Enter the Virtual Money Museum to learn about the story of money in the United States by following the links below.

Primitive Monies, Ancient Coins, American Colonial Commodity Monies
• Primitive Money
• Coins of Early Origin
• Barter in Colonial America
• Yap Stone

• Colonial Coin and Currency
• Continental Currency
• Symbols of a Determined People
• The New Nation
• The First United States Mint
• The First Bank of the United States
• Early Banking Systems, 1811-1860
• 19th Century Coinage
• U.S. Currency, 1861-1865
• Postwar Problems and Progress, 1865-1912
• The Federal Reserve System
• Small-Sized Currency
• 20th Century Coinage

Paper Money of Virginia

Currency of the Confederacy 1861-1865

United States Commemorative Coins

Large-Denomination Currency

Artifacts of the Production of Money

The Making of Currency and Coin

Counterfeit Exhibit

Precious Metals

Gold Bar