1. Money and Art Image bank for schools
Bimetallic £2 coin. Great Britain, AD 1997
Museum number: CM

2. Assignat note for 50 sols; France, AD 1793
Assignat note for 50 sols; France, AD Paper money of the French Revolution.
Museum number: CM CIB 16995

3. Suffragette-defaced penny. United Kingdom, AD 1903
Museum number: CM 1991,0733.1

4. Bronze coin, a 'Lakshmi plaque‘; Sri Lanka, 1st century AD
Bronze coin, a 'Lakshmi plaque‘; Sri Lanka, 1st century AD. The Hindu goddess bathed by elephants.
Museum number: CM

5. 100,000 lire banknote; Italy, AD 1994. Fine art in miniature.
Museum number: CM

6. Money hat from Samu'ah, southern Hebron hills, modern Palestinian Authority, AD 1840s (with later additions).
Museum number: 1968.As4.5

7. William Hogarth, Beer Street and Gin Lane; Published in London, England, AD Negligence, poverty and death in London.
Museum number: PD 1868,

8. Gold-weight; Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), early-19th century AD.
Museum number: Af1878,1228.2

9. Money box in the shape of a television
Money box in the shape of a television. Burma (Myanmar), 20th century AD.
Museum number: CM

10. Trial designs for United Kingdom decimal coinage by Christopher Ironside; AD 1966.
Museum number: CM 2006,

11. 1000 franc note; Equatorial Africa, AD 1963
Museum number: CM CIB 11080

12. Tin ingot in the form of a cockerel
Tin ingot in the form of a cockerel. Perak sultanate, Malaysia, 19th century AD.
Museum number: CM

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