News & Notes, Volume I, No. 10

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 09/01/2015 - 19:14

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

Dr. Ursula Kampmann's petition. And more from Kampmann this week on some practical absurdities of laws regarding cultural artifacts.

New and brighter New Zealand banknotes.
Transforming English banknotes into their Scottish variant, to make a point.
More Singapore mistakes from the past. And when errors become lucrative.
Bernard von NotHaus doesn't look so bad, in comparison.
It's risky to base a relationship on just on a €20 note.
Stack's Bowers rakes it in, from CoinWeek. Also, the upcoming Long Beach auction.
Creating "Demis" out of Canadian currency for Quebecois.
It looks like bacon, if that's any consolation.
Zambian notes for the blind.
A push in Pakistan to retire Rs 5,000 banknotes.
Redemption for Macau's zodiac banknotes.
Exeter Pounds soon to be in circulation. And a report on Brixton Pounds.
A short survey of Korean currency over the millennium.
Designing a banknote at the Peoples History Museum in Manchester.
This time it's a Yen emoji.
The Zim Dollar is nearly history (from CoinsWeekly). Math skills in that country will surely decline as a result.
Lobbying for Harriet Tubman. And there is a movement, Women on 20s.
Her Majesty ages gracefully (from Coin World)
Rouhani introduces a 500,000 Rial banknote.
An iPhone case designed to look like a 200 Euro note.
Money map prints by Justine Smith.

Justine Smith's Money Map of Africa

Counterfeiting in India is reported to be on the rise. And India makes it less worthwhile for banks to detect counterfeit notes.
A U.S.-India MoU.
It would be even worse if he had cheated the dancers.
Way to stand out.
Counterfeiting in Niger.
They were scrupulous about their serial numbers

Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
"Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
The Sixth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Security Printing Watermark Conference-2015, Sochi, Russia September 22-24, 2015.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
MRI Bankers' Guide
Banknoter
Numismondo
CoinsWeekly, especially its fine list of links to museums and other numismatic resources.
Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique d'Argenteuil)
AFEP: Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Fantasy Banknotes (I honestly do not know what to make of this).

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