News & Notes Volume III, No. 40 March 27, 2018 [NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!] 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). A Blair banknote at auction (Pilot Tribune & Enterprise). About the Banknote Industry Better banknote numbering (American Printer). Executive leaves De La Rue in the wake of profit warning (The Telegraph). De La Rue lost passport contract (This is Money). "Humiliation"? (Express). Upcoming Industry Conferences Security Printers 2018, Dublin, Ireland, March 21-23 2018 (Security Printers) High Security Printing Conference Latin America, June 11-13, Dominican Republic (Reconnaissance). Banknote 2018, May 21-24, 2018, Dallas, Texas (The Banknote Conference). African Currency Forum, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, September 2-5, 2018 (African Currency Forum). The Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Expo, Las Vegas NV, November 6-8, 2018 (News Anyway). From the Annals of Crime Thoughts on counterfeiting (Collectors Universe, discussion thread). Memories of a 19th century Swiss counterfeiter (The Local). He seems to have counterfeited anti-counterfeiting technologies (LA Times). Websites to Like (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