💡🐷 Keep the kids busy while teaching smart money habits! Build your own piggy bank with our free template. ✂️🎨 All you need is paper, scissors, tape and pencil crayons. Then fold, decorate and start saving! 👉 https://bit.ly/45rVN0t

#OTD in 1769, the Island of Saint John (Prince Edward Island today) became a separate colony from Nova Scotia. This 1790 note is an early treasury bill from the island for the sum of 2 shillings and 6 pence. It was circulating, legal tender. #TriviaTuesday

💰👀 No matter how much something costs to make, it’s only worth what people are willing to pay for it. Explore the concept of supply and demand on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/43zwc2B #SundayReading

🥛🚚 Back when milk was delivered to your door, it was more convenient to purchase tokens from your local dairy. You would then “buy” your milk with the token and the milkman, as they were then called, didn’t have to handle cash. #SaturdayArtifact

The UK briefly flirted with decimal currency in the 1840’s. An experimental coin was created, the florin, equalling 1/10th of a pound. But the whole plan proved too difficult and was shelved for more than 100 years! #FridayFunFact

#OTD in 1858, Sir William Herschel, a magistrate in India, made the first use of fingerprints for identification purposes. Our last penny has a fingerprint above the date. Unless made by somebody with registered prints, we’ve no idea whose it is. #TriviaTuesday

✨It’s a silvery weekend ✨ Joseph Patenaude was a jeweler from Nelson, BC who was a strong advocate of silver and the silver dollar. He stamped 1,000 1935 silver dollars to observe their circulation. This coin was stamped with newly made tools long after his retirement. #SaturdayArtifact

✨It’s a silvery weekend ✨ A Canadian🍁 silver dollar from a year when silver dollars weren’t issued? What? Only 3 were made. And now we have all of them—on display in the Museum.😲 Read “The 1911 Silver Dollar” on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3x9AHFb #SundayReading

Whether the sun shines or not this summer, your kids can grow their own flower while growing their savings. Make budgeting and saving fun with our at-home activity Growing Your Savings. 👉 https://bit.ly/3xMhiH8

✨It’s a golden weekend 💰🪙 Almost ten years before British Columbia joined confederation, it planned to mint its own gold coins. It did so to attempt to keep BC’s gold rush treasure from leaving the region. Read all about it on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/4eguvLM #SundayReading

✨ It’s a golden weekend 💰🪙 Some of the earliest British guineas were made of gold mined in, you guessed it, Guinea. It was imported into England in the 17th century by “The Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa.” #SaturdayArtifact

✨ It’s a golden weekend 💰🪙 The original design of the US $20 gold coin was directly influenced by then-President Teddy Roosevelt. He asked for coins of classical design and of such extreme depth that they each had to be struck several times and wouldn’t stack properly. #FridayFunFact

The Royal Canadian Numismatic Association’s annual conference begins today in Winnipeg. If you are there, come see our display of all sorts of Manitoba-related artifacts from the Museum’s collection. 👉 https://www.rcna.ca/2026/

Today is #BastilleDay #OTD in 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a notorious prison in Paris often used to hold political prisoners. It was actually slated for demolition but had great symbolic meaning. Louis’ head, which he lost in 1793, is on this coin. #TriviaTuesday

💵 Our exhibition #MoneyInTenQuestions is running now at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives. 📚✨ It makes learning about money and personal finance fun. Really—we’re not kidding! 👉 www.yarmouthcountymuseum.ca

Who says games can’t be used to grow #economic thinking? 🎲 Got bored kids on your hands? We discuss 14 games that stimulate kids’ mathematic, economic and finance brains on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3SX8tVl #SundayReading

St. George has been slaying dragons on gold British sovereign coins since 1817. On the early coins he was holding a broken spear, the point stuck in the dragon.🐉 Later versions gave him a sword.⚔️ #FridayFunFact

Hey #Ottawa, #OttawaBluesFest2026 starts today at LeBreton Flats.🎷🎶 Check out the schedule and enjoy. We don’t have any blues-themed artifacts, so here’s our own bluesfest. 😂 https://ottawabluesfest.ca/

Need something to keep little explorers busy? Set your kids up with an activity where they get to make a treasure chest and fill it with paper copies of doubloons and pieces of eight! 🏴‍☠️ Download the templates. 👉 https://bit.ly/44GfbDR

🍁Canada Day Week: A Penny a Day🪙✨ Our penny was never worth a penny—just a cent. But it used to mean a lot to us. Read a little history on the copper coins we said goodbye to more than a decade ago—on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3VaLh7g #SundayReading

🍁Canada Day Week: A Penny a Day🪙✨ Check out this pattern coin on the left, a test sample for the first government one-cent piece of the Province of #Canada. The design on the right is the official design that was in circulation until 1920. #SaturdayArtifact

🍁Canada Day Week: A Penny a Day🪙✨ The purple pitcher plant was on Newfoundland’s cent from 1865 to 1947. But the original wreath of pitchers was felt to be unnatural looking, so a very realistic version was created for the smaller coin of 1938. #FridayFunFact

🍁Canada Day Week: A Penny a Day🪙✨ Memento of a Derailment.🚂 After an 1897 train wreck in New Brunswick, some of the scattered cargo of 5.5 tonnes of pennies went missing—only to turn up later as hand-marked souvenirs of the event.😲

🍁 Canada Day Week: A Penny a Day 🪙✨ Coins were so hard to come by in 1830s #NovaScotia that even counterfeits of the unlawfully issued provincial government tokens freely circulated—including ones dated 1382! 😲

Hasn’t our 50-cent piece been the same since forever? 🤔 No, actually, and you don’t need to look that closely to find out. 👀 Our changing coat of arms and the coin that’s carried it since 1937—on the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/45htWiH #SundayReading

A Medieval Calculator.🧮 Jetons are not coins but tokens used to perform calculations on a counting table—much like an abacus. Jetons sometimes had religious or political references on them. #FridayFunFact

On June 29, join Bank of Canada Museum Assistant Curator Krista Broeckx for her virtual presentation, “Reconsidering Wampum in Numismatic Collections,” part of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association 2026 Convention. 7:00 p.m. ET. 🔗 https://www.rcna.ca/2026/OnlinePresentations-EN.pdf

#StJeanBaptisteDay🎉has been celebrated in Quebec in one way or another for 400 years. It was made a public event for patriotic celebration in 1834 and an official holiday in 1925.📜 Enjoy your day! 💙⚜️ #SaintJean

🥇🪙 Did you know Canada’s first Olympic coin program helped fund the 1976 Montréal Games—and launched artistic careers along the way?🎨 🔗Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4vl5d85

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