Recruitment poster, Coldstream GuardsRecruitment poster, Smart Men Wanted for the Coldstream Guards, showing rates of pay, with Windsor Castle in the background Date: 1923
Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note
Five pound note issued by the Bank of England
Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealthTsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings
London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s
National coal strike - demands of miners 1912National coal strike, to secure a minimum wage that lasted from February to early April 1912. This table shows how the wages differ per day in Great Britain and Ireland during 1910, of boys, youths
Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620, by Hendrick AvercampHendrick Avercamp (1585-1634). Dutch painter. Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620. Rijskmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands
Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USAGroup photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They were an African-American a cappella ensemble who toured
The Income Tax Official in Hades by H. M. BatemanA tax man from the Inland Revenue suffering his worst nightmare - locked in a cage suspended over a pile of cheques and money he cannot reach. Cartoon by H. M
1923 German HyperinflationA boy and men with a pile of useless Deutsch mark banknotes as hyperinflation hits Germany in 1923
Cans of Spam 1940SCanned Spam luncheon meat, priced at 1 4D (one shilling and four pence in old money), on a shelf in a grocery store
British Bank NotesA One Pound and a Ten Shillings note issued following a moratorium announced by the Government at the outbreak of World War One
Someone Drops a Sixpence Near Somerset House - HM BatemanH.M. Bateman had a particular loathing for the taxman as exemplified in this cartoon showing the inhabitants of Somerset House (then the home of the Inland Revenue)
Good jobs. Good money. Good times. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1973. Printed by Impress Limited, 1973
French poster, The Future Lies in SocialismA French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold
The Star Money - 1Die Sternthaler : the child gathers up the star money
Old Uk Money 1969A pile of " old" United Kindom currency, including pound notes shillings and copper coins before Decimalisation occurred on 15 February 1971
OLD ENGLISH COINSOld (pre-Decimalisation) British coins (left to right): Top - penny, half penny, threepenny bit. Bottom - half crown, two shillings, one shilling, sixpence - tails
Money / Stones / Yap 1885Two chiefs of Yap Island, western Caroline (Pacific) Islands with three huge perforated stones which were used as currency
Arabian-Byzantine coin. Coin. FRANCE. Paris. National Library
Share certificate for The Yukon GoldfieldsA share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush
Two businessmen and different business modelsThe Old Way. The New Way. Two businessmen and different business models and their success or failure. Giving credit or paying cash. Date: 1870
Suffragette selling badges Date: circa 1910s
Mental Cruelty by H. M. BatemanA banks customer struggles to control his reactions at seeing piles of money being handled by the staff behind the counter
Humanised turkey in the role of a bankerA humanised turkey dressed in a suit, cast in the role of a fat banker, surrounded by bags of money
Pearly King / CollectionA pearly King collects money for charity from a group of women enjoying a picnic
Charity BootblacksTo raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London
Metric SystemApplications of the metric system to dimensions, weight and money
Thomas Newton, Butcher
Bank of England / DividendDividend Day at The Bank of England
Advertisement for National Savings -- your savings soon mount up -- showing a plane soaring above the countryside
Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USANorthern Trust Company Bank, La Salle and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1900s
Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank - 1 Cheapside, London. In setting up the bank, Thomas Farrow wished not only that unsuspecting people in need of money to tide them over a period of temporary
French poster for the Socialist Party (SFIO)A French poster for the Socialist Party SFIO (French Section of the Workers International), showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to a degenerate capitalist kneeling down to
Poster, Back the Great Attack with War Savings, showing WW2 soldiers running across a beach. 1940s
One Million German Mark banknote - 1923 - testament to the hyperinflation experienced by the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. Date: 1923
Official wording, Apprenticeship IndentureOfficial wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited
Poster advertising Post Office Savings BankPoster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank -- money is power. Showing two tall smoking chimneys, possibly of Battersea Power Station. 20th century
Queen Alexandra and Empress Marie, Maundy ThursdayQueen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her sister Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), leaving the Maundy Thursday distribution ceremony at Westminster Abbey
Cover design, Dombey and SonCover design, Part XI of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, August 1847, with illustrations by Hablot K Browne. 1847
Native of Yap carrying stone moneyA native man from Yap wearing a mangrove wood comb in his hair (a sign of high rank) carrying stone money on a pole over his shoulder. Date: 1937
WW2 Poster -- Don t Waver, Help WavellDont Waver, Help Wavell. En---ds War Weapons Week, 17-24 May 1940. War saving photolithographic poster, published by The National Savings Committee, London, The Scottish Savings Committee
Copper MouldsCopper jelly and cream moulds - the more elaborate cost as much as 18 shillings, a great deal of money in those days, 30 or more in year 2000 term"
Founding of the Bank of England - proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England was formed with Sir John Houblon as its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall. Date: 1694
Street scene in Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America, showing the Hotel Ingles, the Hotel Colon (named after Columbus), the Money Exchange and the American Saloon. Date: 1910s
Bank of England Beadle, City of London. 1899
Japan, Imperial Mint, Osaka - Rolling Mills, Cutting PressesJapan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - Rolling Mills, and the Cutting-out Presses. Date: circa 1910s
100 and 50 drachmas bills, Greece. Coin