Currency Coming and Going​

• A rare national bank note from Cherryvale, Kansas at auction (Numismatic News).
• A pricey 5,000 franc note from Vichy Malagasy (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Results from Heritage's Long Beach sale featured notes from Canada and Australia (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• A discovery of Mississippi-related currency in an old safe at the state university library (Mississippi State University).
• The history to be learned from banknotes (The Guardian).
• Germany's "ghost money" (Deutsche Welle).
• Replacing damaged currency in Korea (The Korean Bizwire).
• Japan's modernizers, as they appear on its banknotes (CGTN).
• Kazakhstan demonetizes banknotes issued between 1998 and 2003 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The glory of the whio, on New Zealand's banknotes (Stuff).
• Indigo airline's allergy to the Indian rupee (Mumbai Mirror).
• Part of this football coach's abuse involved stuffing banknotes into his victim's mouth (BBC).
• Currency traders in Zimbabwe deemed a "security threat" (IOL).
• Twenty-seven countries where the U.S. dollar circulates as currency (Newsweek).
• The changing U.S. dollar (Business Insider).
• How U.S. currency has changed  in our lifetime (Coinweek).
• The Abkhazia chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• To commemorate the centenary of the Armistice, the Club Numismatique d’Argenteuil is hosting an exhibition of French coins and currency in the commune of Chahaignes, Nov. 10-25, 2018 (Numismag, in French).
• A look at the CFA Franc's currency union (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Once languishing in a cellar, a big donation of German Notgeld goes to the HVB Stiftung (Geldscheine-online, in German). And: a review of German Notgeld issues across two World Wars (Geldscheine-online, in German).

                         Commemorating the centenary of the Armistice (Numismag).

                    New Banknote Issues

• The boy who changed Australia's currency (The New Daily). This Swinburne researcher contributed to the indigenous iconography on the new $50 (Swinburne University of Technology).
• Royal Bank of Scotland introduces new polymer banknote honoring Kate Cranston (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Glasgow Live).
• New guilder notes from St. Maarten and Curacao (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Moldova to introduce polymer banknotes (Banknote News).
• Papua New Guinea's new K100 note (The National).
• Abkhazia's first banknote (Coin World).
• Norway's new 50 and 500 kroner notes (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Steven Bron).
• Press release announcing Bolivia's new 50 boliviano note (Banco Central de Bolivia, in Spanish)..And a picture here (Banknote News).
• More chatter about who might appear on the new £50 note. The Bank of England has a "Banknote Character Advisory Committee (BoE). A Muslim heroine? (The National). Margaret Thatcher? (The Independent). Stephen Lawrence? (Huffpost). David Attenborough? (The Money Pages). And further, "9 deserving contenders" (JOE). A summary of the conversation from the New York TImes (NYT). Why new banknotes in the first place? (The Boar).