News & Notes Volume II, No. 4

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 09:16

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

The chopped-up money in Darmstadt remains a mystery (Deutsche Welle).
Showcasing the new five-Pound note (The Guide).
Cash becomes this Brooklyn artist's canvas (PIX 11).
The Denver Fed's Money Museum (Coin World).
Malaysians protest politician by tossing Hell Money (Malay Mail)
More on the upcoming auction of MPCs (Coin World).
Back in the days of big notes (Coin World).
Benny's random acts of kindness (Washington Post, via E-Sylum).
How to lose your appetite for Ethiopian food (Springer Link).
A sheikh inveighs against paper money (Youtube video, 4:42). Sounds reasonable to me.
A separate currency for Scotland? (i News). Thanks, Brexit.
Opposition to Nellie McClung on Canadian currency (Bayshore Broadcasting). Like many public figures during the Progressive Era, she supported eugenics policies.
This Italian town supports migrants with scrip, to keep business local (BBC)
Paying by cash, lessons from behavioral economics (New York Times).
Pakistan phases out "old design" banknotes (The Nation).
Burmese money changers only want crisp U.S. currency (The Irrawaddy).
Stamping out "In God We Trust" (The Original Motto Project).
Short history of the 100 Trillion dollar note (Great American Coin Co.).
Colonial monetary policy at the point of a gun (New England Historical Society).
Germans are still hoarding billions of Deutschmarks (The Local).
German police: The new 50 Euro note is 'forgeable' (The Local).
Job opening for a casino cashier (Catererglobal.com)
History of the Indian Rupee (The Better India).
CUSTOMER REVIEW: Full Cotton Paper Money Bathtowel (Light in the Box).
WEBSITE: The San Diego Paper Money Club
BOOK: Counterfeiting and Technology (Coin Update)
BOOK CHAPTER: The Detection of Cocaine on Paper Currency (Forensic Science, via Google Books).
ARTICLE: Colonial American money and the quantity theory (NBER).

A new technique for lifting fingerprints from polymer notes (Engineering and Technology Magazine).
A patent for reversing banknote limpness (Free Patents Online). If the effects last more than four hours, well then just spend the thing.
Innovia restructures (in Cumbria).
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).

Large counterfeiting bust in Spain (Murcia Today).
For these Oklahoma forensics students, training includes washing currency for its cocaine residues (News OK).
She hid $1.2 million in fake notes in spindles of yarn (Mass Live).
D.B. Cooper's case is closed (CNN, via E-Sylum)

(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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