Currency Coming and Going​

• Ex-PCGS Currency head Bradford starts new grading service (CoinNews). And here (Numismatic News).
• On February 25, 1862, the Legal Tender Act was passed (Politico).
• Canadian notes shine at Stack's Bowers NYINC auction (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Highlight of the Joel R. Anderson Part 4 sale: 1882 $1,000 gold certificate (Coinweek).
• Personnel and program changes at Heritage Auction (Coin World).
• Heritage Auctions does a good annual business (Coin News).
• A rare Home Bank of Canada note (Coin News).
• Results from the Heritage FUN auction included Zanzibar note (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Zimbabwe has its own currency again, sort of (BBC). The "RTGS Dollar". Is the government "too ashamed" to admit it? (All Africa). And another explanation here (MRI Bankers' Guide). Some background to the Zim central bank's move (Quartz Africa).
• Croatia is getting close to adopting the Euro (The Dubrovnik Times).
• How cash might function in a negative interest rate world (IMF Blog).
• A brief history of paper money (Interesting Engineering).
• A look at Canadian currency's security features (CTV News Toronto).
• A Bisbee, Arizona check payable in Mexican silver (American Numismatic Association).
• Philippine centennial notes lose legal tender status (Philippine Star). And here (ABS-CBN News).
• With the withdrawal of the notes of Northern Ireland's First Trust Bank, there are now eleven private banknote issuers in the entire world (JP Konig).
• The strange Haitian Dollar (JP Konig).
• Mathematicians on banknotes (Maths et Tiques, in French).
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's Banque du Peuple (Liberation, in French).
• Philippines central bank governor dies (Banknote News).
• Kazakhstan to limit its banknotes to Kazakh language only (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Boosting banknote use in the U.K. through retail cashbacks (Yahoo Finance).
• World War I propaganda on banknotes and elsewhere: "Gott Strafe England" (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Austria's inflation banknotes of 1922 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• NEW BOOK: Notgeld Elbe-Ester (Geldscheine-online, in German). Emergency money issued between 1917 and 1945 in the former districts Liebenwerda, Schweinitz and Torgau and the region around Finsterwalde.
• In Kenya, it's all about the 'elephants' (Business Daily Africa).
• Chinese banknote scenery: The Wuxia Gorge (CGTN).
• Does Britain have a plan for a cashless future? (Quartz).
• When you wish banknotes were child-proof (Chepicap).
• Auction of rare U.S. notes makes the mainstream news (CNN).
• "Print-your-own" banknotes? (Central Banking).
• When U.S. currency stars in films (FRB of San Francisco).
• How we get movie money (CNN). Hugely interesting.

    Prop money from Breaking Bad, Season Five: "How Much is Enough?"

                    New Banknote Issues

• Australia's new $20 banknote (Sydney Morning Herald). And here (Banknote News). This note also celebrates the Royal Doctor Flying Service (ABC).
• Vanuatu's 500 vatu commemorative note (Banknote News).
• Rwanda's 500 and 1,000 franc notes (Banknote News).
• Mongolia's 5,000 tugrik banknote enters circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bolivia's new 200 boliviano note to appear in April (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• A new Yemeni 100 rial banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Ulster Bank goes with polymer, vertical design for new notes (Euronews). And here (Love Belfast).
• New Uzbek banknote will "ease shopping" (France 24).
• New euro notes a better fit in one's wallet (Newsbook).
• Venezuela looks to issue higher-denomination "sobierno" notes (Avance24, in Spanish).
• Albania intends to issue a 10,000 lëkë banknote (Albanian Daily News).

                     The Ulster Bank steps up its game (Love Belfast).

             About the Banknote Industry

• Some manufacturing specifications of the new Australian $20 note (Secura Monde).
• Business prospects for De La Rue (Seeking Alpha).
• The outlook for Security Papers Ltd. (Business Recorder).
• India declares its currency printing firms to be public utility services (Financial Express).