News & Notes Volume III, No. 10

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

A Roosevelt signature on a short snorter (Numismatic News).
On this day in 1786, currency shenanigans contributed to Shays' Rebellion (Politico).
New and improved Hungarian 1000-forint note (Banknote News).
Maldives new 5-rufiyaa note (Banknote News).
"Wampum and Dried Codfish" (Portage Daily Graphic).
Sao Tome and Principe lops three zeros off the Dobra (Voz de America, in Portuguese). Here are the new notes (COINWeek).
South Korea to commemorate the 2018 Winter Olympics with a 2000-Won note (Chosun).
A very generous Thai ATM (Bangkok Post).
Poland's new commemorative 20-zloty note (Banknote News). And here (Coin World).
EU: There will be no parallel Italian currency (Reuters).
Bank of China Hong Kong's centennial banknote (ejinsight). Hong Kong's commemorative "obsession"?
India debuts its new Rs 200 note (Times of India).
How money is made (Youtube, video). Making the new 20-Euro note.
The prospects for fractionals (Numismaster).
No plans for a new Indian Rs 1000 note (The Indian Express). Or perhaps there are? (Press KS).
New edition of Bressett's Guide Book of United States Currency (COINWeek).
Where's George? meet Where's Willy? (E-Sylum).
A brokered sale of Zanzibar banknotes (COINWeek).
Cowrie shell images on Singaporean banknotes (Mothership, via E-Sylum).
This World War II vet wiped his bum with Adolph Hitler (St. Augustine Record).
Abbie Hoffman's guerrilla theater after fifty years (Smithsonian).

De La Rue prints Sao Tome and Principe's new currency series (De La Rue).
The Asia Cash Cycle Seminar, September 11-14, 2017, Bangkok (ICCOS Asia).
The Holography Conference, November 16-17, Barcelona (Reconnaissance).
High Security Printing Conference Asia, December 4-6, 2017, Melbourne (Reconnaissance).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Fighting counterfeiting nature's way (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Egyptian authorities intercept 'antiquities' leaving the country (Egypt Independent).
Art imitates life (Cinema Blend, via E-Sylum).

(in no particular order)

Newman Numismatic Portal
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
The American Revenue Association (Hobby website).
The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website).
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 Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA)
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).
Mujand (fantasy banknote maker).
Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread.
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).
Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration.
PYMNTS.com (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).
De La Rue (Company website).
Secura Monde International (Company website). Good banknote news feed.
Giesecke & Devrient (Company website).
Patronus Systems (Company 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)
French Banknotes of War (Collector's website). Abundant material in English and French.
AFEP Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie
Monnaies Locales Complementaires
Guild of Independent Currencies (promotes local currencies in the U.K.)
Our Money (Eurozone currency).
The Ephemera Society of America
Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art).
Pakistani Currency

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