Currency Coming and Going​

•  Why not put Harriet Tubman on a $25 bill? (National Review).
• "Future of Money" (SIX Group). A SIX White Paper, pdf.
• Alan Turing on British currency (IMF).
• The rise of electronic payments sinks a paper local currency, the Lake District Pound (BBC).
• This local currency, the Cochrane Dollar, wins an award (Cochrane Today).
• A Canadian banknote view of the Okanagan Valley (Vernon Morning Star).
• New Zealand's high-tech money (tvnz).
• "Count the Liberian Banknotes" (Liberian Observer).
• The Philippines will have plenty of notes for the holidays (GMA News).
• The life expectancy of Korean banknotes (Yonhap News).
• What to do with your damaged ringgit (Yahoo News).
• It was raining money in Kolkata (Sputnik).
• Zimbabwe demands cash (Bulawayo24).
• Women on banknotes (Yahoo Finance).
• India's Rs 2,000 notes are good for hoarding (The Sentinel).
• Falun Gong overstamps (The Epoch Times). Original story seems from a few years ago.
• A Monetary History of the USA, Part 4 (Coinsweekly).
• She found her mom's signature on an old banknote (CTV News).
• Protesters in Malta toss fake banknotes (Times of Malta).

     The Business of Collecting

• PCGS Banknote (Numismatic News). And here (Coin World).
• Chinese notes at the Gadoury auction  (Coin Update).
• Stack's Bowers Baltimore auction (Numsimatic News).
• Suspicious features of a Bank of Madras note (PMG).
• An homage to sunlight (PMG).
• Hong Kong's banks and currency (PMG).
• An alternative to banks' safety deposit boxes (Bloomberg, via E-Sylum).
• CAC offers CDN's CPG prices (Coinweek). Go figure out for yourself what that means.

     New Banknote Issues

• Czech commemorative plans include honoring Karel Engliš on a banknote (Czech National Bank). And here (Radio Prague). And here (Banknote News).
• Liberian lawmakers in the dark about new banknotes (The New Dawn Liberia).
• Zimbabwe to introduce higher denomination banknotes (News Ghana). 
• New currency, new hope in Zimbabwe? (Geopolitical Monitor). In Matabeleland, folks stick with the rand (All Africa).
• Norway's 1,000 krone note (Banknote News).
• Cuba's 500 peso note (Banknote News).
• Scotland's new notes (Coin World).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Show, January 9-12, 2020 (FUN).
• New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC), January 16-19, 2020 (NYINC).
• 38th annual Paris Paper Money Show, Paris-Bagnolet, France, February 8, 2020 (AFEP).
• Annual meeting of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, May 20-23, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky (AHPCS)
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC). Yes, that year is 2021.

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• De La Rue suspends its dividend and warns about its future (BBC). And here (Reuters). And here (The Guardian). Fears for the company's Gateshead plant (The Northern Echo).
• A brief timeline of De La Rue's 200 year history (Reuters).
• Key-hole holograms (MENA FN).
• Quality concerns about Kenya's new banknotes (Soko Directory).
• Excellence in Holography Awards 2019 (Professional Security Magazine).
• What stops you from photocopying banknotes (SRF, in German).
• Nanotech at HSP Asia (Yahoo Finance).
• Toppan Printing at HSP Asia (What They Think).
• France and Greece restrict use of cash (CashEssentials).