News & Notes Volume II, No. 36

• Candidates for Banknote of the Year (Steven Bron).
• Uzbeki 10,000- som note (Steven Bron). And here (Banknote News).
• Jerry Lebo has passed away (Numismatic News).
• Britain's 50-Pound note is here to stay (Bloomberg).
• Seychelles retiring old 100 and 500 rupee notes (Seychelles News Agency, in French).
• Papua New Guinea resizes its banknotes (Secura Monde).
• Early paper money of the Confederacy, video (COINWeek).
• Various notes on Boggs, one-cent checks, and the travails of third-party grading (E-Sylum). And continued here (E-Sylum).
• The female bus currency counters of Kunming (China.org).
• Aussie vegans to their British counterparts: lighten up (ABC).
• Helping the visually-impaired with U.S. currency (Coin World).
• Money and art history (The New York Times). Interview with Mark Tomasko regarding his exhibition, "Images of Value", at the Grolier Club in NYC. See also here for press release and commentary (E-Sylum).
• Update on "noodle money" (E-Sylum).
• Professor Hellman's test notes (E-sylum).
• New Zim bond notes are a hit on eBay (Eyewitness News).
• Chinese man delivers a bouquet of banknotes on Valentines Day (Metro).
• Upcoming Orlando show (COINWeek).
• Now Russia is considering a crackdown on cash (The CoinTelegraph).
• In Switzerland, paper money remains in demand (Luzerner Zeitung, in German).
• How the American colonists managed their need for cash (Time).
• Mexico's 100-Peso commemorative note (Banknote News).
• Swiss: We like our cash, thank you very much (First Post).
• Banknote Book's Montenegro chapter is now available (Banknote News).

• American counterfeiting of North Vietnamese currency during the Vietnam War  (The Buffalo News). Profile of Charles J. Zoerb:

"The fake currency, he said, was the more devious of what rolled off the presses.'It was scattered from airplanes flying above North Vietnam. When infiltrators headed to South Vietnam with that money, they could be identified because the cash had special markings and serial numbers'...Those caught carrying the fake bills would be arrested and interrogated."

• Theft of Saudi 500 Riyal notes in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Eh? (650 CKOM) "They're asking the public to be on the lookout for someone trying to exchange the money for Canadian dollars." And here (CBC).
• Indian ATM dispenses toy money (The Times). Somehow, this is a metaphor in search of a meaning.  Here is the perpetrator (News x). 
• It's election season in India, and cash seizures are on the rise. Also liquor (Live Mint). Democracy on the march.
• "Banknotes are like sex" (Forbes).