News & Notes Volume II, No. 12

• EXHIBITION: Ukrainian history through its coins, banknotes, and stamps (The Ukrainian Weekly).
• Pre-decimal banknotes of Bermuda (Coin Update).
• Hong Kong banknotes raise funds for charity (South China Morning Post).
• CHAPTER: The Switzerland chapter of the Banknote Book is now available (Banknote News).
• The advent of Britain's polymer fivers (The Guardian). And the origins of the banknote (The Spectator).
• Piers Morgan is in hot water for destroying one of Britain's new notes (NME). With video of the dastardly deed.
• BoE Governor Mark Carney sticks his note into a tray of chicken curry (Financial Times).

• Will the new fiver "survive a pounding?" (Mirror). With sundry videos.
• History's most remarkable banknotes (BBC History Magazine).
• Inside the Bank of England's vaults (The Telegraph).
• Waterman Lily Ormsby and his dicey clientele (Coin World).
• The birth and death of paper money (The Spectator).
• Russian rubles, close up (Russia Beyond the Headlines).
• Colonial notes in upcoming MintProducts auction (Numismatic News).
• Occupation currency for a Soviet-controlled NATO? (Coin World).
• A history of St. Peter's (MN) banks (Mankato Free Press).
• Govt: No return to the Zim dollar (Zimbabwe Independent).
• Another Rogoff interview, video (Bloomberg)

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• Fake currency got him a goat in Pakistan (Daily Times).
• A trail of banknotes led to their capture (Metro, via E-Sylum).
• Britain's new fiver and the war against counterfeiting (Gizmodo).
• The police have a new way of taking your cash (GCN).
• Russian anticorruption chief caught with $140 MILLION in cash (Russia Beyond the Headlines).
• Thwarting criminals by taking their cash (Harvard Gazette). Another interview with Kenneth Rogoff.