Currency Coming and Going​

• The steps by which U.S. currency was made, 1877 (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News). Full of details, highly interesting.
• In numismatics, variety can be the spice of life (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).
• Ten expensive banknotes (Value Walk).
• The McCartney National Bank of Green Bay (Numismatic Notebook, via E-Sylum).
• Paying prisoners of war in the United States (Numismatic Notebook, via E-Sylum).
• Malaysia's RM50 notes aren't going anywhere (World of Buzz).
• To promote greater school funding, British parents are encouraged to create  £500 notes online, with their children's portraits, to send to Prime Minister Theresa May (ITV News).
• Zambia threatens to crank up the printing press (The Mast).
• Keeping it riel in Cambodia (The Phnom Penh Post).
• Google to the Ghanaian Cedi: Oops, sorry (CNN).
• "How RMB Records China's Progress" (People).
• A wallet designed to help the visually-impaired identify their banknotes (South China Morning Post).
• More Venezuelan banknote handicrafts (AA).
• State Bank of Pakistan and the blind don't see eye-to-eye (Daily TImes).
• Keeping abreast of where Malawian women store their money (Malawi24).
• Singapore issues replica banknotes to commemorate its bicentennial (Straits Times).
• How to carry a million dollars, suitcase edition (Komando). Short instructional video. Hey, it's easy!

     The Business of Collecting

• The ANA's National Money Show in Pittsburgh, PA, March 28-30, 2019 (Coinweek). Here is the official website (ANA). Here is a schedule of the "Money Talks" presentations (ANA).
• ANA summer seminars include "The Wonderful World of Paper Money" (Coinweek).
• BOOK: The Collector's Guide to Japanese Invasion Money, 2nd ed. (Japanese Invasion Money).
• A $500 Treasury note from 1847 turns out to have been a contemporary counterfeit (Coin World).
• The Home Bank of Canada's $5 note is no longer unique (Coin World).
• Learn about Ontario banks and their paper money at the Timmins Coin Club's next meeting (Timmins Today).
• A $10 Straits Settlements note from 1934 (Stack's Bowers).
• Dix Noonan Webb to auction rare Bank of England  £100 note (LancsLive)
• Tax-related paperwork burdens grow for numismatic firms (Numismatic News).
• A view of the F+W bankruptcy declaration: "The End of Krause Publications?" (Coinsweekly). More commentary here about what bankruptcy means for F+W's numismatic publications (E-Sylum). Perspective by Harvey Stack (E-Sylum). "Well sh*t..." (Steven Bron). Concern expressed by Banknote News (Banknote News).
• Heritage Auctions promotes Dustin Johnston to VP (Bank Note Reporter, via Numismatic News).

        International Paper Money Show, Kansas City 2019

• Show Website
• Sign up for the 58th Anniversary Breakfast at the IPMS, Kansas City, June 14, 2019 (SPMC).
• While at this year's IPMS, sign up for a FREE tour of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, June 13, 2019 (SPMC).
• Speakers/presentations sought for IPMS, Kansas City, June 14-15 2019 (Numismatic News). Deadline to sign up is April 1.

     New Banknote Issues

• Somalia begins planning to replace its old currency (Shabelle Media Network).
• New Indian R100 notes to be out soon (Zee Business).
• The Bahama's new $3 note to appear March 28 (MRI Bankers' Guide). Here is the official notice (Central Bank of the Bahamas). And here (Steven Bron).
• Azerbaijan's new 10 manat note (Banknote News). And here (Steven Bron).
• Ethiopia's central bank seeks to secure new banknote supplies, producer yet unknown (All Africa).

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Program for the Currency Conference, April 7-11, 2019 (Currency Conference).
• Another notice of the BEP's proposed new "money factory" (Coin World).
• The future of payments, as viewed from Finland (Mint of FInland).
• Orell Füssli's annual report for 2018 (Orell Füssli)
• Spectra Systems profit increase for 2018 (Morningstar).
• Outlook for Koenig & Bauer (WhatTheyThink).
• G+D Currency Technology wins design award (Giesecke + Devrient).
• Security printing in transition to the digital era (Smithers Pira).
• Crane Currency expands employment at its Malta facility (Times of Malta).
• Crane Company's 2018 annual report (Craneco).
• Nepal signs MOU with France to establish a security printing facility (Nepali Sansar)."The project site will have separate building blocks including a bullet-proof one for printing currency notes, say the sources associated with the project."
• In a twist, Swedish government may require banks to handle cash transactions (Bloomberg).
• "Cash in the Era of the Digital Payments Panopticon" (Institute of Network Cultures).
• Why cash made a comeback in India after demonetization (Trak.in).
• Zimbabwean entrepreneur seeks to patent an invention entitled “Banknote Possession Tracking and Deposit Enforcement Methods” (Lexology).