Coins, Currency, and Medals

The museum possesses one of the largest and most diverse numismatic collections in the world. Its diverse holdings represent every inhabited continent and span more than three millennia. The collection includes coins, paper money, medals, tokens, commodity and alternative currencies, coin dies, printing plates, scales and weights, financial documents and apparatuses, credit cards, and objects that reflect established and emerging digital monetary technologies worldwide.

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ID Number
NU.297219.141474
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297219.141474
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141464
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297219.141464
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141457
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297219.141457
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141473
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297219.141473
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141468
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297219.141468
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141459
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297219.141459
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141475
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297219.141475
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141462
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297219.141462
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141477
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297219.141477
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141470
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297219.141470
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141471
catalog number
297219.141471
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141460
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297219.141460
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141463
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297219.141463
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141467
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297219.141467
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141466
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297219.141466
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141478
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297219.141478
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141458
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297219.141458
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141472
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297219.141472
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141469
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297219.141469
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141461
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297219.141461
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141476
catalog number
297219.141476
accession number
297219
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ID Number
NU.297219.141465
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297219.141465
accession number
297219
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manufacturer
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
ID Number
NU.297219.261096
accession number
297219
catalog number
297219.261096
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ID Number
NU.297219.141479
catalog number
297219.141479
accession number
297219

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