House of Coins Museum - Bogota, Colombia

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HOUSE of COINS MUSEUM Bogota, Colombia

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The Coin Museum is definitely one of Bogota's best, most original museums. Here's a quick overview tour of just some of what's in store for visitors.

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HOUSE of COINS MUSEUM

Bogota, Colombia

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During the Colonial Period of Colombia and other developing

regions, a way of exchanging value in trading needed to be established

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Barter and Gold were soon widely accepted

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Bags of gold dust or gold nuggets were difficult to

measure and not precise in size or weight …

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… so small stamped ingots or coins were produced to make

controlling the weight or amount easier to

disperse when trading

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an early period stamped gold coin

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As coin minting presses became larger …

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… with more precise minting dies and …

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… greater sophistication …

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… likewise, coins became more sophisticated with standardized text and images denoting their origin, weight and the government they represented

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Coin minting die design from 1762

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Coin minting presses continued to evolve …

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… becoming larger, faster, more powerful and more spophisticated with passing decades

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Governments produced standardized weights to verify coin shipment quantity. This is a 12.5 kilogram weight from 1629 Spain

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For transporting large amounts of gold and metal coins aboard ships or across land, the three-lock strong box was invented for safe keeping. Each key was held by a different person so no one person could open the box

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Alonso Turrillo de Yerba, Army Captain, engineer, and financier was one such person so entrusted by the Spanish government

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Even more sophisticated safes developed in the 1800s

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By the mid-1800s to early 1900s, safes featured multiple combination locks, and all metal, fire proof construction for storing gold, stamped coins and the dies used to produce them.

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Now you can relax in the Coin Museum courtyard

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To learn more, take the tour

Photos and presentation by: Prof. Larry M. Lynch [email protected]