Currency Museum
Currency Museum housed in the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), located in the Diplomatic Area of Manama. The history of a country is often best represented in the evolution of its money. Never was this truer than when delving into the history and monies of Bahrain as so clearly demonstrated in the recent opening, to world wide acclaim, of Bahrain's currency museum. Some four years in the making, the museum opened in February 1999 and has attracted a stream of visitors ever since. Visitors are led through a multi-media tour of the currency history of Bahrain demonstrating the central role it has played throughout the history of the Persian Gulf. Some of the rarest coins in the Arab world are to be found in the museum.
In addition to its coin and Bahraini banknotes in the museum a new permanent stand of the first banknotes and coins issued by the central banks of all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries has been added.
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