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  • Collection: Money Matters 4/20 - Money and justice

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Cast bronze medal. Above, hands holding bag of money. Below, hand holding single coin.
Inscription: “If I weren't poor, you wouldn't be rich."
Bomb with lit fuse

Inscriptions
Obverse: UND DER ARME SAGTE BLEICH WAR ICH NICHT ARM, WÄRST DU NICHT…

1 money changers.JPG
Christ driving the money changers from the temple. Interior of the Temple of Jerusalem with Christ beating a money changer with a whip made out of cords at centre, a man fallen over a table and and a tied lamb in foreground, a boy with a bird cage…

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Countermarked cupronickel coin. (whole)
Britannia, draped, seated right on shield, holding trident sloped to right in right hand and olive branch in right: head, helmeted, right. (reverse)
Head of Elizabeth II, crowned, right, portrait defaced by…

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to…

8 BBC monopoly.png
Defaced (painted) copper coin. (whole)
Head of Elizabeth II, laureate, right. (obverse)
Britannia, draped, seated right on shield, painted red; inscription painted over in for lines, in yellow: blue background. (reverse)

Inscriptions
Obverse:…

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Snuff or pill box made from reengraved copper alloy coin bent into concave and soldered to copper collar; detachable lid made from copper alloy coin bent into concave. (whole)
Britannia, draped, helmeted, seated right on shield, holding trident in…

9 harriet tubman.jpg
Paper banknote. (whole)
Portrait of Andrew Jackson at centre obliterated by ink overstamp portrait of Harriet Tubman; eagle in background to left, wings spread, head right; inscription to right: black, green and blue print on cream background.…

3 stock exchange.jpg
The title is engraved on the façade of a one-storied, flat-roofed building, decorated with pilasters. Beneath the design is engraved; 'An Historical, Emblematical, Patriotical, and Political Print, representing the English Balloon, or National Debt…

2 benevolent physician.jpg
The interior of a room showing no trace of actual poverty. The invalid, a man, fully dressed but wearing a nightcap, sits in an upholstered arm-chair by the fire. A little girl stands at his knee; at his side on a tray or table are two bowls and a…
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