Description of the attraction
The Museum of Money is the brainchild of the National Bank of Ukraine, which has managed to pick up an interesting collection of samples of banknotes that have been used on the territory of Ukraine from ancient times to the present day. The National Bank has been collecting this collection since its inception, using both archaeological finds and gifts made to bank employees during their travels.
Here you can find both the very first money in the form of arrowheads and shells, which were used in the Bronze Age, and money that circulated in the Greek colonial cities of the Northern Black Sea region. However, the greatest interest is aroused by the first coins minted by the princes of Kievan Rus, since some of them, for example, the gold coins of Prince Vladimir the Great, exist in only eleven copies.
Not without the ancient Russian hryvnia, which gave the name to the modern Ukrainian currency. There is also a foreign currency in the Museum of Money, which was also used for settlements on the territory of modern Ukraine, for example, Arab dirhams, from which necklaces were often made. As entertainment with an educational bias, the Museum of Money has a device for minting coins: every visitor can try himself in the role of an employee of the mint, having independently minted a commemorative coin.
The 200 euro bills presented in the Museum of Money are extremely interesting, which is explained by their origin - they are fake, made by Kulibins from Nikolaev. Moreover, the level of counterfeiting turned out to be so high that it is possible to distinguish the bills from the real ones only with the help of special equipment.
