News & Notes Volume II, No. 20

• Modi announces demonetization of Rs500 and Rs1000 notes, creating panic runs on ATMs (India Live Today). Indian expats caught in a bind (Times of Oman). Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes represented 86% of the currency in circulation, by value (Business Standard). And see more below.
• The new £5 note succumbs to a simple pencil eraser (Chronicle Live). And here (Daily Record)
• Zimbabwe's becoming a cashless society because it has to (New York Times). Bond notes: legal, but unnecessary (Zimbabwe Daily).
• The death of the Bolivar (Washington Post).
• Rare U.S. currency in a Dutch movie (Numismatic News).
• Trump pays cash to child on election day (The Independent).
• How the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced banknotes in 1920 (Youtube video, National Archives via IBNS Forum).
• "Hidden secrets" of the Scottish fiver (STV News).
• Seychelles new banknotes due in December (Seychelles News Agency).
• New Macedonian banknotes also due in December (MINA).
• The deadline for exchanging old Pakistani banknotes is November 30 (Daily Pakistan). Higher denomination notes are due out in early 2017 (Business Recorder).
• A "Satanic connection"? (Daily Mail).
• A parody note from the Panic of 1837 (Atlas Obscura).
• The perils of "marijuana money" (The Cointelegraph).
• Waterman L. Ormsby, trickster? (E-Sylum).
• Melissa Brown's currency (Two Coast of Paint).
• Magic mushrooms on Kiwi currency (Stuff).
• A grant to help the blind recognize currency denominations (Fox).
• His private currency, "Boletos", was backed by silver bars (Tucson.com).
• The Japanese preference for cash (Bloomberg).
• History of Chinese banking, part one of five episodes (Youtube video, via IBNS Forum).

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• New Zim bond notes said to be counterfeited even before the real ones enter circulation (!) "How do you make a counterfeit bank note of a note that many Zimbabweans consider counterfeit already?" (Zimbabwe Star).
• To fight corruption and counterfeiting, India abolishes big notes (Reuters). And here (CNBC). This last happened in 1978 (The Indian Express).