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The museums in the capital

November 17, 2013
The Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada

Your little collectors will be delighted to see this collection of more than 100 000 items such as bank notes, coins, tokens, bills, gold bars and everything that was ever used in trades. They will hold 99.99% pure gold, and they will understand how Canadian money is made. They will also see the evolution of counterfeiting and extreme measures that were sometimes taken to counter it. Free.

Contact: 245, Sparks Street (between Bank and Kent) Ottawa, Ontario, 613-782-8914

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