Things to Read While You're in Self-Quarantine 

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

                  Episodes and Institutions from the National Banking Era​

• The First National Bank of Memphis (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency).
• The Chester (NY) National Bank (Chester Historical Society).
• Banks and Bankers of Lexington, Kentucky (Lex History). Links to short articles on all of Lexington's banks, not just national banks. Excellent currency images.
•  Albion Bank Scandal (Historical Albion Michigan). Originally published 1998 in The Numismatist.
• Banking and Finance in Utah (Utah Historical Encyclopedia).
• The National Banks of Fargo, North Dakota (North Dakota State University). Links to short articles on six different national banks, with excellent building photographs.
• Financing an Empire: A History of Banking in Illinois, by Francis Murray Huston (University of Illinois). High-quality scan by Internet Archive of Volume III, with banker biographies. Originally published 1926. Very large pdf file.
• Paper Money of the United States, Chapter XI by Arthur and Ira Friedberg (Neil S. Berman). This is the chapter on National Bank Notes, pdf file.
• The Higgins Museum of National Bank Notes (Higgins Museum).

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     Currency Coming and Going​

• Mexico's 20 peso note is being retired from circulation, so of course now people want it (Explica).
• The BEP could tell you about its R&D program, but then it would have to kill you (Coin World).
• What seigniorage does, and doesn't, do (JP Koning).
• The basics of Lebanese bartering (Al Khaleej Today).
• More on Tenino's novelty currency (The Daily Chronicle).