News & Notes Volume III, No. 2

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Tue, 07/04/2017 - 13:57

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

Bashar Assad puts himself on a banknote (Bloomberg). After 17 years, what does Assad mean by doing this? (Vox).
"Bioinspired Banknotes" (ET Heritage).
Cow artist's Scottish banknote turned down, has a cow (The Scotsman).
U.S. Government-sponsored money laundering, ca. 1910 (Coinsweekly).
Swedish banknotes expired July 1 (The Local)
Canada's Loonie replaced banknotes thirty years ago (Radio Canada International).
Stupid banknote trick, with video (Daily Mirror).
India to begin printing Rs 200 notes (Economic Times). New Indian banknotes on the way (Financial Express).
Valuable Turkish banknotes (Daily Sabah).
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Billion-Dollar Display (Coin World).
BOOK REVIEW: One Nation Under Gold (Washington Post).
India won't lose paper money anytime soon (Bloomberg Businessweek).
Background to the SPMC's 2017 breakfast venue (Numismatic News). And an awards roundup (Numismatic News). Wyoming notes shine at auction (Numismatic News).
The Luxembourg chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
After 50 years of the ATM, cash is still alive (BBC).
Cash vs. FinTech (IT Business Net).
Military Payment Certificates (COINWeek).
An emergency stash of $2 bills (E-Sylum).
A visit to the Cleveland Fed's Money Museum (E-Sylum).

Giesecke & Devrient's Louisenthal unit wins Best Specimen Banknote award (Giesecke & Devrient).
The Watermark Conference, July 4-6, 2017, Ykaterinburg, Russia (Watermark Conference).
Security Document World Conference, London June 26-28, 2017 (Security Document World).
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).

Norway's new banknotes have already been counterfeited (The Local).

(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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