The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 2, January 12, 2003, Article 12

MUSEUM OF FINANCIAL HISTORY

  Joel Orosz points out "an interesting article on a little-known
  museum with significant numismatic content."   The article by
  Ralph Blumenthal titled "Museum Explores Capitalism's Feats
  and Follies" was published January 6, 2003.  Here's an
  excerpt.  To access the full article, see the link below.

  "What would John D. Rockefeller say?

  In the basement of his Standard Oil Building, just steps from
  Wall Street, where the Museum of American Financial History
  celebrates the wonders of capitalism, an exhibit wall is papered
  with gaily colored stock certificates carrying names like Enron,
  WorldCom and ImClone Systems.

  It's the dark side of the American dream. But the dot-com
  debacles and infamous bankruptcies of the infant millennium
  are as much part of the nation's financial heritage as scandals
  of the past and the stock market crash of 1929, says the
  museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

  Exhibits about that Black October Friday that ushered in the
  Great Depression, and accouterments like the plunging ticker
  tape record, have long been the biggest draw of this low-profile
  and literally underground museum, in its 15th year at 28
  Broadway, where Rockefeller first moved into a smaller
  building in 1883, on same the site where Alexander Hamilton's
  law office once stood."

  "The stock certificates are on display until Feb. 28. Other ]
  exhibits now at the museum include one of the four remaining
  largest bills ever issued by the United States: a $100,000 gold
  note issued in 1934 and depicting Woodrow Wilson.  It was
  used for monetary transfers between Federal Reserve banks."

  "Another exhibit displays an exquisite palette of high-
  denomination bills issued by other countries during periods
  of runaway inflation, including, from Germany between the
  world wars, a trillion-mark note."

  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/06/arts/design/06MUSE.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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