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London, England

Goldsmith's Garden

A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sculpture of Oliver Pollock

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

Kaunas, Lithuania

Banknote Building

Described as one of the Baltic region’s most daring and original construction projects.

Robin Hood's Bay, England

The R.N.L.I Fish

This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.

Podcast: Library of Mistakes

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team May 26, 2021

The Coining House

The first mechanized factory in Spain is also one of the most significant mints in the history of money.

Cochem, Germany

Bundesbank Bunker Cochem

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

Stockholm, Sweden

Gamla Riksbanken (The Old National Bank)

One of the world's first dedicated bank buildings in the world is now the oldest one.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Biatec Monument

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

Jáchymov, Czechia

Royal Mint Jáchymov Museum

Dedicated to the history of mining and minting in a region rich in silver and radium.

Salihli, Turkey

Sardis

These ruins once made up the capital of Lydia, which minted the oldest coins in the world.

Gold 20-stater of Eucratides I

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint)

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Savings Bank Subway Branch

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Kamakura, Japan

Zeniarai Benten Shrine

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

Chichibu, Japan

Wado Ruins

The birthplace of Japanese coinage.

For Sale: Royally Minted Coins, Decorated With Dinosaurs

It’s change 165 million years in the making.

Isaac Schultz February 20, 2020

Origin of Ginza Monument

This monument celebrates this shopping district's past history as a feudal silver mint.