News & Notes, Volume I, No. 3

Ottmar Hoerl's Euro sculpture is being refurbished, just in time (then again, maybe too late).
Early sighting of a Drachma, perhaps apocryphal.
The demand for new banknotes during Eid.
The premium market for Indian one rupee notes. "These notes are also woven into currency garlands."
As it drops in value, the Bolivar is being repurposed.
She won a design contest for the new £5 Bank of Scotland note .
Design nominations are being taken for the next £20 bank note.
Profiles of banknotes from Eufaula, SC , Newnan, GA, and Moline, IA, from the upcoming Manifest Auction.
Robert Morris on the $10 Silver Certificate (Stacks Bowers, via CoinWeek)
Waterlow banknotes, offered by Spink (via CoinWeek)
Five possible female scientists to accompany Hamilton.
The UAE will add to its supply of banknotes with denominations in Braille. Zambia plans to do the same (from Banknote News).
New Saudi notes planned (from Banknote News).
An upside down Mao watermark (via E-Sylum)
Good luck with that cash flow.
German "Neidermayer" banknotes in Persia (in German).

New banknote validators for Euro currency.
Photonic Sintering.

"He stood to gain a biscuit." 
“It hurts to lose $90, but it’s also the principle." And more bad $100s here.
Counterfeit poker chips in Atlantic City.
Fiddling polymer banknote contracts.
Profile of Abel Buell, from the New England Historical Society.

Wendell Wolka on counterfeiting, from Coin World.

Ball's Collecting Confederate Bonds, 2nd edition (video via CoinWeek)