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LOOSE CHANGE: MARCH 31, 2019Here are some additional items I came across in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor
More on the Grouville Hoard This article from ITV News has another image of the monster hoard of Celtic coins and jewellery from Jersey. What painstaking convervation work! -Editor
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BEP To Build New D.C. Facility Arthur Friedberg reported in Coin World March 25, 2019 that the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been given the go-ahead to construct a new printing facility in the Washington, D.C. region. See the complete article for full details along with a history of BEP facilities through the years. -Editor
The existing facility would be renovated to enable the Treasury department to consolidate office space. Would the engraving staff stay or move? What about the small exhibit space and gift shop? Would the new facility offer tours? It might be harder to attract visitors to a suburban location, but this could be an opportunity to create new spaces for the BEP's paper money collection and archives. -Editor
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Malawi Brassiere Money The March 26, 2019 News & Notes from the Society of Paper Money Collectors alerted me to this story from Malawi about a controversy over where some women store their banknotes. -Editor “I have felt bad receiving bank notes from my female customers' bras. Receiving it has only been justified with the fact that I come here to make money otherwise it is embarrassing and women have to stop that act," he tells me. “The bank has an ongoing programme on sensitization of members of the public on currency handling malpractices which include keeping currency notes in bras and other damp places. One of the reasons is indeed the spread of diseases apart from the reduction of the life span of the note. Every damp note is a home of bacteria and other micro-organisms which may transmit diseases. It is indeed our responsibility to provide clean notes at all times and this can only be achieved with the cooperation of the general public," he said in an email response on Tuesday.
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