News & Notes Volume III, No. 52 June 19, 2018 [NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!] Currency Coming and Going Stack's Bowers offers rare Commercial Bank of Canada note (Coinweek). Stack's Bowers to auction Robert J. Bauman collection of Argentinian notes (Coinweek). Banknote difficulties across the U.K. (Slugger O'Toole). How people count money in different countries, video (Conde Nast Traveler, via Boing Boing). Very watchable. Why cash hangs on (PYMNTS). The wrong letter on this $20 note (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News). An Iranian banknote in a South African ATM? (Citizen). Tatarstan chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News). SARB's official announcement concerning the Mandela commemorative banknote series (SARB). South Africa's new Mandela banknotes (Cape Business News). Don Kelly's Obsolete Paper Money (Coin World). A followup on stumptail currency (E-Sylum). The Caldwell collection of Australian notes (E-Sylum). An honest taxi driver in Bangkok (The Nation). Banknotes on offer at the ChengXuan Auctions, Beijing (BLOUINARTINFO). A banknote trick that went badly wrong (Metro). Here's a video of how the trick is supposed to work (Youtube). Tokyo's Banknote and Postage Stamp Museum (Asahi Shimbun). The history of Brunei's $10,000 note (GoldSeek). In Singapore, it's only a customary tender (GoldSeek) About the Banknote Industry De La Rue at the 2018 Banknote Conference (De La Rue). De La Rue presentation on future changes in banknotes (De La Rue). Hong Kong authorities to accommodate movie makers over prop money (Hong Kong Free Press). Komori wins award for its currency printing press (Ink World). Upcoming Industry Conferences Security Document World conference, London, UK, June 25-27, 2018 (SDW 2018). 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 Profile of James Martin, art forgery detective (The Guardian). Hugely interesting on the general problem of counterfeiting and art. And a class for detecting product counterfeiting in China (Sixth Tone). The real purpose of fake money (Gephardt Daily). Money smuggling to the Houthi militia (Arab News). An Iowan vs. a North Korean terrorist (Des Moines Register). The surge in Indonesia's counterfeits timed for Eid (The Diplomat). Numismatic Crime Information Center (NCIS) to offer class in crime investigation at the ANA's World's Fair of Money (Coinweek). Counterfeiting assignats (E-Sylum). And an earlier, related book review notice (E-Sylum). Websites to Like (in no particular order) Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads) Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library) Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum) 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 (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics) Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art). Pakistani Currency