News & Notes Volume III, No. 40

                        March 27, 2018

             Currency Coming and Going

• A rare note from the Blair National Bank (Pilot Tribune & Enterprise).
• Tips on cleaning cash (New York Times).
• Advertising deposit guaranties on state bank checks (SPMC).
• China to retire the 4th edition renminbi (ECNS).
• Winning banknote designs in Taiwan (Taipei Times). Chiang-Kai shek to stay on banknotes for the time being (Taiwan News). And Taiwan's faith in cash (technode).
• In what ways elephants might be beggars (Jakarta Post).
• A look back at the most recent ANA National Money Show (Coinweek).
• Women on banknotes and gender equality (livemint).
• Venezuela to take three zeros off its banknotes (Business Insider). "This action will help defend the national currency from the financial attack perpetrated by imperialist sectors..." Ordinary Venezuelans aren't buying it (Street Insider). And here (Steven Bron). Venezuela's currency mess (Axios).
• Lebanon's 100,000 livres note will have improved security thread (Steven Bron). And here (L'Orient le Jour, in French).
• From Howard Daniel, a good place to keep your dong (E-Sylum).
• How PMG grades banknotes (video, Youtube).
• New Bolivian banknotes on the way (la Razon, in Spanish).
• A 70 taka commemorative banknote from Bangladesh (MRI Bankers Guide).
•  A rare Straits Settlements note at auction (Numismatic News).
• The "Tiger of Malaysia" (Numismatic News).
• A Rs 10,000 banknote? Not by us (Pakistan Observer).
• A single currency for west Africa? (Coin World).
• Bhutan baby notes on sale (Channel Newsasia).
• Marx on money? (Snopes).
• Old Norwegian banknotes to expire this May (News in English.no).
• Carlson Chambliss' note collection at auction (Numismatic News).
• A rare interest-bearing note from the Joel R. Anderson auction (Coinweek). And some early auction results (Coinweek).
• The lacquer artist who painted Vietnam's 100 dong note (Vietnamnet).
• A look at Japanese banknotes (Nippon).