Collections

Who likes money?

We do, and lots of it. And here is the place to see it. This is your window to our enormous collection of currency and currency-related artifacts. At this time, the collection count has gone over 120,000 items and includes the world’s most complete collection of Canadian currency. You won’t be able to access it all yet, but every week we are adding images and fascinating artifact histories as quickly as our longsuffering photographers and curators can produce them. You will also be able to find academic articles and research here, written and assembled by our highly informed Collections team.

About the Collection

Learn about the history of the National Currency Collection, explore some highlights and search our database.

Search the Collection

Looking for specific items in our Collection? Here you will be able to access all of the items in our Collection that have been digitized so far.

Complete Bank Note Series

This is the Bank of Canada’s portfolio. We’re very proud of it. Every denomination from every series on up to today can be found here.

Legal tender status

Find out what removing legal tender status means and which bank notes are affected.