News & Notes Volume I, No. 37

• "Cash Talk" (The Economist)
• "Re-imagining Money" (The Atlantic).
• Private money (Cato Institute)
• The people who avoid using cash (NASDAQ)
• A rare Molière note (COINWeek).
• The world's most beautiful currencies (The Telegraph).
• Demonetization of old Pakistani notes (Business Recorder).
• The Japanese are splurging on safes (WSJ, via Breitbart).
• Confederate currency (E-Sylum, via Atlas Obscura). See also last week.
• Australian prisoner of war scrip (Stuff.com, via E-Sylum).
• Who ordered those Libyan Dinars? Not us! (Libya Herald).
• Stack's Bowers April Hong Kong sale (COINWeek).
• The laws that you probably can get away with breaking include defacing banknotes (The Guardian).
• A new UAE note for the visually-impaired (The National).
• An experiment in dropped money (Malaysian Chronicle).
• "Good and Bad Money", an art exhibition in Baden-Baden (Handelsblatt Global Edition).
• Fancy serial numbers at the Lyn Knight auction (Coin World).
• The Nazis wanted to bomb Britain with banknotes (The Smithsonian).
• Blanche Kelso Bruce: The first African-American whose signature appears on U.S. currency (The Weekly Challenger).
• BOOK: Michael E. Bonine, The Banknotes of the Imperial Bank of Persia (COINWeek).
• An update on the Banknote Book (E-Sylum).
• Continental currency plates (E-Sylum).

                                            Support hose (AFP, in The Economist)

• Nanotech's first quarter results (cantech letter).
• De La Rue's Malta operation will remain open, with reduced staffing (Malta Today).

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• I'm more surprised that at bratwurst cost that much (Bloomberg).
• Cheating the Girl Scouts (msn.com, via e-Sylum). Scum indeed.
• Fake Gambian banknotes (Freedom Newspaper).
• They made 50-Euro notes in their garage, sold them online for 10 Euros (Die Welt, in German). Isn't that how the best business models often start off?
• Detect fake Pakistani currency? There's an app for that (Daily Pakistan).
• An Omani workshop on counterfeiting and forgery (Muscat Daily).