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In 1977, the Royal Canadian Mint wanted to reduce the size of the penny in response to the rising price of copper. Little did the Mint know that the Toronto Transit Commission’s reaction would force the cancellation of the program.

Onsite program: Travel to planet Plutopia on a trade mission with your students. Once there, you will see that trading goods without a common currency poses some serious problems. Trading Planets uses interactive, game-based learning to teach about trade, currency, and supply and demand.

Onsite program: How do you plan for the future when you don’t know what things will cost? Join the fight against inflation in Inflation Busters, a game-based program for students. Who knew learning about monetary policy could be fun? We did!

The printing firms’ design teams went to work and came back with a surprising result: vertical notes.

The life expectancy of a two-dollar paper note was about a year. But coins can last for more than 10 years.

Successfully counterfeiting a bank note in the mid-19th century required an engraver with reasonably high talent and very low ethics.

Instead of bragging about our visitor statistics and the popularity our programming (both great!), we’ll talk about what’s coming up for early 2019.

As in any siege, Mafeking quickly began to run short of most things, not the least of which was cash.

The size of the 1-cent coin was reduced to save on the cost of copper. At the same time, there were proposals to mint Canadian coins out of cheap and abundant nickel.

In Canada playing cards were used as form of emergency money at a time when the colony constantly suffered from a shortage gold and silver coins.