Currency Coming and Going​

• Anti-Brexit parody banknotes (The Guardian). “Arrogantus Toffo Posterium”.
• Just where are Welsh heroes and heroines on banknotes? *Nation Cymru). And is Bank of England governor Mark Carney really "central banking's answer to George Clooney"?
• Is the Bank of Ghana destroying its own banknotes? (Ghana Summary).
• "Pictures of an Exhibition": The Notgeld issues of the City of Kahla, 1921 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Italian overstamps of Yugoslavian banknotes, 1941 (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• How changing patterns of cash usage affect hip-hop music (PYMNTS).
• A report on the local currency of Cochrane, Alberta (660News).
• U.S. dollars still widely circulated in Zimbabwe despite govt edict (MRI Bankers' Guide)
• A creek in Wollongong, New South Wales is awash in currency (7News).
• Pakistan assures fresh currency for Eid (Business Recorder).
• Russia's plan to varnish the ruble (Coin World).
• Romanian football fans protest their club's owner with fake euro banknotes (Reuters). And here (Devdiscourse).
• Architectural landmarks featured on Vietnamese banknote (vnExpress).
• A history of the Egyptian pound (Egyptian Streets).
• "The Life and Death of the Bin Laden" (Slate, via E-Sylum)

     The Business of Collecting

• NEW BOOK: The Emergency Money of Galicia [Das Notgeld Galiziens – Lokales und privates Notgeld im osteuropäischen Galizien 1914-1923] (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• U.S. currency "lacks a story to tell" (Numismatic News).
• PNG has a new President (Coinweek).
• Peter Huntoon is the ANA's Numismatist of the Year (E-Sylum).
• More reminiscences of banknote researcher "Niel" Nielsen (E-Sylum).
• More about the new PCGS hires (Numismatic News).
• Local coverage of the upcoming World's Fair of Money (Journal & Topics).
• PMG certifies previously-unknown British India note (Coinweek).
• Packaging problems with a U.S. Mint product (Coin World).
• The BEP and the U.S. Mint at the World's Fair of Money (Numismatic News).
• High-denomination notes offered by Heritage Auctions (Coinweek).

    The Emergency Currency of Galicia (Geldscheine-online).

     New Banknote Issues

• Australian $20 to enter circulation in October (Reserve Bank of Australia).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• ANA World's Fair of Money, Rosemont, Illinois, August 13-17, 2019 (ANA).
• Long Beach Expo, Long Beach, California, September 5-7, 2019 (Long Beach Expo).
• Paper Money Fair-Maastricht, Valkenburg, Netherlands, September 27-29, 2019 (Paper Money Fair).
• 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

• Good background story on De La Rue's difficulties (EUtoday). "An analogue stock in a digital age"?
• Australia proposes limits on cash transactions (Hall & Wilcox). And also in the Netherlands (NautaDutilh).
• Azerbaijan looks into switching to polymer manats (MENA FN). And here (Azernews).
• Nanotech's 3Q 2019 results and outlook (Newswire). And here (Cantech Letter).
• Kenyan ATMs need to adjust to new banknotes (Star).
• RCMP opens new forensic lab facility (Straight). And here (CISION).