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	<title>Collection Highlights - Bank of Canada Museum - Musée de la Banque du Canada</title>
	<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca</link>
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		<title>5 Cents: Canada, 1943</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1962.0006.00168.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The beaver briefly disappeared from our nickel during World War II. So did the nickel typically used in minting the coin, a consequence of wartime rationing of the metal.]]></description>
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		<title>1 Cent, Framed: Canada, 1908</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1976.0009.00004.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In January of 1908, Countess Grey, wife of the Governor General, inaugurated the new Canadian branch plant of the Royal Mint by ceremonially striking a one-cent piece- the first produced in Canada.]]></description>
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		<title>$10 Bill, Bank of Montreal: Canada, 1859</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1973.0006.00011.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[As the nineteenth century advanced, measures taken to foil counterfeiters became increasingly sophisticated.]]></description>
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		<title>1 Cent Piece: Province of Canada, 1858</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1971.0227.00001.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1858 the Province of Canada (Québec and Ontario) officially bid farewell to the pounds and shillings of its British superiors, choosing a decimal base for its first coin issue.]]></description>
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		<title>$2 Bank Note, Farmer’s Bank of St. Johns: Canada, 1837</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1972.0077.00023.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Phantom banks were not banks but the brainchildren of shady characters who produced legitimate looking bank notes without any capital to back them up.]]></description>
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		<title>Shipwrecked Louis d’or: France, 1724</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1971.0112.00017.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Coins for New France were minted in France and shipped across the Atlantic.]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Card Money: New France, 1749</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1971.0007.00010.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1685, the garrisons of New France found themselves short of the French coinage needed to pay their soldiers. An ingenious solution was proposed: use playing cards as paper money.]]></description>
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		<title>10,000,000,000,000 Mark Note: Germany, 1924</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1966.0087.00134.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Allied Nations demanding reparation payments of billions in gold after the First World War, Germany very quickly slid into inflation.]]></description>
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		<title>1 Pound Mafeking Note: British Army, South Africa, 1900</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1966.0131.00664.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Boer War, the small British garrison town of Mafeking was besieged by the Boer Army for 31 weeks.]]></description>
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		<title>1 Kwan Note: China, circa 1368-1398</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/collection/artefact/view/1963.0048.00039.000</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an example of some of the earliest paper money. Like all early paper money, it was redeemable for hard currency or precious metal - in this case 1000 copper coins weighing around 3 kilograms.]]></description>
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