This is a bag of shredded money from the Federal Reserve. It was given to Bill Maurer by Ellen Fiengold, curator of the National Numismatic Collection at Smithsonian Institution on the occasion of the opening of the Value of Money exhibit. July 2015.
These are flyers and photographs from the exhibition "Trillion$", held to commemorate the Federal Reserve's Centennial year in 2013. Here is the link to some of the exhibition materials still available in the USC library:…
From the British Museum Website:
LOCAL CASH BOXThis is one of the commonest and most ancient objects used to store/save valuables such as coins, paper money (currencies) and jewelleries, especially among the Yoruba people of the South West region of…