News & Notes Volume III, No. 9

Submitted by Loren Gatch New... on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 10:36

[NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!]

A survey of Netherlands Antilles banknotes (Coin Update).
Nepal's new 5-Rupee note (Banknote News).
Going cashless in China (Straits Times).
Indian films on currency (The Hindu).
Elbridge Spaulding, the Buffalonian "Father of the Greenback" (WGRZ, video and text). This segment actually appeared on the local television news in western New York state.
Seventeen important U.S. paper money books (PMG, via E-Sylum)
A parallel Italian currency? Reuters).
On why you should collect passports (Our Passports).
A Romanian solar eclipse note (E-Sylum).
Saudi Arabia prevents Yemen from flying in its own banknotes (Al Jazeera).
India's new Rs 50 note (Hindustan TImes). And here (Banknote News).
American colonial fiscal paper (E-Sylum).
Another reason why Uzbekistan needs a higher-denomination note (Eurasianet): "In April 2016, a gang in the Khorezm region, around 1,000 kilometers west of Tashkent, hit a bank and got away with 45 sack-loads of cash worth a total of 16 million sum. Two minibuses were needed to cart away the booty. It was still a miserable haul — around $2,500 at the black market rate."
The comedian and activist Dick Gregory has passed away at 84. Here is a video about how he once issued his own currency (Youtube). Here is an article (pdf) from 2015 in Paper Money about the episode.
The Panic of 1837, from a Catholic point of view (Echoes).
A rare continental note (Coin World).
She bought a car in China with 1-Yuan notes (NDTV).

Profile of De La Rue's Sutherland (Evening Standard).
The Asia Cash Cycle Seminar, September 11-14, 2017, Bangkok (ICCOS Asia).
The Holography Conference, November 16-17, Barcelona (Reconnaissance).
High Security Printing Conference Asia, December 4-6, 2017, Melbourne (Reconnaissance).
The Future of Cash conference, Vienna, Austria, October 4-5, 2017 (Reconnaissance).

Short profile of the Secret Service (Canton Citizen).
Counterfeit money was scattered along the road (Bladen Journal).

(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

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