News & Notes Volume II, No. 35

• Animal fat to stay in British banknotes, at least for now (VegNews). "Hindu fury?" (Express).
•  Australia's new $10 note (Sydney Morning Herald).
• A trip to Okoboji (Numismaster).
• "World's Most Beautiful Banknotes" (MSN).
• She donated her special fiver to charity (Independent).
• Mexico's 100-Peso commemorative banknote (Secura Monde).
• Rare Oil City banknote up for auction (COINWeek).
• UCONN's 100th win celebrated with a 100-dollar note (E-Sylum).
• Upcoming PCDA sale (E-Sylum).
• Anti-Jewish propaganda notes (Mullock's Auctions, via E-Sylum).
• PMG graders at work (COINWeek, video).
• Filthy lucre (Hindustan Times).
• Evolution of Indian currency denominations (Mostly Economics).
• Happy Birthday currency from the BEP (Numismatic News).
• Somalia to begin printing currency again (Footprint to Africa). The IMF will assist the country in doing this (Yes Africa). “About 98 percent of the currency circulating in the country is fake...The remaining 2 percent is currency printed during 1990-91, still circulating, but in very bad shape.”
• Motives for cash use in Zimbabwe (Bulawayo 24).
• Are Zim $10 and $20 bond notes on the way soon? (Radio VOP).
• An expensive "Jackass" note (Coin World). 

• "Booming" business in fake Naira (Politics Nigeria). Nigeria's central bank disputes the extent (Newsweek).
• Fake currency in the service of art (BBC).
• Canadian fraudsters (The South Bayview Bulldog).
• Some ephemera of counterfeiting (E-Sylum).
• Commentary on movie money (The Hans India)."The same problem has sprung up in Europe. The makers of the board game Monopoly print realistic-looking euro banknotes with the disclaimer word "Monopoly" added on both sides. But nobody reads banknotes there, either, which is how one enterprising thief last year purchased six million euros' worth of jewelry in London with Monopoly money."
• Paraguay seizes 25-30 tons of Venezuelan currency; the purpose of the cash hoard is unclear (Insight Crime). But there is this:

"With 100 bolivars worth a mere 3 US cents on the black market, the paper the money is printed on is of higher value to counterfeiters, who use it as raw material to print dollars. Given that a single US bill weighs approximately 1 gram, the potential value of the seized currency would be over $2 billion dollars, if all the bill were made into $100." See also here (Yahoo News).