Currency Coming and Going​

• On collecting physical objects in a digital world (New York Times).
• How to stop Venezuela's hyperinflation? Lessons from Brazil (Americas Quarterly).
• Does America's colonial monetary experience really provide lessons for the present day? (AIER).
• Does the Irish Free State's monetary experience really provide lessons for Scotland's monetary independence? (Commonspace).
• The SDR turns fifty (EABW).
• Scottish banknotes turned down once again in England (The Herald).
• Denmark cracks down on 500 euro notes (Bloomberg).
• Why are Indian R2,000 banknotes disappearing from circulation? (The Print). An election connection? Officials seize cash supplies destined for electioneering. The Reserve Bank of India claims it can track currency (The Times of India).
• The Milwaukee Bank Riot of 1861 (NPR).
• U.K. Conservative Party official calls for greater banknote diversity (The Voice). Promoting Mary Prince (The Royal Gazette).
• India's "electoral bonds" (The Hindu).
• New Zim currency "a joke in bad taste" (All Africa). Why a weak Zim currency wouldn't be so bad (Nehanda Radio).
• One dead animal, one banknote (Yahoo News). Aww.
• "The Colors of Money" (ANA Coin Press).
• "Banknotes in Bottles in Coal Mines" (Moneyness).
• Terrorists prefer cash to cryptocurrencies (CCN). Here is the study from the Rand Corporation (Rand).
• The rich have more cash (PYMNTS). Uh, OK.
• How cash consciousness might interfere with saving (Science Daily).

     The Business of Collecting

• Layoffs loom at F + W Media's Krause Publications (Stevens Point Journal). And here (WSAU).
• Certified Collectibles Group expands its certification services to India (PMG).
• PMG reports on PCGS Currency-grade notes submitted to its CrossOver service (PMG).
• Kagin's auction results for War of 1812 issues (Coin World).
• "A question of perspective": Historical mistakes on a zero euro souvenir note (Coinsweekly, in German).
• Spink's London sale in April promises Commonwealth rarities (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Kagin's National Money Show auction featured notes of New Zealand, Israel (Coin World).
• Japan's imperial banknotes (Intelligent Collector).
• Video highlights of Stack's Bowers auction in February 2019 of Joel R. Anderson material (Coinweek). And here (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Mini 200 euro notes made out of silver by the Dutch Mint (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Seventeen important books on paper money (PMG). From 2017.
• Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the collectibles market (Bitnews Today).

        International Paper Money Show, Kansas City 2019

• IPMS Show website
• Sign up for the 58th Anniversary Breakfast at the IPMS, Kansas City, June 14, 2019 (SPMC).
• While at this year's IPMS, sign up for a FREE tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, June 13, 2019 (SPMC).

     New Banknote Issues

• Japan announces plan to redesign its currency (NHK). And here (Asahi Shimbun). The "Great Wave" will appear on the ¥1,000 note (CNN).  The revamp does not include the ¥2,000 note (The Japan Times). The changeover is timed to coincide with the beginning of the Reiwa imperial era (Nikkei Asian Review). Picture gallery here (Mainichi). South Korea objects to the ¥10,000 portrait of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (KBS World Radio).
• Bank of Ghana to issued "upgraded" notes (News Ghana). And here (Modern Ghana).
• Bahama's new $3 note now in circulation (Coin World).
• Azerbaijan's new 10 manat note has appeared (Banknote News).
• Yemen's new 100 rial note will be out soon (MRI Bankers' Guide).

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso introduces new Japanese banknotes (Mainichi).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• The BEP's move to Beltsville (Patch). It would make for a longer trip for the tourists in Washington D.C. (WTOP). What the cost savings of the move might be (Printing Impressions).
• Central Bank of the Philippines' Clean Note and Coin Policy (Manila Bulletin).
• De La Rue has been voted a "Superbrand" by UK marketing group (De La Rue).
• Crane's new machine-readable banknote security features (Crane Currency).
• Finalists for the 2019 IACA Excellence in Currency awards (Coinsweekly).
• KOMSCO names brand ambassador (The Korea Times).
• Authentix acquires Security Print Solutions Ltd. (Cision).
• Nanotech Security reports negative earnings (Thorold News).
• Sun Chemical's security ink division launches its ASPECT line of inks (Security Document World).
• American Banknote Corporation appoints two VPs (Cision).
• Plans to redesign Japan's currency boosts stock price of cash sorting machine cos (Bloomberg).
• Obituary: Maurice O'Connell, the last man to sign an Irish Punt (Independent).
• Obituary: Nathaniel Whiteside III, owner of the Midwest Bank Note Company (Boca Beacon).