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Wall-Street.com Quiz - Coins, Mints and Treasuries
Around the World and Throughout History

Can You Identify These Pictures?

What does a shekel look like? A drachma? Pieces of eight? See if you can spot them, below.

The term "treasury" has a very loose interpretation on this page. When I searched for "treasuries", I found that collections of king's belongings (located in tombs, museums, etc.) were classified as national treasuries. Upon reflection I realized that at one time a king or emperor was, indeed, the guardian of the national treasury and his palace the equivalent of Fort Knox.

Belgian Coin
Viking Coin
Brazilian Coin
1.
China Mint
2.
British 10 Pence
Tudor Coin
Ancient Persian Coin
3.
Flattening A Gold Bar
4.
Finnish Coin
10 Peso Mexican Coin
1252 Gold Florin
5.

Hanibal and Elephant
Russia 1776 Imperial Catherine
East India Rupee
6.
Berlin Royal Treasury
7.
1814 Napoleonic Lire
1862 Ruble
Anglo Saxon Coin
8.
Nepalese Treasury
9.

First US Mint
10.
Drachma
Venetian Ducat
Henri IV France
10.
1990 English Mint
12.

Greek Coin
Old Cambodian Coin
16th Century China Coin
13.
Constantinople Treasury
14.
German Coin
1776 American Coin
Monaco Coin
15.
Kremlin Palace Treasury
16.
Phillip II of Macedonia
Piece of 8
Polish Coin
17.

Wall St. Old Sub-Treasury
18.
Yen Side One
Yen Side Twp
Queen Christina of Sweden 1600s
19.
York Coin
Vietnamese Coin
Theodoric Coin
20.
Paris Mint
21.

Display at Worlds Fair
22.
Inside A Vault
23.
Treasury of Atreus
24.

South African CoinRoman CoinNew Zealand CoinMexican CoinHead of CharlemagneHead of Perseus1150 Jerusalem, Amorium IHead of Simon Bolivar1900 French 100 FrancsMedieval French CoinShekel25.

Mints at First and Philadelphia
26.
Numbering and Sealing Press
27.