News & Notes, Volume I, No. 16

• Scotland's "Pudsey" banknote (BBC). Fifty notes will be produced and auctioned.
• Discover the new 20 Euro banknote (video Crete Post, Youtube).
• Norway's forthcoming banknotes (twistedsifter.com).
• The problem of fake currency in Pakistan (Business Recorder).
• A gallery of Australian banknote designs (The Australian).
• For the rich, art is currency (Quartz).
• New Zealand's currency isn't disappearing anytime soon (Stuff.co.nz).
• Throwing money around in Handan, China (Daily Mail).
• "You Stink" protesters waving banknotes in Lebanon (Getty Images).
• Adding more women to Canadian banknotes, continued (Vancouver Sun). The petition is here.
• Banknotes that have neither tops nor bottoms (Die Welt, in German).
•  Argentina uses more paper money than ever (Clarin, in Spanish).
• New Cape Verde notes in circulation (macauhub.com).
• An interview with Alexander Hamilton (Columbia Spectator).
• Getting Cambodians to use their own currency (Knowledge@Wharton).
• Some spiritual advice from Nigeria (Vanguardngr.com)
• First-World problems (Plymouth Herald).
• Zambian kwachas (Getty Images).
• Myanmar's money counters have their job cut out for them (Getty Images). The workhorse 1,000 kyat note is worth less than $US 1.
• From baker to millionaire--or not (schwaebische.de, in German).
• "We don't accept Scottish notes" (Daily Record). Last week it was Northern Ireland's notes that had this problem.
• More about Strasbourg's new local money (Le Figaro, in French).
• Five reasons to celebrate the Brixton Pound (Timeout.com).
• Prospects for Georgia's currency (vestnickkavkaza.net).
• Celebrity banknote photoshops (freakingnews.com). The Donald Trump/ Thomas Jefferson mashup is disturbing.

                                 Scrutinizing New Zealand Currency (Stuff.co.nz)