Currency Coming and Going​

• The International Paper Money Show is scheduling speaker presentations (Numismatic News).
• The Ephemera Society of America, Annual Conference and Fair, Old Greenwich, CT, March 14-17, 2019 (ESA).
• A Mint-state note from the Yucatan reveals its text (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• March 11, 1935, when Canada first issued truly 'Canadian" banknotes (RCI).
• When Marion, Kansas had its own currency (Marion County Record).
• "Patriotic money" of the Venetian Republic from 1848 (Geldscheine-Online, In German).
• BOOK: Kjell William Riebbe's Norwegian Banknotes Collection (Geldscheine-Online, in German). Book itself appears to be in Norwegian.
• "A world without cash" (CNBC).
• Philadelphia bans cashless stores (Philadelphia Inquirer). But could it backfire? (Quartz).
• Magical ATMs in Mexico dispense free money (Mexico News Daily).
• How Japan hopes to replace physical yen (Quartz). How currency use has disappeared in Sweden (The Guardian).
• The demise of the Totnes Pound (BBC).
• Belgian town partying like it's 1939 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).
• Prospects for a Scottish currency (BBC).
• A U.S. $3 note proposed to honor "hero dogs" (Coin World).
• How India's currency has changed over five years (The Times of India).
• Did India's demonetization of high-value banknotes work? (BBC).
• "What would the Cypriot pound look like today?" (in-Cyprus).
• Cash blowing in the wind was meant to honor the dead (KTVU). It's an "Oakland thing."
• Queen Elizabeth II on currency, from 1951 to the present (Tom Chao).
• "The Mirage of a Global Euro" (EU Bulletin).

               "Patriotic Money" of the Venetian Republic, 1848 (Geldscheine-Online)

               The Business of Collecting

• Three prominent PCGS-graded notes recertified by PMG's crossover service (CDN Publishing). And here (PMG).
• PMG-certified notes in the upcoming Monetarium Singapore auction (PMG).
• People's Republic of China notes offered at Hong Kong auction (Stack's Bowers).
• A report on Canada's TOREX numismatic show (Coinweek).
• Heritage to run a weekly online currency auction (Coinsweekly).
• Bank of Scotland's Pudsey Bear note will go for a high price (Coin World).

                   New Banknote Issues

• Questions and answers about Switzerland's new 1,000 franc note (The Local). What does it take to earn one of these notes, and what can they buy? (SWI).
• The Swiss manage to offend the Iranians in announcing their new note (News.am).
• Swiss have an issue date for their new 100 franc note (Steven Bron).
• Sudan's new 100 pound note is not without its problems (Coin World).
• A new variety of Mexico's 100 peso note (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bank of Guyana's new $1,000 note appeared March 5 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Bank of Ireland's new Northern Ireland  £5 note (Banknote News). And the  £10 note (Banknote News).
• Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to sponsor creation of a blockchain-based digital currency (ECCB).
• A new push to get Tubman on the twenty (Baltimore Sun).

             About the Banknote Industry

• Crane Currency officers are subject to criminal charges arising out of the Liberian banknote scandal (Liberian Observer).
• New BEP facility will allow the U.S. government to save money making money (Roll Call).
• Irish central bank suspends printing of euro notes at its Dublin facility (RTE).
• De La Rue's contributions to Northern Ireland's new polymer banknotes (De La Rue).