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Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 11/10/2015 - 12:00

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

Tukutuku, what is it anyway? (Scoop). And New Zealand wasn't totally prepared (Stuff.co.nz).
The 20 Euro note is "a milestone in banknote technology" (Morgenpost, in German).
It's an achievement of some sort, but a sad one nonetheless (Fast Company).
Strength in the collectors' market (Numismatic News).
Anti-immigrant sentiments scrawled on currency in Germany (Rosenheim24.de, in German).
The high price of spite (metro.co.uk). And "Granny shreds 950,000 Euro to punish her heirs" (Die Welt, in German).
Welcome to cashless Sweden, Bloomberg Business (Youtube, video).
New Georgian banknotes (Armenpress). And here (Agenda.ge).
Cash and the Zero Lower Bound (BusinessInsider).
Update on the proposed German cultural heritage law (CoinsWeekly).
Do you know the vocabulary of banknotes? (Boursier.com, in French).
Obsolete millions found in the renovation of St. Agnes Church (Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger, in German).
The Museum of Online Museums (coudal.com). Something for everybody.

It hurts my eyes to even look at this (dpa)

The name still means something (Bloomberg).
Buy it here, where else? (Alibaba).
A mass shredding in India, thanks to a costly mistake (Die Welt, in German).
Somehow this does not make me feel good (Coin Update, via E-Sylum).
New polymer production in Wigton (in-Cumbria). And from the BBC (BBC).

He just can't stop being bad (Evening Standard).
I wish my sock drawer were as well organized (Evening Standard).
Serbian fakes (InSerbia News). "Our market is not so interesting to large counterfeiters."
A big Prague forgery case (Prague Daily Monitor).
This crook's problem was that he was out of shape (WSB-TV Atlanta).
Behind that Philippine demonetization (CNN Philippines). And from the Philippines Information Agency (PIA).

SCWPM, Modern Issues, 21st edition (Numismaster).

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.
Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes)
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News
Tom Chao
Stevenbron Banknotes
Scotsbanknotes
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.).
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
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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