News & Notes Volume II, No. 3

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 09:54

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

A defense of community currencies (Burning Man).
Among other things in Abu Dhabi, the illusionist Jamie Raven made a banknote appear in a lemon (The National). Here's Raven in an earlier YouTube video from "Britain's Got Talent." The lemon trick starts at 2:30. (Youtube). Worth watching!
"Turning Money into Art" (Royal Gazette).
Watermarks aging badly (Coin World).
On European identity, or the lack thereof (Washington Post). This includes evidence from Euro currency notes.
The Charminar on paper money (COINWeek).
An upcoming Stack's Bowers auction, featuring MPCs (Coin Update).
Two more trompe l'oeil banknote paintings (E-Sylum).
Chester Krause, cont. (E-Sylum).
The New York Gold Room (E-Sylum).
Gun rights overstamps on currency (E-Sylum).
Interesting facts about the Rupee (MSN).
Women on U.S. currency (Bust).
The history of Bulgaria's money (Bank for International Settlements).
Zimbabwean banks tighten cash withdrawal limits (All Africa).
The procedure for redesigning America's paper money (Lexology).
The boat on Canada's currency (Standard-Freeholder, via E-Sylum).
Egypt's first paper note was issued in 1899 (Daily News Egypt).
The currencies of countries-to-be and that never were (COINWeek).
The Central Bank of Egypt says its printing presses are under control (Daily News Egypt).
Mark Wagner's currency collages (CNN).
A single currency for West Africa? (Coastweek).
Notes with Katherine Ortega's signature (Coin World).
Protester throws paper money at a Senate committee voting on a GMO bill (Food Safety News).
Rosie Rios resigns as U.S. Treasurer (Coin World).
Higgins Museum banknote seminar on July 28, 2016 (Coin World).
BOOK: Philippine Emergency Notes (E-Sylum).

Calling out bogus banknotes (Yanko Design).
MIT's nanocrystals (Fastcodesign).
Polymer opals might one day protect banknotes (Laboratory News).
11th Security Document Summit, Beijing (Security Document World).
4th International Banknote Designers Conference, September 12-15, 2016, Paris (International Banknote Designers Association).
The Currency Conference, May 14-17, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Currency Conference).

Those Chinese tourists in Vietnam acting badly, cont. (Thanhnien News).
Singapore's bank 'note' robber (Deccan Chronicle). But what did he write on the note?
Flush with cash, marijuana shops are a favorite of thieves (Immortal News).
Some background to North Korea's latest counterfeiting surge (The diplomat).
A counterfeiter in colonial North Carolina (Sun Journal).
Canada's polymer notes vex crooks (iTestCash).
Counterfeits in Calgary (Calgary Sun).
Alibaba's offers of fake money (Alibaba). Not subtle.

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
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).
Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics).
Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history)
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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