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National Currency Collection built on 60 years of acquisitions
A rare set of 1862 British Columbia gilt pattern coins acquired by the museum in 2017 are considered among ‘Canada’s most celebrated coins,’ according to then-curator Paul Berry.
Since its humble beginnings in the late 1950s, the National Currency Collection (NCC) has acquired more than 130,000 economic artifacts from both private collections and institutional holdings. Today, the NCC’s material, which comes from around the world and spans four millennia, serves as the foundation for the Bank of Canada Museum. The museum displays about 1,400... Continue reading →