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$10 note
$A10 note
$HK1 note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
$US1 note
$US500 note
£1 note
£1 note
£1 siege note
£1 Treasury note
£10 note, Alton Bank
£10 note, Bank of England
£2 note issued by Evans, Jones, Davies & Co.
£20 note, Halifax Joint Stock Bank
£5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company
£5 note of the Union Bank of Scotland
£5 note, Bank of England
£6 note
1 guinea note, Royal Bank of Scotland
1,000,000 mark note
1/8th tical note
10 dollar note for Malaya
10 guinea note, Great Yarmouth Bank
10,000 reis note
100 daler note
100 qurush note
100 srang note
100,000 lire banknote
1000 franc note
1000 franc note
1000 ruble note
1000 ruble note
10s note, Bank of England
10s note, Llanidloes Bank
5 guinea coin of Charles II
5 sum note
50 gulden note
50 livres note, Banque Royale
50 markka note
50 Pfennig note
500,000,000,000 dinar note
A fake coin depicting Brutus
Aes signatum or money ingot
Assignat note for 50 sols
Badge for LGBT History Month
Badge of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Badge of the Organisationen til Oplysning om Atomkraft
Bamboo tally
Base silver penny of Olaf III, 'the Peaceful'
Base-silver radiate of Carausius, with the emperors Diocletian and Maximian
Base-silver radiate of Maximian
Base-silver radiate of the usurper emperor Allectus
Bharatiya Janata Party badge
Bill of exchange
Billon tetradrachm of the city of Alexandria, reign of Commodus
Bimetallic £2 coin
Black Panther Party badge
Boer War Badge
Brass advertising token issued by John Kirk
Brass anti-slavery medal
Brass cash coin of the Taiping Rebellion
Brass pitis (cash) of the Sultanate of Palembang
Brass reckoning counter, Rechenmeister type
Brass sestertii of Hadrian showing Personifications of Africa and Spain
Brass sestertius of Hadrian
Brass sestertius of Nero
Brass sestertius of Titus, showing the Colosseum
Brass sestertius with the omen of the great sow
Brass whist marker
Britannia on a copper coin of Hadrian
Bronze 1 macuta of José I of Portugal (1750-77)
Bronze 100 mon coin
Bronze amulet in the shape of a 100 mon coin
Bronze as of Antoninus Pius, showing Britannia
Bronze banliang coin
Bronze cast coin
Bronze coin of Agathocles
Bronze coin of Augustus and Agrippa, with pig's trotter appendage
Bronze coin of Caracalla with Christian graffiti
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII
Bronze coin of Ephesos, reign of emperor Macrinus
Bronze coin of Ephesos, reign of Valerian
Bronze coin of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan
Bronze coin of Herod I 'the Great', king of Judaea
Bronze coin of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaea
Bronze coin of Satakarni
Bronze coin of Smyrna, reign of emperor Caracalla
Bronze coin of Tarsus, reign of emperor Elagabalus
Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
Bronze coin, a 'Lakshmi plaque'
Bronze coin-shaped charm
Bronze Daguan tongbao coin
Bronze Daibinh thinhbao coin
Bronze dolphin money
Bronze follis of Theodohad
Bronze hollow handle spade money
Bronze Hongwu tongbao coin
Bronze Kaiyuan tongbao coin
Bronze knife coin inlaid with gold
Bronze medal celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by Leonard Wyon after Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir Edgar
Bronze medal of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Benedetto Pistrucci
Bronze medal of George Washington, by Pierre Simon Duvivier
Bronze medal of Giovanni-Battista Belzoni
Bronze medal of James Watt, by Joseph Wyon
Bronze medal of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, by Johann Gottfried Schadow
Bronze medal of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Battle of the Pyramids, by Jean Joseph Dubois
Bronze medal of William Stukeley and Stonehenge
Bronze nummus of Magnentius with Christogram
Bronze ramo secco bar
Bronze reliquary and Kushan coins from a Buddhist relic deposit
Bronze sestertius of Nero with harbour scene
Bronze sestertius with the Circus Maximus
Byzantine solidus and its Islamic imitation
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, £5 note
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, proof of £5 note
Cast and chased gold medal of Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard
Cast and chased gold medal of Mary I, by Jacopo da Trezzo
Cast and chased silver medal of Cardinal Richelieu by Jean Warin
Cast and chased silver medal of Emperor Charles V, by Leone Leoni
Cast and chased silver medal of Philip II of Spain by Gianpaolo Poggini
Cast bronze medal commemorating the Pazzi Conspiracy by Bertoldo di Giovanni
Cast bronze medal of Andrea Doria, by Leone Leoni
Cast bronze medal of Baron Justus von Liebig, by David d'Angers
Cast bronze medal of Charles Darwin by Alphonse Legros
Cast bronze medal of Christina, queen of Sweden by Massimiliano Soldani
Cast bronze medal of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Quentin Metsys (about 1462-1530)
Cast bronze medal of Giovanni Bellini by Vittorio Gambello
Cast bronze medal of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, by Gian Cristoforo Romano
Cast bronze medal of Isotta degli Atti by Matteo de' Pasti
Cast bronze medal of John VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium, by Pisanello
Cast bronze medal of Leon Battista Alberti by Matteo de'Pasti
Cast bronze medal of Leonello d'Este, Marchese of Ferrara, by Pisanello
Cast bronze medal of Pietro Aretino
Cast bronze medal of Pope Julius II commemorating the building of St Peter's
Cast bronze medal of René de Birague by Germain Pilon
Cast bronze medal of shipbuilding in Germany, by Ludwig Gies
Cast bronze medallion of Henri IV and Marie de Medici, by Guillaume Dupré
Cast gold medal of King Charles I, by Nicolas Briot: the Dominion of the Seas
Cast gunmetal medal of Louis XIV of France by Jean Warin
Cast silver gilt medal of King Charles I by Thomas Rawlins
Cast silver plaque depicting the voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Michael Mercator
Cast, chased and soldered silver medal of the Holy Trinity, by Hans Reinhart the Elder
Ceramic gambling token
Chairman Mao badge
Cheque of Barclay's Bank
Chocolate money
Christopher Ironside, designs for the United Kingdom two pence coin
Christopher Ironside, four sets of designs for United Kingdom decimal coins
Christopher Ironside, plaster model and sketch of a design for the United Kingdom five pence coin
Cloth banknote for 3 strings of cash
Coin dies and silver penny of Edward III
Coin of King Joel
Coin of Sultan Sulaman ibn al-Hasan
Coin of the Greek poet Sappho
Coin sword
Coin tree of brass Guangxu zhongbao coins
Coins deposited in the Court of Chancery, in the case 'Jones v. Lloyd'
Coins from the Hoxne hoard
Coins from the Tigris hoard
Coin-shaped charm
Coin-sword
Commercial Bank of Scotland, design for £20 note
Copper 5 sols issued by the Monneron Brothers
Copper advertising token for John Thornley, tea merchant
Copper cent token
Copper halfpenny token issued by the Carmarthen Iron Works
Copper halfpenny token issued by Thomas Spence
Copper halfpenny token of John Morse
Copper penny token issued by Sir Philip Gibbs (or Gibbes)
Copy of a gold stater of Philip II of Macedon
Countermarked silver abbasi coin of Shah Abbas II
Counterstamped gold koban
Cowrie shells
Cumberland and Carlisle Bank £5 note
Cupro-nickel 10,000 zlotych
Cupro-nickel 25 cent coin
Cut farthing of Edward 'the Confessor'
Dali yuanbao coin
Danish krone, Norwegian krone and Swedish krona coins
Dartmouth, £1 note
Deposit book, cheque book and bank card for the Bank of Hell
Didcot hoard
Dinar of Abdallah al-Musta'sim
Dinar of Sultan Al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars
Dinar of the Fatimid dynasty
Dinars of Toghril Beg and Malik Shah
Diploma of the Yixing Gongsi, or Patriotic Rising Society
Dirham of Kai Khosrau II
Double dirham of Nuh b. Mansur
Dr Johnson's touch-piece
Dundee Union Bank, £1 note
Edward VI coronation medal
Electrotype copy of gold 200 mohur of Shah Jahan
Electrum 1/6 stater
Electrum stater inscribed with the name of Phanes
Electrum stater with a seal
Equitable Labour Exchange note worth 10 hours work
Exchequer Bill for £100
Fatimid dinar and a Crusader besant
Forged £1 note of the Halifax Bank
Four gold ducats of the Sforza dukes of Milan
Fox, Fowler & Co. £5 note
Fragments of a stone mould and bronze knife money
General Claude-Auguste Court's book of coin rubbings
George Cruikshank, Bank Restriction Note, a satirical note
Gilt bronze medal of George IV by Benedetto Pistrucci
Gold 10 ryo oban
Gold 105 zecchini of Ludovico Manin, doge of Venice
Gold 20 yen coin
Gold 20,000 reis of João V, king of Portugal
Gold 4-excelentes of Ferdinand and Isabella and silver 4-reales of Charles and Joanna
Gold 5 unites of King Charles I ('Juxon Medal'), probably from dies engraved by Abraham Vande
Gold ashrafi coin of Fath cAli Shah
Gold ashrafi coin of Süleyman the Magnificent
Gold augustale of Emperor Frederick II, as king of Sicily
Gold aurei of Nero
Gold aurei with portraits of the young Faustina II
Gold aureus consecration coin of Septimius Severus
Gold aureus of Aurelian
Gold aureus of emperor Caligula
Gold aureus of emperor Claudius
Gold aureus of emperor Marcus Aurelius, set in a gold ring
Gold aureus of Octavian
Gold aureus showing Trajan's Column
Gold aureus with a facing portrait of Postumus
Gold bars with assayers' stamps
Gold coin in the name of Tincomarus
Gold coins and ingots from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Gold croesid coin
Gold daric coin
Gold dinar coin
Gold dinar of Ardashir I
Gold dinar of caliph Abd al-Malik
Gold dinar of Harun al-Rashid
Gold dinar with a standing caliph
Gold dinara coin of Kumaragupta I
Gold dinara coin of Kumaragupta I
Gold dobla de cabez coin of Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile
Gold duit of the Dutch East India Company
Gold florin of Edward III of England
Gold franc-à-cheval of John II, king of France
Gold heaume of Louis II, count of Flanders
Gold hyperperon of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus
Gold imitation dinar of Offa
Gold imitation of a Byzantine coin found in China
Gold mancus of Coenwulf
Gold mancus of Ethelred II
Gold mas or tahil ingot
Gold medal of Admiral George Anson: defeat of the French at Finisterre, by Thomas Pingo
Gold medal of Captain James Cook, by Lewis Pingo
Gold medal of Henry VIII as Head of the Church of England
Gold medal of Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, by Heinrich Küchler
Gold medallic portugalöser (10 ducats)
Gold medallion of Claudius II
Gold medallion of Constantius I Chlorus
Gold medallion of Diocletian
Gold medallion showing Constantine the Great at prayer
Gold mohur (coin) of Shah Jahangir, with his portrait
Gold mohur of Jahangir
Gold mohur of Jahangir with a portrait of his father Akbar
Gold morabitino of Alfonso VIII
Gold morabitino of Sancho I, king of Portugal
Gold octadrachm of Ptolemy II
Gold pagoda
Gold pavillon of Edward the Black Prince, as Prince of Aquitaine
Gold pavillon of Philip VI
Gold pendant with designs copied from a Kushan coin and a Roman coin
Gold quarter dinar and a tari of Roger II
Gold Ramatanka charm
Gold S.Thome of João III, king of Portugal
Gold S.Vincente of João III, king of Portugal
Gold saluto of Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples and Sicily
Gold solidus of Charlemagne
Gold solidus of Empress Irene
Gold solidus of Justinian I
Gold solidus of Magnus Maximus
Gold solidus of Theodobert I
Gold sovereign of George III
Gold stater ('Gallo-Belgic A' type)
Gold stater in the name of Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Gold stater of Hormizd (I) Kushanshah
Gold tanka of Sultan Qutb al-Din Mubarak Shah I
Gold tremissis (shilling) of Eadbald of Kent
Gold unicorn of James III, king of Scotland
Great Ming Circulating Treasure Note
Great Qing Treasure Certificate
Haedong t'ongbo coin
Handwritten cheque for an account with Abraham Fowler, goldsmith
Hansatsu (clan note) for 1 momme of silver
Hoard of gold coins and scrap gold
Home-made red money envelopes
Hundi (Indian bill of exchange)
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Nicholas Sloan, Terror.Virtue, a cast bronze medal
Industrial Workers of the World badge
Iron coin die of William I
Jules Feiffer, 2 button badges: We are all prisoners of war, and They lie
Larin of Shah Tahmasp
Lead weight with coin of Ethelred I
Love token
Lucky red envelope containing a Hong Kong 1 cent note
Maria Theresa thaler
Marine Midland Bank credit card
Medal of St Christopher
Medals of the kings and queens of England by Jean Dassier
Money box in the shape of a television
Money envelope with an illustration of ancient money
Money envelope with an illustration of traditional money
Multiple dinar of Muhammad bin Sam
Natasha Ratcliffe, The Black Spot, cast bronze medal
Nickel 20 franc coin
'Not in my Name' anti-war badge
Nummus of Diocletian
Obverse die, puncheon for bust and silver crown of the Old Pretender as James III
Offerings from Wanborough Roman temple
One riyal coin of King Faisal of Iraq and a 100 fils coin of Kuwait
Penny defaced by suffragettes
Pewter medal of the storming of the Bastille and the Return of Louis XVI to Paris, by Bertrand Andrieu
Pink triangle badge
Platinum 12 rubles of Tsar Nicholas I
Pollyanna club badge
Portable ivory balance with brass pan and weight
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, a bronze medal after Hans Schwarz
Pre-and post-democracy banknotes
Presidential campaign badge of Horatio Seymour
Primrose League badge
Printed money envelope
Printed money envelope
Printed money envelope
Printed money envelope
Prototype 20 euro note
Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee commemorative £5 coin
Queen Victoria's Jubilee souvenir badge
Red money envelope
Roman coins reused as weights in an Anglo-Saxon balance
Round silver halfpenny of Henry I
Sandinista National Liberation Front badge
Season Ticket for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Sequin of Mahmud I
Set of seven coins commemorating the return of Hong Kong from Britain to China
Sikh temple token
Silver ½ rupee of the British East India Company, struck in the name of William and Mary
Silver ⅓ stater of Zancle
Silver 1 tical or baht of Ang Duong
Silver 2 franc coin of Napoleon I
Silver 2 reales coin of Philip V, mutilated for use in Dominica as 2 bitts
Silver 3 florins of the Revolt of the Austrian Netherlands
Silver 4-thalers of Christian Ludwig, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Silver 5 baht
Silver 5 mark coin
Silver 5 talers of Julius, duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
Silver 50 reales of Philip III of Spain
Silver 8 reales coin with chopmarks
Silver 8 reales counterstamped as 5 shillings, with a hole
Silver 8 reales of the Republic of Peru, countermarked in Manila
Silver 8-reales of the Mexican Republic with Chinese chopmarks
Silver Abbasi coin of the Safavid Dynasty
Silver argenteus of Constantine the Great
Silver bar ingot
Silver bracteate pfennig of Wichmann von Seeburg, archbishop of Magdeburg
Silver cistophorus of Augustus
Silver cistophorus of Augustus
Silver cistophorus of Claudius
Silver cistophorus of Mark Antony
Silver coin
Silver coin hoard from Appledore
Silver coin of Athelstan
Silver coin of Cynethryth, wife of Offa of Mercia
Silver coin of Cyrene
Silver coin of Gautamiputra Satakarni
Silver coin of Hormizd IV
Silver decadrachm
Silver decadrachm of Alexander the Great
Silver decadrachm of Syracuse
Silver decadrachm of Syracuse
Silver denarii of the Roman Social War
Silver denarius of Augustus
Silver denarius of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
Silver denarius of Marcus Junius Brutus
Silver denarius showing Juno Moneta
Silver didrachm with wolf and twins design
Silver dinar of the Alchon Huns
Silver dirham coin
Silver dirham coin
Silver dirham of al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf
Silver dirham of Saladin
Silver dollar note issued by the Hu-peh Government Mint
Silver double shekel of Carthage
Silver drachm of Khosrau II
Silver dramma coin
Silver farthing of Henry III, Short Cross coinage, made by the moneyer Terri
Silver frosted bronze medal of St. Thomas's Hospital, by William Wyon: The Cheselden Medal
Silver hoard from Goldsborough
Silver ingot
Silver ingot weighing 50 ounces
Silver Joachimsthaler of Stephen, count of Schlik
Silver karshapana of the Mauryan Empire
Silver 'Lima' crown (5 shillings) of George II
Silver medal of Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon
Silver medal of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Battle of Waterloo, by Emile Rogat
Silver medal of the Execution of Marie Antoinette, by Heinrich Conrad Küchler
Silver medallion
Silver pagoda of the East India Company
Silver pattern crown (5 shillings) of Oliver Cromwell
Silver pattern crown of Charles II, by Thomas Simon (about 1623-65)
Silver pennies from the Woodham Walter hoard
Silver pennies of Ethelred II
Silver penny of Alfred the Great
Silver penny of Anlaf Guthfrithsson
Silver penny of Charles II, 'the Bald'
Silver penny of Cnut (Canute)
Silver penny of David I of Scotland
Silver penny of Edgar
Silver penny of Edward 'the Elder'
Silver penny of Eric Bloodaxe
Silver penny of Ethelred II
Silver penny of Henry, Earl of Northumberland
Silver penny of Louis I 'the Pious'
Silver penny of Matilda
Silver penny of Otto III and Adelheid
Silver penny of Sven Estridsen
Silver pfennig of Agnes II von Meissen, abbess of Quedlinburg
Silver piastra of Pope Clement X
Silver 'Pine Tree' shilling of Massachusetts
Silver radiate coins with Roman Legionary badges: Pegasus and Capricorn
Silver riksdaler of Christina, queen of Sweden
Silver ruble of Peter I
Silver rupee of Charles II
Silver rupee of Sa'adat, nawab of Oudh
Silver rupee of the East India Company
Silver ryal of Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland, and Darnley
Silver 'Samantadeva' drachm of the Shahi dynasty
Silver schaumünze of Sigismund III von Schrattenbach, archbishop of Salzburg
Silver schraubthaler ('box thaler') of Leopold, archduke of Tyrol
Silver scudo of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as Duke of Milan, attributed to Leone Leoni
Silver shekel of the First Jewish Revolt from Rome
Silver shekel of the Second Jewish Revolt from Rome
Silver shilling
Silver siege money of the English Civil Wars
Silver stater of Evagoras
Silver stater, with a turtle
Silver sterbetaler of Sophia, Electress of Hanover
Silver sterbethaler ('death thaler') of Sybilla Ursula, duchess of Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg
Silver tanka coin of Shiva Simha
Silver tanka of Muhammad b. Sam, sultan of Delhi
Silver tanka of Nitichandra, King of Arakan
Silver tanka of the Pyu kings
Silver tetradrachm of Agathocles
Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great
Silver tetradrachm of Artaxerxes III
Silver tetradrachm of Athens
Silver tetradrachm of Augustus
Silver tetradrachm of Azes I
Silver tetradrachm of Demetrius Poliorcetes
Silver tetradrachm of Eretria
Silver tetradrachm of Lysimachus
Silver tetradrachm of Mithradates I
Silver tetradrachm of Orophernes
Silver tetradrachm of Seleucus I
Silver trade dollar
Silver tridrachm of Gaius Caligula
Silver vereinsthaler coin
Silver Wado tsuho coin
'Smiley' badge
Spanish 8 reales silver coin countermarked as 5 shillings
Specimen 1000 sucres note
Steel 20 cedis coin showing a cowrie shell
Steel dies for a silver crown of Queen Victoria
'Strike a light for Wales' badge
String of 800 cash
Strip of three Roman bronze coins (asses)
Struck bronze medal of Cosimo I de' Medici by Domenico Poggini
Struck gold medal for the recovery of George III by Lewis Pingo
Struck gold medal of Charles II by John Roettier: the Increase of the Navy
Struck gold medal of James I of England (VI of Scotland) by Nicholas Hilliard
Struck silver military award for the Battle of Dunbar by Thomas Simon
The el-Amarna Hoard
The Fishpool hoard
The pot-hoard from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
Three gold coins
Tibetan Buddhist badge
'Tin hat' money, worth 4 cents
Tin ingot in the form of a cockerel
Tin pattern for a silver dollar
Treasure of the Salcombe Cannon Site
Trial striking of a silver 1 baht of Rama IV Mongkut
Two 50 rial banknotes
Uhlhorn Press advertising token
Vita nuova: the criminal unlimited, cast bronze medal by Georgy Postnikov
Wedding charm in the form of a silver coin and ingot
Wuzhu coin issued by Emperor Xuandi
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