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Used extensively in the 19th century, this type of hand-operated press printed secure financial documents using the intaglio method.

How on earth did an “S” with a line or two through it come to represent a dollar? Any ideas? No? That’s OK, you’re in good company.

In 1977, the Royal Canadian Mint wanted to reduce the size of the penny in response to the rising price of copper. Little did the Mint know that the Toronto Transit Commission’s reaction would force the cancellation of the program.

Onsite program: Travel to planet Plutopia on a trade mission with your students. Once there, you will see that trading goods without a common currency poses some serious problems. Trading Planets uses interactive, game-based learning to teach about trade, currency, and supply and demand.

Onsite program: How do you plan for the future when you don’t know what things will cost? Join the fight against inflation in Inflation Busters, a game-based program for students. Who knew learning about monetary policy could be fun? We did!

The printing firms’ design teams went to work and came back with a surprising result: vertical notes.

The life expectancy of a two-dollar paper note was about a year. But coins can last for more than 10 years.

Successfully counterfeiting a bank note in the mid-19th century required an engraver with reasonably high talent and very low ethics.

Instead of bragging about our visitor statistics and the popularity our programming (both great!), we’ll talk about what’s coming up for early 2019.