Temporary exhibition “From kerenka to sovznak: money and revolution” covers the period from 1914 to 1922. Within this short period of time WWI, revolution of 1917 and Civil war occurred. Money of course is in the limelight: approved samples, project drawings and proof banknotes (test print) of different monetary signs from the archive of JSC “Goznak”. Among them are unique objects which had never been displayed before. The exhibition works daily 10 a.m-8 p.m. until November 29th , 2017.

Friday, July 1, 2016, saw a ceremonial opening of the History of Money Exposition located in Anninskiy Cavalier of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, and Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, cut the band in front of the entrance to the exposition.

Many objects displayed in the Russian Money museum are demonstrated to the general public for the first time ever. Among them, there are projects of the imperial banknotes and sketches of the soviet banknotes; authentic punches for coin and medal minting of the 18th – 20th centuries; proof coins of the 1990s.

Very often coins were used as decorative elements of clothes, adornments and interior objects.

In the center of the History of Money Exposition, there is the “Million” installation. It is a composition consisting of one million coins with the face value of one rouble.

Unique big coins –  gold and silver commemorative coins with the weight of 5 kilograms each – are on display. They are the biggest and heaviest coins ever produced in Russia. They were struck at the Saint Petersburg Mint.