Tales From the Vault – Golden California: The Era of Private Coinage
21 Oct 2025Click on images for an enhanced view On a crisp January morning in 1848, carpenter James W. Marshall [...]
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Tales From the Vault – Swedish Plate Money: Too Heavy to Steal!
16 Apr 2024Sweden's large copper lumps or “plates” ranged in weight from 378g (just under a pound) to a staggering [...]
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Tales From the Vault – The Markoff Collection
1 Jul 2022In 1979, the Money Museum received an incredible donation combining numismatic and presidential history. The Elliott Markoff Collection [...]
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Tales From the Vault – Bryan Money
2 Jun 2021Objects from the Money Museum highlight the politics of a bygone era “You shall not crucify mankind upon [...]
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Tales From the Vault – Child’s Play
19 Feb 2021A “Play Money” collection details a fun, ongoing series for young and young at heart In 2018, the [...]
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Tales From the Vault – Golden State Gold
22 Dec 2020A need for small-denomination coinage spawns a fascinating collector series The California Gold Rush created an immediate need [...]
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Tales From the Vault: The Joy of Jetons
1 Sep 2020King Louis XV struck tokens to popularize France’s American colonies and encourage emigration. A little-known series of interesting [...]
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Tales From the Vault: The Multiple Thalers of Brunswick
12 Jun 2020Far from pocket change, these large silver coins helped fund the defense of kingdoms Thalers are silver coins [...]
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Tales From the Vault: Celebrating Women in Numismatics
10 Apr 2020This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the United [...]
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Tales From the Vault: Royal Portraits
14 Oct 2019Monarchs have appeared on English coinage since the kingdom’s establishment in AD 927 Many objects in the Edward [...]
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