Currency Coming and Going​

• "Feel the energy of money" on this Russian throne (Euro News, video). And here (MSN, video).
• Board games (and their money) in a digital age (PYMNTS).
• Practicing to become another Jim the Penman? (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• The demise of Cuba's convertible peso (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Her nest egg was demonetized (The Navhind Times).
• He left  €20,000 on the roof of his car (Euro News).
• "The last cash given by Dad" (Says). And here (Asia One).
• Celebrating water on a Swiss banknote (Swiss Water Partnership).
• William Turner knew his way around money (Coinsweekly).
• If Britain's banknotes represented its cities (Equity Release Supermarket).
• Costa Rica: Our notes aren't fake (Q Costa Rica).
• Paid to watch men pee (Otago Daily Times).
• Does Scotland's patron saint belong on a banknote? (The Courier).
• South Carolina legislator inveighs against "bills of credit" (New American). And Texas gold storehouses (Kilgore News Herald).
• Christine Lagarde adds her official signature to Euro banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide).

     The Business of Collecting

• Santa-themed banknotes (Numismatic News).
• Stack's Bowers to auction rare Canadian banknote (Coinweek).
• IBNS's Banknote of the Year nominations for 2019, so far (IBNS).
• Some banknotes for sale through MA-Shops (Coinweek).
• Selections from the Holabird December 2019 sale (E-Sylum).
• ANA Summer Seminar scholarships (Numismatic News).
• Heritage auction features Chinese and Indochina banknotes (Coinweek).
• The Hong Kong chapter of the Banknote Book (Banknote News).

     New Banknote Issues

• Sao Tome and Principe's new notes (Banknote News).
• India: Gov't has no plans to withdraw Rs 2,000 notes (Livemint).
• Pakistan: Rs 5,000 note isn't going anywhere (The News).
• Hungary: Old 10,000 forint notes to be retired (Hungary Today).
• Madagascar is retiring notes from 2003-4 (MRI Bankers' Guide).
• Romania's new commemorative lei note (National Bank of Romania).
• Ghana's new cedi banknotes (MRI Bankers' Guide). "What you need to know about " the new banknotes (GhanaWeb).Ghanaians debate their pros and cons (GhanaWeb). Are they even necessary? (GhanaWeb). Lower denomination notes are on their way out (GhanaWeb). Parliamentarian wants to know how much they'll cost (Ghana Crusader). And here, with video link (Banknote News).
• Liberian civil society organization is against the printing of new banknotes (The New Dawn Liberia).
• Cuba celebrates 500 years of Havana (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

• Press release details De La Rue's woes (De La Rue). A De La Rue collapse would threaten its Debden facility (Epping Forest Guardian).
• Despite mobile payments, it's still illegal to refuse cash in China (South China Morning Post).
• From KBA-NotaSys to Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions (Money Cab, in German).
• KOMSCO expands its security repetoire to fight fake labeling (Korea Times).