China's coins enjoy a time-honored history with a unique way of their development, forming coin culture with Oriental characteristics. Various kinds of coins are handed down from the past few thousand years. In terms of variety, there are ancient coins, gold coins, silver coins, copper coins, and paper currency. In terms of design, there are shapes of a knife, a spade, a square hole, and machine-made coins as well as beautifully made paper money. In terms of material, there are gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and paper. In a word, Chinese coins contain rich cultural contents. Coins made and distributed in ancient Zhejiang, like those available in the Southern Song capital and in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Qing Dynasty, embody their own features.
　　The lasting feudal rule slows down development of metal coins. Copper coins counted and gold or silver weighed, all current by their own values without difference of standard currency and factional currency.
　　Paper currency is invented in China. It appears as a result of commercial credit prosperity. Credit business of ancient time gives priority to debit, credit and exchange, taking on perform of finance as far as its property and business range are concerned.
　　After the Opium War, foreign financial force began to intrude and paint feudalism of China in colonial color, resulting in greatest intricacy and disorder of currency financial history of late Qing Dynasty. Through experiencing several currency reform of Qing Government, Beiyang Government and Kuomintang Government, it can not get rid of its property of semi-colony and semi-feudal. While in 1949, the newly built P.R.China created the new era of currency and finance.
　　The Coin Hall displays coins of different era artistically to the audience on eight aspects of currency origin, practical currency, birth of metal mints, square holed round coins, and properties of ancient paper currency, credit and gold and silver currency, civil and governmental facilities, inflow of foreign silver coins, rise of machine made currency, banking and paper currency etc.