Johannesburg Money Museum Shows Region's History

Where else but Johannesburg, a city built on the back of a gold rush and home to Africa’s major stock exchange, would there be a monument to money?  The Museum of Money is in a building belonging to international banking group, Barclays, in the center of South Africa’s biggest metropolis. “The beauty of money is you’re dealing with items that have been used, and each coin has a history, it was in someone’s hand. It was used for something,” said Dr. Paul Bayliss, curator of the museum...

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