Coin Rejector

Napier's Light Coin Rejector allowed banks to quickly and efficiently weed out 'light' (underweight) gold coins. The light coins would be ejected out of the slit in the front of the box. These included counterfeits, and over-worn genuine coin.

Money, Money, Money

October 7th 2011
Was a reasonably nice day and after going for a walk I went to the Money Museum. It had a bit of history of money and how it evolved in Scotland and the world. It showed some examples of early paper money and how enterprising It shows a bit about how coins are struck, some ways that people attempted, and succeeded in making forgeries. The beginning of mechanisation made forgery more difficult sin ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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