News & Notes, Volume II No. 7

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 18:36

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

U.S. airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran (CNN). I wonder how big an airplane you need for that. Is there a "pallets of cash" video? (Youtube).
Bank of America charges $20,000 to ship $100 million (PYMNTS.com)
Lee Yat-Ngok and the Local Printing Press Co. (Industrial History of Hong Kong).
Malaysian bank notes with a new signature (Daily Express). And here (The Star).
Was the new Liberian currency unauthorized? (All Africa). And here (New Dawn).
Bank of Tanzania defends its bank notes (All Africa).
The zero-Euro bank note (E-Sylum).
When cash is not always king (UPI).
Commemorative 500-Baht notes available, featuring the queen (Pattaya Mail).
Women on paper money (COINWeek).
Canadians are again cutting their currency in half, eh, (fastcodesign).
Meet your new 5-Pound note (Bank of England, video). The old ones will cease being legal tender in May 2017 (Telegraph).
New Zealand's oldest bank note is up for sale (New Zealand Herald).
Novelty bank note napkins (Gumtree).
The Bank of Canada museum (Bank of Canada)
Bank Negara Malaysia museum and art gallery (Bank Negara).
Steemdollars (Steemit).
The Art of Money (Pinterest). Sign in for best views.
Currency-themed socks (Etsy).
BOOK: The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth Rogoff (Princeton University Press). And a Kirkus review (Kirkus
Zimbabweans protest pending issue of bond notes (Coastweek).

A new bank note paper manufacturing plant in India (Times of India).
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).

BOOK REVIEW: Counterfeiting and Technology (Coin World)
The Peru connection (CCTV).
A lesson in printing fake money (NBC News, video).
Anti-counterfeiting connections (Bank of Canada).
Mapping counterfeit networks in India (Emerald Insight, gated article).
Money laundering in Nigeria (Seahi Publications, pdf article available).
Something's wrong on the Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight County Press).

(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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