this place is just full of rows and rows of coins, if you want to scrutinize each one, it will take months, i think they have more than 500000 objects in the collection
one of the only coins i saw that had a depression, most had motifs that stood out, this one sunk in.
british coin. i forgot to take a picture of the penny farthing, gah....
huh? thats a coin?
indonesian coins called 'duit'
this one i really cannot understand
this is what treasure ships and priate tales are full of - ingots of gold
There was the beginning of the dollar, then known as the Thaller, which came from the owner of a silver mine in Czech, Mr Joachimsthaler. He named the 27gram silver coins he produced after himself, and now most countries’ currencies are named after him (at a lot less value than 27 grams of silver). Outside of
First generation 'dollars' from various countries:
anytiem you talk of money, you talk of saving. here was a display shelf of differnt boxes throughout the ages.
some large coins. finger for comparison of size. i forgot why i took this photo.
treasure dug from the murky waters of Gamla Stan, in STocholm. seems like alot of old ships sunk in swedish waters, so the government quite active in searching out for any signs of such.
The other parts of the display were about recession, inflation, cost of living, wages, stock market, and the financial system in general, but I could not understand anything of it. So my visit ends here.
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