Currency Coming and Going​

• National bank notes from Belmont, Ohio and Marlinton, West Virginia (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• A new Friedberg number, and the mess it causes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Lotteries in early Vermont (vtdigger).
• George Selgin on Scottish banking during the Restriction years (Cato Institute). Part I.
• Rethinking Currency (Bloomberg Businessweek). "Your precocious 2-year-old could shred your cash. Or you could be James Howells, the Welsh IT worker who accidentally discarded the hard drive that had his Bitcoin passwords on it. Those lost passwords were worth more than $100 million at one point, but the city council won’t let him dig for the drive in the local landfill."
• Virtual currency and the apocalypse (Asia Times).
• All hail The Benjamin (Coin World).
• Bristol bar stops accepting cash (Bristol Live).
• A note-worthy ship on a $4 bill (Collingwood Today).
• Money matters at the Bank Negara Museum & Art Gallery (New Straits Times, via E-Sylum).
• Hidden messages on Hay Internment Camp notes (Sterling & Currency, via E-Sylum).
• Hidden secrets on the $1 bill (MSN, via E-Sylum).
• Stories of Money, ten years after the onset of the financial crisis (WNYC podcasts, via E-Sylum).
• Why Britain holds onto its  £50 note (Australian Financial Review) "...when it comes to preserving the status quo of its fiat currency, it seems that the British government is in for a penny, in for a pound."
• Selected notes from the upcoming Mavin International auction (PMG).
• The history of Austria, as reflected in its paper money (Coinsweekly).
• In Zimbabwe, no cash, no bread, no KFC (BBC). "You can rig an election, but you can't rig an economy."
• Liberia's missing money remains a mystery so long as the central bank won't open its vault (Front Page Africa).
• A local currency for Kingston (Kingstonpound).
• Local currencies program at the Schumacher Center (Schumacher Center). Includes archives of past local currency experiments.
• A collection of Gandhi-themed currency will go on display in Dubai (Gulf News).
• India may launch its own cryptocurrency (Quartz).
• The travails of currency trading on the Ugandan-Sudanese border (PML Daily).
• Heritage to auction more selections from the Eric P. Newman collection (Coinweek).
• More on the shredding toddler (Coin World).
• Money to pee on (Hip Hop DX).
• A Moroccan rapper and his money (albawaba, short Youtube video).
• Bosnia and Herzogovina's convertible marks (Mintage World).
• Germany's currency in the aftermath of World War II (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Currency of the Italian Social Republic 1943-1945 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The emergency currency of Zagreb, 1942 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The Banque de France to restructure its note-handling operations (Numismag, in French).

                 A 20-franc note from 1976 that never entered circulation (Numismag).

                    New Banknote Issues

• More announcements concerning Papua New Guinea's commemorative note (Steven Bron).
• The new euro notes due in 2019 (Coin World).
• Ulster Bank's new  £10 note celebrates John Clarke, "the Harry Ferguson of potatoes" (AgriLand).
• Bolivia's new 50 bolivianos note to appear October 15 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Moldova's design competition for its new family of polymer currency (Steven Bron).
• More information about Iraq's new 1,000 dinar note (Ekurd Daily). And here (Coin Update News).
• The Bahama's envisions 1/2 and 3 dollar notes for 2019 (Steven Bron). And a short video clip introducing Bahama's 20 dollar note (Youtube, via Steven Bron).
• Bank of England plans new polymer £50 (Bank of England). And here (Gov.UK).
• Who might appear on a new polymer £50 (BBC). Boaty McBoatface?
• Sudan gears up to produce 100 and 500 pound denominations (Steven Bron).
• Australia's new $50 is friendly to the blind (C&I). And here (Disability Support Guide).
• Uruguay's 20 and 50 peso notes will soon appear in polymer (Steven Bron).