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	<title>Graham Iddon - Bank of Canada Museum - Musée de la Banque du Canada</title>
	<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca</link>
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	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:03:50 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>Love tokens: Change of heart</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/02/love-tokens-change-of-heart/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[For centuries, people have been adding alternative messages to coins as political protests, advertising, commemoration and—most charmingly—love and affection. Such things are called love tokens.]]></description>
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		<title>Three 50-cent pieces: The big changes to our small change</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2026/01/three-50-cent-pieces-the-big-changes-to-our-small-change/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The maple leaves, beavers, schooners and caribous appear unchanged every year on our regular issued coins. But the 50-cent piece is a different story, because every time our coat of arms has changed, so has the coin.]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever happened to the penny?  A history of our one-cent coin.</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/08/whatever-happened-to-the-penny-a-history-of-our-one-cent-coin/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of the penny as the basic denomination of an entire currency system has been with Canadians for as long as there has been a Canada. But the one-cent piece itself has been gone since 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Good as gold? A simple explanation of the gold standard</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/08/good-as-gold-a-simple-explanation-of-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In an ideal gold standard monetary system, every piece of paper currency represents an amount of gold held by an authority. But in practice, the gold standard system’s rules were extremely and repeatedly bent in the face of economic realities.]]></description>
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		<title>Speculating on the piggy bank</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/05/speculating-on-the-piggy-bank/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the first currencies allowed us to store value, we’ve needed a special place to store those shekels, drachmae and pennies. And the piggy bank—whether in pig form or not—has nearly always been there.]]></description>
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		<title>Money’s metaphors</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2025/02/moneys-metaphors/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Buck, broke, greenback, loonie, toonie, dough, flush, gravy train, born with a silver spoon in your mouth… No matter how common the expression for money, many of us haven’t the faintest idea where these terms come from.]]></description>
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		<title>Rai: big money</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2024/07/rai-big-money/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[An item is said to have cultural value when it can be directly associated with the history, people, beliefs or rituals important to a society. It’s the same with a rai—its value can be greater depending upon who authorized it, who carved it and who subsequently owned it.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Great Depression</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2024/04/lessons-from-the-great-depression/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[What the stock market crash of 1929 did was starkly reveal the weaknesses of economic systems that had evolved from the unregulated capitalism of the late 19th century.]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding cryptocurrencies</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2023/11/understanding-cryptocurrencies/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are aware of them, but how much do we really understand about cryptocurrencies?]]></description>
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		<title>The Scenes of Canada series $100 bill</title>
		<link>https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2023/07/the-scenes-of-canada-series-100-bill/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Few of us ever get a chance to see a Scenes of Canada $100 bill. Which is a pity, because it is an example of great bank note design with even greater imagery by a master engraver.]]></description>
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