaxy security thread (Giesecke + Devrient).
• Pitfalls of a cashless society (World Economic Forum).
• South Africa Reserve Bank's award-winning currency education app (hypertext).
• Fifty years of the Eurocheque (Giesecke + Devrient). And here (Geldscheine-online, in German).

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                       Fifty years of the Eurocheque (Geldscheine-online).