Things to Read While You're in Self-Quarantine 

           --Each week News & Notes brings you five articles from around The Web with paper money content--

• "They are Exactly as Banknotes are": Perceptions and Technologies of Banknote Forgery During the Bank Restriction Period, 1797-1821, by Jack Mockford (UHRA). PhD dissertation, University of Hertfordshire, November 2014.
• The History of Japanese Paper Currency, 1868-1890, by Masayoshi Takaki (Google Books). First published by Johns Hopkins University in 1903.
• Balancing Security and Aesthetics: The Evolution of Modern Banknote Design, by Chris Salmon and George Baldwin (British Numismatic Society). From the British Numismatic Journal, 2014.
• The FIrst Euros: The Creation and Issue of the First Euro Banknotes and the Road to the Europa Series, by Antii Heinonen (European Central Bank).
• Clearing House Loan Certificates and Substitutes for Money Used During the Panic of 1907, by James B. Cannon (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). Pdf downloadable at link. Originally published in 1910. Illustrations recommended.

     Currency Coming and Going​

• This is definitely not social distancing (Gulte).
• How Jasper County, Missouri banks dealt with the Panic of 1907 (The Joplin Globe).
• "Monopoly money" to fight the Nazis (Metro).
• Nudity on banknotes (Steven Bron). Because why not? From 2014.
• The Onion on the nature of money (The Onion). From ten years ago, but somehow relevant seeming.

                                          Ben Burnanke (The Onion)