Currency Coming and Going​

• A rare signature combination on a national bank note (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Auction houses as sources of online information about paper money (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Goldsmith receipts from 18th century England (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Spink China's strong auction showing (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• How a nature photographer's picture ended up on a Madagascar banknote (Conservation International).
• Stack's Bowers auction results from the January NYINC (Coinweek).
• The Portuguese India chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• Newman Grant Program is soliciting applications to fund numismatic research (Numismatic News).
• Venezuela allows creation of a parallel, private foreign exchange market (Voice of America).
• More Chinese banknote scenery: Potala Palace (CGTN).
• More on Hindi objections to Australian meaty banknotes (News 18). And here (India Today)." The Reserve Bank of Australia is running the risk of killing the 'cash cow', literally." And New Zealand has been targeted, too (Loop). And here (Stuff).
• Taiwan's banknote exchange service for the Lunar New Year (Taiwan Times).
• Church of England experiments with cashless collection plates (BBC).
• Liberians still want to know about those missing banknotes from last September (Africa Feeds).
• A look at the CFA Franc (New York Times). And here (BBC).
• Why the Nigerian government has let the N100 note go to pieces (Independent).
• What might happen when we replace currency with implants (Montreal Gazette). Speculative.
• Germany bids fond adieu to the 500 euro note (The Business Times).
• Nepal's conflicted relationship with the Indian Rupee and its high value notes (The Caravan). Good background on a strange issue.
• Scripophily? You can say that again (Fairfax County Times).
• Old paper money on Martha's Vineyard (MV Times).
• First American baseball team goes cashless at its stadium for 2019 (ESPN). Now, they just have to get people to attend the Rays' games.
• How Japan might give up cash (MIT Technology Review).
• Artist produces "blood money" versions of Australian currency to protest colonial exploitation (The Guardian).

           Blood Money Infinite Dollar Note (2018), by Ryan Presley (The Guardian).

                    New Banknote Issues

• The ECB issues a new zero euro souvenir note featuring Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (The Daily Sabah).
• Egypt denies that it will be issuing a new 500 pound banknote (Middle East Monitor). And here (Egypt Today).
• Rwanda plans new 500 and 1,000 franc notes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Saudis deny plans to issue SAR 1,000 banknote (Gulf Daily News).
• Marshall Islands to issue "blockchain banknote", the Sovereign (SOV) (Cision). And here (Verdict).
• Equipment breakdowns delay the issue of Uzbekistan's new 100,000 sum banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Algeria's new 500 and 1,000 dinar banknotes to be debuted next week (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• The Bahamas issues a new 1/2 dollar note (The Central Bank of Bahamas). And here (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron). The new notes use CRISP evolution technology (Secura Monde).
• Sudan to issue a new 200 pound note, "devoted to tourism" (MRI Bankers' Guide). Good luck with that.
• Hong Kong banks release their new HK$ 500 notes (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Banknote News).
• Zimbabwe might have a new currency in about a month (Mail and Telegraph). And here (All Africa).

             About the Banknote Industry

• Tangem, the Swiss company producing the Marshall Islands' "digital" banknotes (Cointelegraph).
• De La Rue named "currency services provider of the year" (Central Banking). And from the company website (De La Rue).
• How the Bank of Israel manages its banknote circulation (Central Banking).
• Giesecke + Devrient's new currency app (Giesecke + Devrient).
• Central Bank of Nigeria's "Banknote Fitness Guidelines" (Pro Share).