News & Notes Volume IV, No. 3 July 10, 2018 [NB: Links from previous issues may go stale, and rather quickly at that. Sorry!] Currency Coming and Going Nevada's paper money (Coinweek). Delays to Venezuela's bolivares soberanos (Coin World). Heritage HK auction included rare Chinese currency (Coinweek). A $40 commemorative for 40 years of Solomon Islands' independence (ABC). And here (Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation). And here (Central Bank of Solomon Islands). Azerbaijan's 200 manat note (Coin World). New Mandela banknotes on the way (The Citizen). Those durable New Zealand banknotes (Newsroom.pro). The UAE's history through its coins and currency (Gulf News). New currency for the Thai king's birthday (Bangkok Post). And here (The Phuket News). Houthi rebels push back against Yemeni government banknotes (Asharq Al-Awsat). The Tunisia chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News). Hungary's redesigned 500 forint note (Steven Bron). And here (Secura Monde). And here (Budapest Business Journal). Nelson Mandela soon coming to South Africa's money (The Citizen) About the Banknote Industry LED lighting and banknote forgery detection (Vision Systems Design). Upcoming Industry Conferences African Currency Forum, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, September 2-5, 2018 (African Currency Forum). World Banknote Summit, Frankfurt, Germany, September 24-26, 2018 (World Banknote Summit). High Security Printing-Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 3-5, 2018 (Reconnaissance) The Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Expo, Las Vegas NV, November 6-8, 2018 (News Anyway). The Future of Cash 2019, Athens, Greece, February 20-21, 2019 (Future of Cash). From the Annals of Crime Central Bank of Barbados warns about fake notes (Barbados Today). She lost HK$ 10 million in a "black money" scam (South China Morning Post). SYMPOSIUM: Law & Order in the National Archives, September 15, 2018 (National Archives). 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
