1. Citi Money Gallery Education Programme History of Money Image Bank
Coins from the Hoxne Hoard; Roman Britain, buried in the 5th century AD. Found in Hoxne, Suffolk (1992).
Museum number:
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2. Cowrie shells. From China; Shang and Zhou dynasty, 16th-8th century BC
Museum number: CM

3. Electrum 1/6stater; Lydian, about 650-600 BC
Electrum 1/6stater; Lydian, about BC. From western modern Turkey. One of the very earliest coins.
Museum number: CM BMC Lydia 6

4. Bronze hollow handle spade money
Bronze hollow handle spade money. From Jin state, China; Eastern Zhou dynasty, 5th century BC
Museum number: CM

5. Gold aureus of emperor Claudius; AD 46-47; minted at Rome, Italy
Museum number: 1863,0501.1

6. Silver penny of Eric Bloodaxe. Viking, AD 947-54; York, England.
Museum number: CM SCBI 1228; BMC II, p.238, no.1112

7. Great Ming Circulating Treasure Note from China
Great Ming Circulating Treasure Note from China. Ming dynasty, first issued AD 1375.
Museum number: CM

8. Pieces of eight. Potosi, Bolivia, AD 1589-1598
Pieces of eight. Potosi, Bolivia, AD The eight reales coin, or 'piece of eight', was the most common silver coin of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. As trade became a global activity for the first time, it became the international currency.
Museum number: CM 1920,

9. £5 note, Bank of England. Great Britain, AD 1947
£5 note, Bank of England. Great Britain, AD The black and white fiver.
Museum number: CM

10. Credit card; issued from United Arab Emirates, 2009
Museum number: 2009,4128.2

11. Bimetallic £2 coin. Great Britain, AD 1997
Museum number: CM

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

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