This object is a French assignat, a currency printed by the National Assembly in the late 18th century during the French Revolution. One of the…
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The parceling out of the African continent by European nations is in part told through this object. This bill is an example of a French…
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This portrait, the only one of its kind, portrays a shift to modernity. The subject is Running Antelope, a Native American chief of the Hunkpapa…
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In societies without an exclusive national currency such as the Pre-Civil War United States, individuals choose whether to trust a currency according to their social…
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Hard Times tokens, like the one pictured, are remarkable for their representation of the economic crisis following the collapse of the Second Bank as well…
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The Bills of Exchange from the Compagnie des Indes [French East India Company], 1787 is a significant historical artifact of the late 18th century that…
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This coin (MH 2004.13.527) belongs to a revolutionary period of monetary history and speaks to a moment of declining royal authority in the late 9th…
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The Denarius of Julia Domna coin shown below was minted under Septimus Severus of the imperial Roman Empire. It is estimated to have been minted…
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Originally minted between 161 and 176 CE, the silver Denarius of Faustina the Younger is not a particularly rare coin; if anything, the banality of…
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