From the Annals of Crime

• Coin dealers targeted by organized crime (Coinweek).
• Why Are Euros So Difficult to Counterfeit? (EU Business).
• Turkey's "fake dollar crisis" (Duvar).
• Counterfeit Aussie dollars in India (Deccan Herald).
• Macau deals with an increase in "illegal money exchange" (Asia Gaming Brief).
• Panama discovers machines capable of making fake "martinellis" (Newsroom Panama).

                      Websites to Like

• (in no particular order) Paper Money Forum (Numismatic discussion threads) Newman Numismatic Portal (Digital numismatic library) Numismatic Bibliomania Society (Includes E-Sylum, the weekly online complement to the NBS's journal, The Asylum) The American Revenue Association (Hobby website). The Souvenir Card Collectors Society  New York Toll Script and Tokens (Collector website).. The American Historical Print Collectors Society (Hobby website). International Bank Note Society (useful features even for non-members). The Banknote Den (David Lok's website, with superb essays as well as a link to his book, The Many Faces of Money). The Higgins Museum (the one in Okoboji, IA, not Worcester, MA) Cigar History Museum's coupon gallery Boordgeld (Dutch ships' money) Depression Scrip (emergency money of the 1930s, and more) Wisconsin Depression Scrip Caishen's Temple-Asia Money Elkader Auction House Minnesota Nice The Currency Collector (more good essays by John Sandrock). COINWeek (numismatic aggregator with some paper money content). MRI Bankers' Guide (for its updates of new banknotes). Mujand (fantasy banknote maker). Alternative Banknotes and Coins (Alternatehistory). Fantasy thread. Stane Straus's Polymer Banknotes of the World Banknote News (roundup of news and promotional website for The Banknote Book). Mintage World (online museum of Indian numismatics). Chattanooga Money (site details historical episodes in Chattanooga, Tennessee's monetary and banking history) My Georgia Collection (collector site devoted to "Georgia State Notes, Obsolete Currency, Bonds, and Alternative Scrip") Banknotesworld ("THE German-language Banknote forum") Discussion threads and more. Scotsbanknotes Cash Essentials (Industry website devoted to promoting cash usage). Kuster's Engineering (Company website). Your expert in currency disintegration. PYMNTS.com (Industry website). Currency Research (Industry website). International Association of Currency Affairs (Industry website). De La Rue (Company website). Giesecke & Devrient (Company website). Our Passports (travel documents and other ephemera) Social Money (a Flickr album of photographs illustrating modern complementary currencies, heavy on Argentina). Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (search for banknotes etc.). Where's George? (currency tracking project). Banknoter Numismondo  CoinsWeekly, numismatic website run by Ursula Kampmann. German-language version is here. Content is not identical. Blog du CNA (Club Numismatique  d'Argenteuil) AFEP   Association Française pour l'Étude du Papier-monnaie  Monnaies Locales Complementaires Our Money (Eurozone currency). The Ephemera Society of America (Hobby website, with archived articles on ephemera topics) A Library of Scrip and Local Currency Fictional currency galleries (Deviant Art). Pakistani Currency