News & Notes Volume III, No. 46                         May 8, 2018

• Colonial currency at auction by Pook & Pook (Antique Trader).
• Germany's hyperinflationary currency (Coin Update).
• The James Bevill collection in the Sedwick Treasure Auction (Coinweek).
• An education into Educational notes (Coinweek).
• NLG award categories for 2018 (Coinweek).
• Macedonia's new notes (Coin World).
• Barcelona's new local currency, the Recurso Economico Ciudadano (REC) (PresssTV). But will it take a physical form?
• India's bankers want more Rs 100 notes (India Times).
• Another account of the Venezuelan handbag business (Time).
• Masssilon's stock market museum (Indeonline ). Here is the website of the R.G. Klein Stock Market Museum &Library, in Massilon, Ohio.
• The new abbreviation for Venezuela's Bolivares Soberanos will be Bs.S., and not the more intuitive B.S. (MRI Bankers' Guide). 
• Mauritania's new 1,000 ouguiya note (Banknote News).
• Swaziland's new 100 and 200 emalangeni notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Russian 100 ruble commemorative note celebrating the 2018 FIFA games to be issued (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Guinea-Conakry plans new banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Now Slovakia will issue a zero-euro commemorative banknote (Infoglitz).
• Another announcement about the Higgins banknote seminar, July 26 (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• The argument for a Scottish currency (The National).

          

                     Scottish sovereignty, Scottish currency (The National)

About the Banknote Industry​ Central Bank of Nigeria's clean banknote policy (New Telegraph). De La Rue as a takeover target (Investment Trust Insider).            Upcoming Industry Conferences 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

• Cash in the wind on an Indianapolis highway (Banner Graphic).
• (Another) Hong Kong cabbie, this time busted for keeping one large cash tip (Hong Kong Free Press).
• In addition to criminal prosecutions, the Bank of Israel files civil lawsuits against counterfeiters (World Israel News).
• In Sofia, beware of foreigners bearing euros (Sofia News Agency).
• Printing her counterfeit bills on bleached notes, she suggested to shopkeepers that they use their detection pens (AZ Central).
• ANA SUMMER SEMINAR: REGISTER HERE for Detecting Counterfeit World Paper Money, June 17-20 (American Numismatic Association).

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