Currency Coming and Going​

• Zimbabwe's money transfer woes (Nehanda Radio). Zim bond notes "a success" (All Africa) lol.
• The Museum of American Finance is changing its residence (E-Sylum).
• Dismantling Maduro, bolivar by bolivar (Bitcoin Magazine).
• "In Science and Reason We Trust" (Patheos).
• Blood-stained currency (E-Sylum)
• The Petol, a currency based on silver (Topic, via E-Sylum).
• Researching banknote typography (E-Sylum).
• The mystery of the 100,000 mark notgeld (Grimsby Telegraph).
• Gambia's soiled banknotes (Freedom Newspaper).
• Celebrating Georgiana de la Rue (Twitter).
• Making change in Half-Drachmai (PMG).
• What does the Bank of England mean by legal tender? (Bank of England).
• A Scottish currency for an independent Scotland (BBC). Are plans for a Scottish currency just a sop thrown to nationalists? (The Scottish Sun). How Scotland might set about doing it (The Scotsman).
• Belarus proposes common currency with the Russian Federation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• "What monetary system would you create"? (Numismatic News).
• Malaysia's move towards a cashless society (Fintech Malaysia).
• ARTICLE: A portrait of Israel though its Allegoric Figures Series banknotes (Israel Studies, via JSTOR). Gated, but with abstract.
• BOOK: William L. Silber, The Story of Silver (E-Sylum). Silber on the financial crisis of 1914 (Princeton University Press).
• Psychiatric patients' "outsider art" includes renditions of banknotes (National Center for Biotechnology Information, citation with link to full text). Full text available here (Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences).
• Nigeria's fight against mutilated Naira (Independent). “We spend a lot of money printing these bank notes. We print a bank note, release a bank note on a Friday, people go to parties they dance on them. They go to churches, they squeeze it and put it in offering and by Monday it is already old and mutilated and we spend hundreds of billions of Naira to print these notes. It is so unfortunate.’’
• Mistaking a princess for a queen on Costa Rica's banknotes (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• "The fall of the Cedi" (Modern Ghana).
• America, through French eyes (Stack's Bowers).
• Sudan prints more 500 pound notes (All Africa).
• "From the Bible to Banknotes" at the National Museum Zurich (Coinsweekly).
• Overprint error on a $5 bill (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).

This is not the queen you are looking for (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).

                    The Business of Collecting

• PMG offers crossover service to notes slabbed by PCGS Currency (CDN Publishing).
• Legacy Currency Grading, a work in progress (Legacy Currency Grading).
• Another report on the Joel R. Anderson Part IV auction results (Coinweek). And from the mainstream press (Baltimore Sun). And here (Fox News). Results from Stack's Bowers (Stack's Bowers).
• Highlights of Trigometric's upcoming auction (PMG).
• A $25 Sarawak note for sale (Stack's Bowers).
• Wendell Wolka updates his book on Indiana obsolete notes (Coin World). Available as a pdf on CD or flash drive.
• A Treasury Note from 1812 (Coin World).
• CSNS creates Q. David Bowers Award (Numismatic News).
• An $11 bill at auction? (E-Sylum).
• Counterfeit detectors at auction (E-Sylum).

                        New Banknote Issues

• Is the U.K. testing "Monopoly Money"? (The Telegraph).
• "It's purple and yellow and very valuable" (Fox News). And here (Bloomberg).
• Bangladesh's new 100 taka note is coming (The Daily Star).
• Iran's new 500,000 rial "check" (Banknote News). And here (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Northern Ireland goes "plastic" (The Irish News).
• Danske Bank's new 10 pound note (Banknote News). Ulster Bank's 5 pound note (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron).
• More about Mongolia's 5,000 tugruk note (Steven Bron). 
• Guyana's update 1,000 dollar note (Steven Bron).
• New Euro souvenir note celebrates Gandhi's 150th birthday (APN News).
• Uzbekistan's 100,000 som banknote (Coin Update).

                About the Banknote Industry

• De La Rue's track and trace contract (Proactive Investors). And here (De La Rue).
• Crane Currency's RAPID® micro-optics (Crane Currency).
• "The case against holograms" (Securing Industry).
• The ATM Industry Association supports ban on cashless transactions (Vending Times).