Money Museums Worldwide - Australia to the Vatican, Greece and Italy, and Singapore

Banknote and coin museums worldwide include those which are in:

Australia: Sydney; Perth; Royal Australian Mint.
Belgium: Bank of Belgium Museum, Brussels. All you want to know about the Euro.
Canada: Bank of Canada Museum, Ottowa. 'Decoding e-money,' they say.
https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca
Greece: Corfu Banknote Museum.
Italy; Bank of Italy Money Museum, Rome.
https://www.bancaditalia.it/servizi-cittadino/musei-collezioni/museo-moneta/index.html?com.dotmarketing.htmlpage.language=1
Capital Coin Museum, Rome.
http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/?p=133
Switzerland: Zurich Money Museum.
Thailand: Bank of Thailand Museum.
The Vatican:

Other collections are in national museums.

SINGAPORE
I also visited The Mint Museum in Singapore and wrote about it for The British Asosciation magazine.

I remember seeing at the entrance one of the first coins, a huge stone with a hole in the middle, too heavy to carry (like later heavy gold bars).

According to the museum website, it is currently closed and in the process of moving to a new location.

I look forward to seeing it has opened again. So much more to add. Now we have online banking and bitcoins. Some places won't take cash. However, others won't take credit cards and insist on notes or coins. Where can you learn more.

Singapore has dollars, not to be confused with American dollars.
If you see the letter S adjacent to the dollar sign it means Singapore dollars.

You can buy special coins and read about coins here:

https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeCoinsAndNotesMuseum

A roundup of money museums is here:
https://www.capitalgoldgroup.com/blog/numismatic-museums/

Visit Singapore

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www.visitsingapore.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker.
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Three prices on goods and souvenirs! Why?

Sometimes you see two or three prices on goods. What are they? Maybe euros and pounds sterling. If one is crossed out the other one is the discount price. In England, in some shops like Office World, one price may be with VAT, the other without it.

In London cafés the price may be for eat in and take away. What's really annoying is if the price is market for eat in when you queue up to buy food to take away.

Ah, says the sales person. This price is in dollars, this one is British sterling pounds, and the last is in the money used in our country.

In Singapore, one price is in American dollars, the other in Singapore dollars, with the capital S in front of the dollars, S$.

Three Prices In Morocco
I was on honeymoon in Morocco looking at the rugs and racks of souvenir leather pouffes.  A salesman reached his 'best price' and would not reduced it. He showed me three prices marked on the leather pouffe I wanted. The highest price, he said was for Americans, the second price was for British tourists, the third, last price was for local people. He argued that once we reached the last price he could not go any lower.

Afterwards I wondered whether he had two sets of bags, with two sets of triple prices.

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.