News & Notes Volume I, No. 48

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 05/24/2016 - 09:41

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

Tickets are available for the SPMC breakfast at the 40th Memphis Convention! Here's what they look like. Order yours now here!

Central Bank of Nigeria calls for measures to bolster confidence in currency (All Africa). Good luck with that.
Could the U.S. Post Office issue digital currency? (Coin Desk).
Reintroducing a Biafran currency (Daily Post).
Papua New Guinea to commemorate its currency with postage stamps (EMTV).
Libya's "battle of the banknotes" (The Guardian).
Turkish Nobelist points out scientific flaw in currency (Hurriyet Daily News).
A $100 trillion windfall, Zimbabwe-style (The Timaru Herald).
Pranked with banknotes at the Newcastle Central Station (ChronicleLive)
"A Monetary History of Islamic Societies" (Daily Sabah).
New designs for Indian banknotes? (Kashmir Images). And here (Live Mint).
US banknote production (CoinNews).
More on Disney Dollars (Mouse Planet).
Lyn Knight's "spread eagle" auction (Coin World).
Results of the Heritage auction (Coin World).
Zimbabwe's cash crisis, continued (VoaZimbabwe)
First Zimbabwe, now Starbucks (Barron's).

De La Rue divests itself of Cash Processing Solutions (City A.M.) And here (The Telegraph).
De La Rue's strong order book (Chronicle Live).
Zimbabwe turns to Giesecke & Devrient to print its new "bond" banknotes (The Zimbabwe Mail). Of course, a German company has the contract to print a new series of hyperinflationary notes.
Giesecke & Devrient on display at the Banknote Conference in D.C. (ATM Marketplace).
Innovia to bid on polymer note contract (in-Cumbria).
Report from the April "Future of Cash" Conference in Paris (Gurufocus).
Holography, find out about it (Packaging News).
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).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Cash thefts in Japan that are a harbinger of something bad, bad (SC Magazine). And here (The Guardian).
Election bribery in Tamil Nadu goes underdetected (F. Business).
Are your rupees real? (Wall Street Journal).
The Castle Shannon bank robbery (E-Sylum).
Update on the anti-bribery "Zero Rupee" note (E-Sylum).
He paid for a lap dance with a bad Benjamin (The Blaze).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members).
The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money).
The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock).
COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content).
MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes).
Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World
Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book).
Tom Chao (collector's blog with active updates).
Stevenbron Banknotes (collector's blog with active updates).
Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more.
Scotsbanknotes
Counting on Currency (Industry website).
Currency Research (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website)
International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website).
International Banknote Designers Association (Industry website).
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.).
Where's George? (currency tracking project).
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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