The Museum Blog

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.

During the first international assembly of the Ligo in 1946, a decision was made to introduce a common world currency with an internationally stable value.