News & Notes Volume II, No. 23

• Ships on banknotes (COINWeek).
• INTERVIEW: Arthur L. Friedberg (Coin World, via E-Sylum).
• Cambodia's banknote swap (Phnom Penh Post).
• Poland to issue a commemorative banknote honoring Our Lady of Czestochowa (Steven Bron).
• Great Britain's new five pound polymer note contains animal fat (Quartz).  Bank of England: "there is a trace of tallow in the polymer pallets used in the base substrate of the polymer £5 notes." There is a protest petition (Change.org). "This is unacceptable to millions of vegans, vegetarians, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and others in the U.K."
• Nicaragua's 1000 Cordoba notes to honor the poet Ruben Dario (Steven Bron).
• Getting rid of the A$ 100 note? (Australian Financial Review).
• Production schedule for the new U.S. $10 note (Coin World).
• A useful timeline of India's banknote travails (FirstPost).
• How to dispose of 23 billion worthless banknotes? (Bloomberg). Maybe they could generate power (Hindustan Times). India's chaos (Reuters). "Day of Rage" (U.S. News & World Report).
• Nepal declares new Indian currency "illegal" (Times of India).
• How the poor can help the rich, in India (The Age, via E-Sylum). "In return for depositing the scrapped notes, domestic staff and others are being offered 10 to 25 per cent as commission."
• What should banknotes commemorate? A debate in Egypt (Madamasr).
• Bhutan's new commemorative banknote (Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan, pdf).
• Barbados' $50, 50th anniversary note (Central Bank of Barbados).
• The Bank of Canada's shortlist (Financial Post). Maybe no-one should be on the currency (Our London).
• Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe: Trust us (All Africa). And don't you dare try to deface them (All Africa). Bricks of bond notes (Tech Zim). "Embrace bond notes and coins." The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's press release (RBZ, pdf). Video here (Reuters).

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• "They make the finest counterfeit money in the world" (Washington Post).