MUSEUM OF MONEY
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BERLIN, June 15. A Museum of Money, with more than 3000 exhibits covering a period of 4000 years, is to be openec! shortly at Kolster Chorin, a town to the west of Berlin. The money has been colleeted by Herr Georg Weineck, a former guide at the ri *lin Art Galleries. He will be the proprietor of the new museum whicli it is cliamed, will be One of the largest of its kind. Herr Weineck started eollecting various types of money when he was a schoolboy, exchanging his postage stamps for coins. When he later got work in Hamburg, he got into touch with the sailors of incoming ships. His collection eontains dog's eyeteeth used in New Guinea. letter paper with Bismarek's head as water mark used before the war in parts of Moharnmedan Sudan, fur-money from Nortji America, brasswire money from certain seetions of the Oongo, and money made of leather, glass, and porcelain. There is also money in his collection which was produced in Germany during the inflation period of 1923.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 152, 15 July 1937, Page 5
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