• EXHIBITION: Confederate Currency: The Color of Money (National Underground Railroad Freedom Center).
• Inscribed banknotes of the non-short snorter type (Numismatic News).
• Italy refuses to convert $1.8m worth of lira found in safe deposit into euros (International Adviser).
• Who Geordies want to see on their banknotes (Chronicle Live).
• The seven natural wonders on Seychelles' 500 rupee note (Seychelles News Agency).
• The mosque on Iran's 200 rial note (Mehr News Agency).
• Background on India's sudden currency shortage (Bloomberg).
• Designs released for Cumbria's Lake District Pound (Cumbria Crack). They will enter circulation May 1 (Times & Star).
• Cash put out for recycling? (New Zealand Herald).
• Harriet Tubman on hold (Daily Beast). And here (Numismatic News).
• Iran seizes large amounts of "contraband" currency (Radio Farda).
• Parents take their dead son's body to the bank to make a withdrawal, and to make a point (Khaleej Times).
• Measuring a Huntsman spider with a $5 note (Daily Mail). Ew.
• Stane Straus video on polymer banknotes (Youtube, via E-Sylum).
• Five valuable banknotes, by purchasing power (Business Tech).
• Call for speakers at the ANA Philadelphia World's Fair of Money (Coinweek).
• The last survivor of Operation Bernhard passes away (E-Sylum).
• A Canadian "devil's face" banknote? (E-Sylum).
• Another explanation of Switzerland's "Sovereign Money" initiative (Expatica).
• CHAPTER: The Philippines chapter of the Banknote Book is available (Banknote News).
• Higgins Museum seminar set for July 26 and will feature national banknote topics (Coin World).
•  Karl Marx's hometown honors him with a zero-euro banknote (Quartz). And here (Lonely Planet).

                                             Workers of the World, LOL (Lonely Planet)

              From the Annals of Crime

• Counterfeits in Curacao (Curacao Chronicle).
• Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the currency smuggling business? (Asharq Al-Awsat).
• Reserve Bank of Malawi keeps an eye on counterfeiting (Nyasa Times).
• The BSP's new coin security features (Philippines Information Agency).
• Profile of Robert Villaneuva, counterfeit fighter and "dark web sleuth" (FIU Magazine)
• More on the significant Australian counterfeit case (Pro Print). "The counterfeiter was only caught because a salesman was cleaning out one of the traded in machines a clear plastic sheet with an image of an Australian banknote fell out."
• Counterfeit detection with kitchen blender (9News, video, via E-Sylum). Alas, you need to destroy the bill in order to test if it is genuine.
• Indian fake money on the increase (Financial Express).
• ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).