History of Russia: “It’s Money That Tells History” Exhibition marking the Russian History Year is running in Stavropol

April 3, 2012 the Stavropol State Historical and Cultural Landscape Museum-Preserve, within the Year of Russian history, is opening "It’s Money That Tells History" exhibition. For the first time the museum’s numismatic collection is displayed in full.

More than two thousand monuments of currency - coins, banknotes, securities, coin medal - represent ancient history of the Russian state.

One of the pages in the history of money is treasures. The exhibition features some of them: a treasure of silver Kufic dirhams dated to the 7th – 8th centuries; a treasure of Russian copper 5-kopecks coins of the reign of Catherine II; a treasure of silver coins of the 19th century - from 5 kopecks to one ruble; a treasure of bank notes and bonds of 1898-1918 amounting to 30,000 rubles.

The exhibition includes the following sections:

1. The monuments of the ancient monetary of the 1st – 12th centuries.

2. Russian money of the 15th – 17th centuries.

3. Development of the monetary system and the appearance of paper money in Russia in the 18th century.

4. Money circulation in the 19th century, the last money of Imperial Russia.

5. Money of the two revolutions. 1917-1921.

6. Money of the Soviet state. 1922-1991.

7. Money of the new Russia. 1991-2012.