Currency Coming and Going​

• A few links for Bastille Day on the history of currency during the French Revolution: Assignats (National Bank of Belgium). Money of the French Revolution (ANA). And here (Roberts World Money). And Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press).
• On this day in 1861, the first Greenbacks were issued (Benzinga).
• A $20 Technicolor Note at the Heritage ANA auction (Coin World).
• Name changes on Series 1929 Nationals (Numismatic News).
• Why were fractional currency shields made, and other questions (Numismatic News).
• D.B. Cooper's "Getaway Money" (Coinweek, with video).
• Rare promissory note in Regina (Numismatic News).
• Stack's Bowers to auction Herzog loan certificates (Stack's Bowers).
• Dolla Dolla Bills Y'all (Player FM, podcast with text).
• When going cashless discriminates (The Guardian).
• The Ukraine's new 20 hryvnia banknote (The Bobr Times).
• Solomon Islands new $5 banknote due next year (SIBC).
• Guadalupe chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).
• A Polish 20 zloty note to commemorate the centenary of independence (Banknote News).
• The Gambia to issue a new banknote series in 2019 (Foroyaa).
• Venezuela considers cutting six zeros, rather than three, off the bolivar (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• A rare $1000 gold certificate (Coinweek). And a "Black Eagle" note from the same collection (Coinweek).
• A century of Hyderabad's currency (The New Indian Express).
• Zimbabwe needs its own currency (Nehanda Radio).
• Slovak zero-euro notes are a hit with collectors (The Slovak Spectator).
• Uzbekistan changes its rules on worn and mutilated notes (Azernews).
• Petition to put a "bloody legend" on U.K. banknotes (Sport Bible). And micro-engravings of team leader Harry Kane on fivers? (This is Money).
• The BEP's "Lucky Panda" notes (Coin News).
• Art's "Sense of Humor" at the National Gallery of Art includes James Gillray's "MIDAS, Transmuting all into Gold Paper" (NPR). And this image from Tumblr (Tumblr).