Currency Coming and Going​

• A common currency for Argentina and Brazil? (Buenos Aires Times).
• The "threat" of Italy's parallel currency (Bloomberg).
• Tanzania and Uganda suspend exchange of Kenyan banknotes (Star).
• Once again, courts rule that "In God We Trust" can stay on U.S. currency (Daily Wire).
• Bringing bank postal banking in the U.S. (City Lab).
• Pandemic and paper money on the big screen (Yahoo Entertainment).
• Ordering McDonald's with foreign currency (Fast Company).
• Orania's local currency, the Ora, is going digital (Wired).
• India seeks to curb use of paper currency by taxing bank withdrawals (India Times).
• A Boston church is producing Tubmans (Religion News Service, via E-Sylum).
• In Venezuela, gold takes the place of currency (The Guardian).
• Origins of the euro symbol (BBC).
• Getting the world away from using the dollar (CNBC).

     The Business of Collecting

• Penguin Random House purchases F+W Media's publishing assets at bankruptcy auction (Publishing Perspectives). This includes Krause Publications. And here (Publisher's Weekly).
• David Lisot video on collecting banknotes and paper money (E-Sylum).
• Items from the upcoming IPMS Lyn Knight auction (E-Sylum).
• Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society grants announced (Numismatic News).
• Rare BoE notes at Spink sale (Numismatic News).
• Heritage auction of Solovey Collection (Coinweek).
• The BEP's "rocketship product" (CoinNews.net).
• Indian expat in Dubai indulges his numismatic hobby (Gulf News). The number 786.

         International Paper Money Show, Kansas City 2019

• IPMS Show website.
• Kansas City 2019 Speakers Series schedule (SPMC).
• 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

• New Mexico 200 peso note coming later this year (Milenio, in Spanish).
• Commemorating Singapore's bicentennial (TODAY). And here (Banknote News). Online retailers tack on a hefty markup (Straits Times).
• Souvenir zero euro notes celebrate Irish themes (EIN Presswire).
• Samoa's commemorative banknote (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron).
• More on Kenya's new banknote series (Coin World). Special edition Kenyan specimens (Kenyans).
• The slump in Zimbabwe's "quasi-currency" (Bloomberg). Zimbabwe's president wants a new currency (Standard). Zimbabwe "not ready" for a new currency (Zim Eye). Workers want U.S. dollars (Bulawayo 24).
• Time for a person of color on British currency? (The Guardian).

           From the "Banknotes of Colour" campaign (The Guardian).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Bank of England prepares for polymer (Print Week). And here (British Plastics & Rubber). And here (Secura Monde).
• Spectra Systems wins banknote contract extension (ShareCast). And here (Morningstar).
• International High Security Printing Conference and the issue of tax stamps (The Costa Rica News).
• Kenya faces a redesign of its ATMs to fit new currency (Kenyans).
• German bid challenges French security printing deal with Nepal (Kathmandu Post).
• Lahnpaper at the International High Security Printing Conference (Lahnpaper).
• De La Rue's "carbon neutral" banknote for Samoa (De La Rue).
• De La Rue's profits hurt by Venezuelan write-off (Coin World).