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Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.

William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.

Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.

Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.

An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.

A large pink condom beside a smaller coin bearing the letters '1/2 Fr. 1987' and the message in German 'Much protection for little cash'; one of a series of posters from the Stop AIDS campaign by AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.

Two actors performing on an open-air stage, perhaps selling medicines (?); St. Pauls cathedral is visible in the background. Engraving by J. van der Gucht.

For patients with pain Paramol-118 especially pain of musculoskeletal origin : money and the British.

Printing: three-quarter view and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.

The universal merchant, in theory and practice: improved and enlarged by W.J. Alldridge, assayer of metals, and author of The goldsmith's repository.

A caveat against injustice, or An enquiry into the evil consequences of a fluctuating medium of exchange, wherein is considered, whether the bills of credit on the neighboring governments, are a legal tender in payments of money, in the colony of Connecticut, for debts due by book, and otherwise, where the contract mentions only old-tenor money. By Philoeunomos.

The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Printing: section and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production (above), steam-engine (below). Engraving by J. Pass.

Jesus calls Matthew from among the tax officials. Woodcut, 16th century.

[25 Øre note (onboard currency) as used on the hospital ship, Jutlandia during the Korean War].

Payable to the bearer on demand one hundred birr / National Bank of Ethiopia.

French revolutionary bank note of fifty sols, with allegorical figures of liberty and justice. Engraving by N.M. Gatteaux, 179-.

100 ett hundra kronor : Carl von Linné 1707-1778 / Sveriges Riksbank.

Edward "Weary" Dunlop: portrait with barbed wire surround. Bas relief on coin, 1995.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

Medical societies ephemera. Box 3.

British ten pound note including the portrait of Florence Nightingale. Engraving by H.N. Eccleston, ca. 1989.

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100 ett hundra kronor : Carl von Linné 1707-1778 / Sveriges Riksbank.

Edward "Weary" Dunlop: portrait with barbed wire surround. Bas relief on coin, 1995.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

Medical societies ephemera. Box 3.

British ten pound note including the portrait of Florence Nightingale. Engraving by H.N. Eccleston, ca. 1989.