Hi All, Perhaps this is not the forum to discuss the topic that I need help with. If that's true, please, someone direct me to where I could find an answer to my question. While researching my ancestral genealogy I read the ship manifests & notice that my forebearers came to America with various small amounts of money in hand. The manifests alway state $7, or $40 and such. US dollars? Where were the immigrants able to change money? My main question revolves around the coins actually used by my ancestors in their homeland. We are fortunate to have recently acquired a huge curio cabinet in which we are placing pictures, eyeglasses, prayer books, Na papers,and various items that came from Europe with our ancestors in the late 1800s & early 1900s. I thought it would be nice if I could also place a little pile of coins or paper money amongst the displayed items. BIG CONFUSION here. I've been perusing eBay for old coins. I'm no discerning coin collector. I just want to be as correct as I can be. in obtaining a few coins. My paternal grandmother's family immigrated from the area of Inowroclaw, Poland in 1902 --so would have been using German coins in Poland? What coins would I want to purchase if I want coins dated before 1902? Polish Ducat (PLD) or silver Florin Zloty (PDF)? Talara? Groszy? My grandfather immigrated from the Lomza/Bialystok area of Poland in 1906. Would I want Russian Rubles? (RUEP) Austrian Kronen (ATK)? My maternal grandparents immigrated from the area of Pl~ock, Poland in 1910. Would their families have been using the Russian Rubles before 1910? Seems like lots of different money was circulating in Poland during the decades before my ancestors immigrated. I have read and reread the history of currency in Poland. clear as mud to me. Thanks in advance for any help. Bobbi McCaffrey