News & Notes Volume II, No. 6

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 08/02/2016 - 14:22

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

Is paper money a fraud? (Slate)
Miley Cyrus has walls of money in her Malibu home (The Real Deal).
The BEP's billion dollar exhibit (Coin World).
An Obama dollar? (fastcodesign).
Fifty years of "In God We Trust" (The Apopka Voice).
Video about the 5 Euro note (YouTube).
A breadbox out of dollars (Etsy).
Mahatma Gandhi isn't going anywhere soon (India.com).
What the Torah says about Bitcoin (Crypto Coins News). Would Scotland adopt a cryptocurrency? (Calvin Ayre).
Meet Hakkim Maliyekkal (Mathrubhumi).
Japanese airport currency machine converts travelers' coins into e-cash (Japan Times). How useful.
What's currently passing for currency in Zimbabwe (All Africa).
The pleasures of archival work (Coin Update).
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz on the divisiveness of the Euro (New York Times).
BOOK: Counterfeiting and Technology (Whitman, via E-Sylum).
Liberia's bigger denomination banknotes (New Dawn Liberia). And here (Daily Observer).
Barsik the Cat is in the running to appear on Russia's currency (Metro).
Spink's auction will include Vietnamese banknotes (COINWeek).
One NYC restaurant is no longer accepting cash (New York Times).
Repurposing dollar bills with pop culture icons (Hello giggles).
Sir Winston Churchill, white supremacist (telesur).

Giesecke and Devrient's "micro mirror technology" (Coin World).
Favorable report on De La Rue (Digital Look).
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).

Counterfeiting in Portugal (Portugal News Online). And Malta (Gozo). And Czechoslovakia (Radio Praha).
After robbing the bank, she threw the cash in the air (Providence Journal).
Mugged in Rio? Keep a banknote handy (The Financial Express).
A counterfeiting kingpin is extradited to the U.S. (Courthouse News, via E-Sylum).
This wouldn't even fool a Walmart cashier (Winston-Salem Journal, 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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