News & Notes Volume I, No. 32

• Women on American currency, cont. (New York Times).
• "Lucky Money" during the Tet Celebration (The Garden City Telegram).
• Georgia releases "brighter" 20 and 50 GEL notes (Agenda).
• To protest Hillary Clinton, college students threw paper money into the air (Mother Jones).
• One possible new face for the Scottish tenner: Mary Somerville (The Courier).
• Who would you put on the face of a Welsh banknote? (WalesOnline).
• Backstory to the fishboat on an old Canadian $5 (Times Colonist).
• Do those 500-Euro notes finance terrorism? (Financial Times).
• Drum roll...IBNS's Banknote of the Year is...? (Coin World). The Gambia is hopeful (Freedom Newspaper).
• Scottish bus company refuses to take mom's Scottish banknote (Daily Record).
• Stronger colors coming on the P100 note (Rappler).
• He kept track of his days of imprisonment with paper money (Time).
• Too much cash is a bad thing for Vietnam (Brave New Coin).
• Nellie McClung on Canadian currency? (Huffington Post). And here (CBC News). There's a little politics to it, perhaps (CBC News).
• Thinking that $10 Hamiltons will become collectable? Don't (Market Watch).
• The New Jersey towns of Paterson and Weehawken petition to keep Hamilton on the $10 (Paterson Times). Hamilton founded Paterson as a manufacturing center, and then died from the wounds he received during the duel in Weehawken.
• Why Germans use cash to the extent that they do (Quartz). This is a bit old, but relevant to current discussions elsewhere, such as Australia (ANZ). Cash isn't even dying (City A.M.). But maybe "the war on cash is just getting started" (Money Week). And from Bloomberg: "Bring on the Cashless Future."
• "Cash for your Warhol" (AtlasObscura, via E-Sylum).
• Excerpts from Roger Lowenstein's America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve, concerning the issue of clearinghouse certificates (E-Sylum). I enjoyed this book, particularly its account of Paul Warburg's role in the public debate and subsequent legislative outcome.
• Whatever happened to the $2 bill? (The News-Gazette).

• Analyst upgrade of De La Rue (Risers and Fallers). Fortress Paper downgraded (Corvus Business).
• Asset purchases by Spectra Systems (Stock Market Wire). It's rated a buy (Risers and Fallers).
• Questioning the Reserve Bank of India's currency standards (The Indian Express).
• REPORT: Releasing the Flow of Digital Money (Imperial College, London, and Citigroup--pdf). Some commentary here (Pinsent Masons).

• Forgers of Lebanon's LL20,000 notes (Daily Star).
• Fake golden 100 Yuan notes for the Lunar New Year (ejinsight).
• Counterfeit money for sale in Vietnam, online (Tuoitrenews).
• Hybrid Zimbabwean-Hong Kong notes are back (Hong Kong Free Press). How do these fool anyone with eyes in their head?
• He printed it on toilet paper (ITV). Huh?
• Son of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius questioned about forgeries (Brussels Times). "It is said to be connected to his love of casinos."
• Bogus Benjamins in Santa Barbara County (Crime News).

                                 Fake currency for sale in Vietnam (Tuoitrenews).