News & Notes, Volume I, No. 44

• The painter JMW Turner will be the new face on the ￡20 note (Reuters). And here (CNN Money).
• Nan Shepherd will be on Scotland's £5 note (BBC)
• New Zealand's $5 wins "banknote of the year" award from IBNS (Stuff.co).
• New uses for Calgary Dollars (Calgary Dollars).
• Secretary Lew's letter announcing U.S. currency changes (reprinted in COINweek). The background and politics to the choice of Tubman for the $20, and other changes (New York Times). And biographical profiles of the new faces (New York Times). Donald Trump is against it (Cleveland.com).
• When "real live women" last appeared on American currency (Newsweek).
• Women on banknotes around the world (Vox). How about a woman on Indian currency? (Daily O).
• Most Americans don't know that Jackson is on the $20 in the first place (Rasmussen Reports). Statement from the PNG (COINWeek).
• A quantum banknote? (Sputnik).
• A twenty-five dollar bill? (Inverse).
• A 1907 Chinese banknote fetches $30,000 at Archives International auction (ARTFIX Daily).
• There will be no Welsh banknotes (Herald Scotland).
• A brief history of money from the British Museum (BBC).
• Update on Zimbabwe's cash shortage (All Africa). Zimbabwean depositors are resorting to "pillow banking" (Nehanda Radio). To be paid in cash, miners are smuggling gold to Mozambique (New Zimbabwe).
• Liberia restricts exports of physical cash (GNN Liberia).
• Islamic State has seen $500 million of its cash stockpile "incinerated" (CNBC).
• Artist folds money to make a point (SCNow).
• Acting green with shredded green (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco).
• Ten most bizarre banknotes ever, old post (Money Choice). 
• Portugal's Money Museum (Banco de Portugal).

                                             Jeff Darcy, from Cleveland.com

• Siegwerk India has a new CEO (Print Week).
• India's Security Printing and Minting Co. is back to making currency (Times of India).
• The DICE banknote system (Digital Journal).
• The Banknote Conference, May 23-26, Washington D.C. (Banknote Conference) Here is a description of the presentations to be made there.
• 4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).

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• "Faces of Counterfeiters Past" (The National Archives, via E-Sylum).
• Spotting fakes on eight currencies (The Telegraph).
• He tried to pay his jail bond with fake money (The Smoking Gun). Doh!
• Re-purposing $10 notes as $100s in Koreatown (The Korea Times).
• $11,000 shrink-wrapped and hidden in the toilet tank, and a gunman named Mo (Washington Post).
• Sheets of fake $20s left in the trash led to their arrests (Fox News).
• In Muskogee County, OK, officials are returning cash seized from a Burmese Christian rock band (Gawker).