Currency Coming and Going​

• With demonetization deadline looming, Kenyans splurge with their Ksh 1,000 notes (Weetracker). And here (Yahoo News). The missing shillings (Star).
• The beauty of German notgeld (The Guardian).
• Facebook's Libra and its antecedents (JP Konig).
• The evolution of Kenyan banknotes since the 1905 Rupee (Star).
• The Bank of England Museum's Spooky Soiree (Londonist).
• Amid inflation, Zimbabwe confronts currency shortages (ZimLive).
• Kenya's High Court approves Kenyatta's effigy on banknote (Nairobi News).
• Oman's Currency Museum (Times of Oman).
• Older Northern Ireland notes are leaving circulation (Belfast Telegraph). And here (BBC News).
• The Bank of New South Wales' 5 pound note (Western Advocate).
• Hong Kong protest marches include wads of Hell Bank Notes (AP News).
• Banking and currency in Costa Rica (The Costa Rica News).
• The decline of collecting (The Sydney Morning Herald).
• Britain's missing cash (Finextra).

     The Business of Collecting

• Guatemala chapter of the Banknote Book is available (Banknote News).
• Spink to offer rare BoE notes (Numismatic News). And here (PMG).
• A "Dukatenscheisser" satirizes hyperinflationary banknotes (Coin World).
• Otto Karl Seiffert's collection of specimen banknotes (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• How Beethoven came to Japan through the Bando prisoner-of-war camp (Geldscheine-online, in German).

Germany prisoner-of-war currency issued in Japan's Bando camp (Geldscheine-online).

     New Banknote Issues

• Honduras is looking into issuing a 1,000 lempira banknote (Radio America, in Spanish).
• Georgia's new 10 lari banknote (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (MENA FN).
• Australia's new $20 unveiled (Weekly Times, video). And here (News.com, video).
• Albania's new polymer series (Famagusta Gazette).
• Ukraine is printing new 1,000 hryvnia banknotes (UNIAN).
• A North Korean commemorative overprint (Banknote News).
• Poland's 19 zloty commemorative (Steven Bron).
• New Eastern Caribbean $10 polymer is now in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Kenyans complain about the poor quality of their new notes (the Star).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• World Paper Money Fair, London, England, October 4-5, 2019 (IBNS London).
• Numismata Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October 12-13, 2019 (Numismata).
• Whitman Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14-17, 2019 (Whitman Expo).
• 38th annual Paris Paper Money Show, Paris-Bagnolet, France, February 8, 2020 (AFEP).
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC). Yes, that year is 2021.

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Bank of Uganda reshuffles currency staff (Daily Monitor).
• South Australian Government to allow banknote-accepting poker machines (CasinoGuardian).
• The Philippines' new security printing facility (Numismatic News).
• De La Rue installs a "bespoke printing system" (Labels & Labeling).
• Nanotech's new KolourDepth banknote security feature (Yahoo Finance).
• Security printing with invisible ink (Science Daily).
• New board members for the International Tax Stamp Association (Securing Industry).
• The disruptions caused by fintech (DevDiscourse).
• The marijuana industry in the USA seeks to enter the cash economy (The American Prospect).