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New York, American Numismatic Society
Athen, Agoramuseum
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Istanbul, Archäologisches Museum
Kopenhagen, Königliche Sammlung der Münzen und Medaillen
London, British Museum, Dept. of Coins & Medals
München, Staatliche Münzsammlung
Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
The Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is one of the largest Numismatic Collections in the world. The area covered by its holdings reaches from the beginning of coinage in the 7th century B.C. to 21st century Euros, its geographical scope from Finland to South Africa, from Berlin to Buenos Aires. In addition to more than 500,000 items (coins, medals, notes, tokens) the Cabinet also holds sealings, dies, and historical minting tools. The Numismatic Collection equally is maintaining its exhibitions duties and, being an archive of money, its role as a centre of numismatic research and study.
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Médailles
Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen
Dresden, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen
Priene-Depot, Balat
Balat, Museum
Bergama, Museum
Bergama, Depot
Department of Antiquities Jordan
Wien, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Münzkabinett of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna in Austria) owns over half a million objects which make it one of the largest collections of its kind, and it can be traced back until the 16th century. It holds coins, medals and banknotes, but also coin dies, bonds and primitive money. Not only does the collection house unique rarities and priceless treasures, its abundance and completeness make it an essential tool for fundamental research in Numismatics and History.
Mainz, Stadtarchiv
Halle, Archäologisches Museum der MLU
In 1841, the United Friedrichs-University Halle-Wittenberg decided to set up an archaeological University collection. However, this project could not be implemented until 1849. In this year the first quite small archaeological gallery was opened as the first public art collection in Halle. The core of this museum was the
formed by Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687-1744), which already provided access to original coins for lectures and exercises on ancient numismatics during his life-time. By doing this Schulze became a founder of numismatic teaching at University. This core collection, the
, can thus be linked to the development of the European Enlightenment in the 18th century in Halle, and it still is preserved here today. Almost half of today’s inventory of c. 5.000 coins (a total of c. 1.400 Greek, some Byzantine, and Oriental coins, the remaining two thirds are Roman) originates from Schulze’s collection.
Münster, Archäologisches Museum der Universität
The coin collection of the Archaelogical Museum of Münster University consists of more than 5,500 objects covering all historical periods in antiquity: Greek coins (of the archaic, classical and hellenistic periods), coins of the Roman Republic and empire, Civic and provincial coins of the Imperial period, and Byzantine ones.
Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage (HCCH) der Universität
The Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of Heidelberg University together with the Institut Klassische Archäologie holds a collection of more than 4,000 Greek and Roman coins. The collection dates back to Georg Friedrich Kreutzer (1771-1858) and grew with later purchases and donations. From the beginning, the collection was conceived to be used for teaching purposes, highlighting the history of coinage from its origins in ancient Greece down to Late Antiquity.
Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
With over 20,000 objects, the coin collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen is among the largest university collections of ancient coins in Germany; it is also one of the oldest, its history spanning more than 220 years. Today, the collection contains c. 8,000 Greek, 7,000 Roman, 2,000 Modern coins, and more than 3,000 medals and various other numismatic objects. The collection is made up by three major bequests: Tux (1798), von Schäffer (1888), and Hommel (1975). As such, it mirrors the history of coin collecting from the late Baroque period to the twentieth century. The most prestigious items of the collection are on permanent display at the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT Alte Kulturen.
Çanakkale Arkeoloji Müzesi
Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU)
The Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (capital of the National State of North Rhine-Westfalia) holds one of the biggest and most comprehensive numismatic collections of ancient coins and medallions at University level in Germany. The core of the collection is represented by some 8,000 coins supplemented by considerable holdings of casts of coins from Asia minor of the Hellenistic (Greek) and Roman Imperial periods.
Düsseldorf, Slg. Winseman Falghera
Düsseldorf, Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf, Slg. H.-W. Winkler
Heidelberg, Ägyptologische Sammlung der Universität
Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik der Universität
Freiburg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Universität
The Seminar of Ancient History holds more than 12,000 coins of the Roman Imperial period and Late Antiquity. Their majority originates from a collection which Herbert Nesselhaus, the former Professor of Ancient History, was able to purchase in 1961 from the Archbishopric of Freiburg. The collection had found a temporary home there some twenty years earlier: Between 1900 and 1926 the Geheimer Oberbaurat Heinrich Wefels from Erlangen built a collection of c. 14,000 coins, which he had acquired at various auctions. About 10,300 are coins of Roman emperors and an additional 2,400 represent provincial issues. Wefels focussed on the Imperial period, but did add both earlier and later coinages, too. About 950 Byzantine coins, 360 Roman Republican ones, 220 Greek issues, and 22 Celic coins bear witness to these secondary areas of interest. Although the Seminar für Alte Geschichte is not any longer able to purchase additional coins, its collection was augmented through generous donations by Herbert A. Cahn, Otto Feld and Gerold Walser. Today the collection is complemented by a scientific numismatic library, which again originates in the collector Heinrich Wefels.
Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Antikensammlung
The Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) owns roughly 30.000 coins and medals, ranging from Greek and Roman specimens to modern currencies. These originate from various sources, such as the collections of Gerlach, Heerdegen, Luthart, Pick, Sinugowitz, Varnhagen, Voit von Salzburg, Will, Zucker, as well as the items of the “Ilse und Ulrich Zwicker Stiftung”. The Will collection, consisting of about 12.000 pieces, and the Zwicker foundation with its approx. 11.000 objects, make roughly two thirds of the whole lot. The eldest collection was composed by Friedrich Voit von Salzburg between 1845 and 1858. The most recent accession, the objects of the “Ilse und Ulrich Zwicker Stiftung”, took place at the beginning of this century. The chronological and regional emphasis of the coins differs by each collection with a particular focus on antiquity, from the Greek and Romans until the end of the Byzantine times.
Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität
The Numismatic Collection of History Institute of the Faculty of History of the Ruhr-University Bochum consists of more than 3,400 objects covering the whole of Antiquity, from the Archaic Age of Greece to the Byzantine period. In addition, it includes a small Late Mediaeval hoard, which was discovered in Querenburg in 1966 in the course of the construction of the University.
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universitätsbibliothek
Augsburg, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Universität
The Collection - built from 1978 onwards - features more than 2,000 ancient coins, Roman and Jewish, which are also being used for university teaching.
Konstanz, Universitätsbibliothek
Since 2009 the University of Konstanz houses a small collection of ancient coins, all donated by private sponsors. The focus lies on coins from late antiquity, but some of the ca. 150 objects derive from the early and higher Roman Empire as well. The collection is used for teaching purposes in particular.
Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum
The University of Bonn was founded in 1818. Only one year later, the university bought the well known coin collection of Canonicus Franz Pick (1750-1819) in a public auction, held the 27th August 1819. The collection consisted of five gold, 500 silver and more than 2000 bronze coins. Over decades F. Pick had collected objects of art, especially antiques and Roman coins, coming from hoards in the north of Bonn, the region of the former roman legion camp. The first director of the
(AKM) of the university, F.G. Welcker, augmented the collection in the following decades, also by buying coins found in and around Bonn. Later coin hoards came to the
, wich was established in 1822, the predecessor of the
. The first catalogue of the coin collection of the
, written in 1836, assembled, more than 6,000 coins. These coins are still the essential part of the actual coin collection of the AKM. This collection – together with Greek coins, donated in the beginning of the last century, und some new acqusitions – was taken 2010 in a digital database and is therefore now open for the students of the university as well as for extern visitors.
Eichstätt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Katholischen Universität
The coin collection of the chair of ancient history at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt was founded in the mid-eighties. Since its establishment, the collection has been gradually expanded and missing pieces have been acquired, so that there are now 353 coins in total, that cover the range from classical Greece up to late antiquity and byzantine times. The collection contains mostly roman coins, although there are both Greek and Hellenistic coins, as well as mintages from the periphery of the Roman Empire, like Parthian and Celtic coins. The focus lies on Roman Imperial coinage, which make up the largest part of the collection, and is framed by smaller assemblages from Roman Republican times and late antiquity. Because of the lack of a proper edition, since 2013, the Eichstaett coin collection became a big part of everyday teaching at the university and contributed to various student- and research-projects, that helped systematise, edit and even exhibit several of these coins.
Freiberg, Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Bergakademie
The numismatic collection represents a part of the scientific historical holdings of the University library and includes some 16,200 coins and medals. Subjects covered are besides the modern period, the Middle ages and Antiquity.
Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-Universität, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften II
The coin collections of the Goethe University are located in the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, and reside partly in the Antiquities Collection of Abteilung I (Classical Archaology) and partly in the collections of Abteilung II (Archaeology and History of the Roman Provinces and the Archaeology of Coins, Money and the Economy in the Ancient World). The Antiquities Collection of the Goethe University, based at the Classical Archaeology Department of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences includes around 250 ancient coins alongside a rich collection of ancient vases, glass, lamps, terracottas and other objects. Roman coins form the focus of the coin collection, supplemented by a small number of Greek, Jewish, medieval and modern coins. The coins are regularly used in teaching as study objects, especially for iconographic questions, but also for numismatic identification exercises. The largest part of the numismatic collections of Department II of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt pertains to around 30,000 plaster cast of ancient coins, encompassing all periods of antiquity. The casts were originally made as research tools for scholars such as Konrad Kraft, Richard Delbrueck and Susanne Grunauer-von Hoerschelmann. A particular strength of the plaster cast collection is lies in the Roman Provincial Coinage. The department also owns two collections of original coins: a teaching collection of around 75 pieces, and a special collection of roman coins with countermarks, encompassing around 300 pieces.
Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-Universität, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften I
Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
The Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (Braunschweig, State of Lower Saxony, Germany) holds a collection of about 30.000 coins and medals, ranging from antiquity to the modern era. The collection was founded by the dukes of the house Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel with a focus on ancient coins as well as coins and medals of the Guelphs (particularly outstanding is the collection of Northern and Central German bracteates). In the 19th and 20th centuries the collection was expanded by the acquisition of important collections and treasure troves. Paul Jonas Meier bought a substantial collection of French and German Art Nouveau plaques and medals for the museum in the first quarter of the 20th century. Over the centuries, the coin cabinet came about to harbor a universal collection of German, European and non-European coins, among them ca 2.000 Greek and 2.500 Roman coins.
Gießen, Archäologisches Institut der Justus-Liebig-Universität
Greifswald, Akademisches Münzkabinett der Universität
The University of Greifswald’s Academic Coin Cabinet comprises 1,200 coins and medals that date from antiquity up until the start of the 20th Century. The core collections are bracteates from the 12th/13th Centuries, coins from German territories of the early modern period and Pomeranian medals awarded for science, art, and history. Further coin collections belonging to the University of Greifswald are held as part of the Gustaf Dalman Collection (on the history of Palestine), the Victor Schultze Collection (on Christian archaeology) and in the collection of prehistoric antiquities.
Köln, Institut für Altertumskunde
The Department of Classics at the University of Cologne holds a teaching and research collection of about 12,000 ancient coins. Its core holdings, coins from Roman Egypt (30 BC–AD 298), were almost doubled in 2020 through an exceptional gift, now exceeding 7,000 pieces and ranking among the largest and most balanced collections in the field. Complementary sections include over 500 Ptolemaic coins (323–30 BC), more than 300 Alexandrian coins from the Late Antique–Byzantine period (AD 298–646), and nearly 400 coins from Roman Syria. The collection also includes about 1,800 coins from Greek Asia Minor, over 120 Parthian pieces (247 BC–AD 224), and representative series from the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, and Byzantine Empire.
Mainz, Historisches Seminar, Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte, der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
In the Coin Collection of Johannes Gutenberg-University, there are collections of two institutions: The department of Ancient History and the Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz (episcopal museum). It consists of more than 1,000 coins, covering nearly the entire spectrum of ancient numismatics, from Archaic Greek to Late Antiquity and a few examples from the Byzantine period. The particular focus of the Mainz Coin Collection is on the 2nd to 4th century AD. All the coins are also in use for university teaching.
Marburg, Archäologisches Seminar der Philipps-Universität
The collection of coins of the Archaeological Seminary of the Philipps-University Marburg comprises about 1,000 Greek and Roman coins. It is part of the Antikensammlung, which was founded in 1878 by Ludwig von Sybel (1846-1929), Professor of Classical Archeology. A special enrichment to the collection is the donation from 2017 by Hans-Werner Ritter of nearly 300 well-preserved coins from all eras and regions of Ancient Antiquity.
Passau, Professur für Alte Geschichte der Universität
The Numismatic Collection of the Professorship for Ancient History at the University of Passau contains 377 coins, covering nearly the whole of ancient Numismatic History, from the Archaic Age of Greece to Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Age, with a focus on the coins of the Roman emperors. The beginning of the collection is connected with Prof. Dr. H. Wolff, who was holder of the chair for Ancient History from 1980 to 2006. His successor, Prof. Dr. O. Stoll (since 2007), was able to purchase and acquire additional coins, so that the collection reached its contemporary content in 2015. The Professorship is – due to missing financial aid by the university – not able to purchase additional coins.
Rostock, Heinrich-Schliemann-Institut für Altertumswissenschaften der Universität
The Academic Coin Cabinet of the University of Rostock was founded in the year 1794, at the instigation of the outstanding orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734–1815) and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich Franz II. Thanks to the legacy built by Tychsen, complemented with numerous later acquisitions, Baron Erhard von Nettelbladt (1792–1663), responsible for the Cabinet as the librarian of the University, was able to enlarge the collection from 6’500 to no less than 27’000 entries. Several inventory settlements and many losses caused by World War II resulted in the dissolution of the Coin Cabinet in 1944. Consequently, the section containing the Ancient, Byzantine and Oriental coins, as well as a number of modern coins, were assigned to the corpus of the Archaeological Collection of Rostock University. The Archaeological Collection of Rostock University has its seat at the Heinrich-Schliemann-Institute for Ancient Studies. It can be described as a typical academic research and study collection, mostly used for academic teaching. Moreover, there are permanent exhibition rooms, opened to the public once per week. Apart from the coins, the collection contains archaeological objects of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman periods, as well as a number of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. In 2008 the collection was significantly increased, as the inventory of the Collection of Antiquities of Greifswald University was added, which by that time was given over as a permanent loan. To date, the collection of coins consists of c. 4’000 Ancient and Byzantine, c. 800 Oriental and c. 4’500 modern coins and medals. In addition, there is a small but rather important collection of fish glue casts taken in the time of Tychsen from a number of Islamic coins. A small part of the coin collection is integrated into the permanent collection open to the public. The coins kept in the deposit are mainly used for academic teaching. They offer the opportunity to learn and practice the methods of numismatics by using original objects. Furthermore, the coins are regularly used in the context of workshops held by the working group ‘School & Museum’. Up to date, only the Roman and Byzantine coins have been investigated scientifically. These coins were published by Silke Burmeister in 1999. Since 2019 we are adding, to begin with, the data of c. 900 Greek and Roman coins to the NUMiD database. More will follow.
Stuttgart, Historisches Institut, Abtl. Alte Geschichte, der Universität
With its 162 pieces, the collection of coins from antiquity at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of History, Department for Ancient History is rather small. Nevertheless, part of it (56 coins, mostly from the Roman imperial period and late antiquity) is in constant use as teaching material concerning the basics of numismatics. The other section of 106 coins was purchased as part of a scholarly project between 1994 and 1996, comprising pieces from the Pontic region under the Hellenistic king Mithridates VI. Eupator (reigned 120-63 BC).
Trier, Fach Alte Geschichte der Universität
In 2017 Karl-Heinz Zimmer, a water engineer based in Trier, donated his collection of ancient coins to Trier University. This collection, which is now kept with the departement of Ancient History, consists of a total of 515 coins. It was built over several decades and in cooperation with local cultural heritage authorities. The collection does have a local focus, as most of the coins had been struck in the Roman mint of ancient Trier and/or were found in Trier proper, respectively. Many coins hence do have a known findspot; remarkable e.g. are many coins found at the Roman bridge in Trier (Moselbrücke) or those deposited at the Trierweiler temple. The collections thus does not only provide an imporatent teaching tool during University courses, but does represent scientific value in its own right.
Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität
The Coin cabinet in the Martin von Wagner Museum (Würzburg University Museum). The Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg (JMU) holds about 1.200 coins, medals and para-numismatic objects from the 7th BCE to modern times with a focus on Greek and Roman coins. Due to the near complete destruction in World War II the coin cabinet in the Martin von Wagner Museum (MvW) is mainly build by donations after 1945 and by a few selected acquisitions. The most important of those donations is the Coll. H. Wellhöfer – c. 400 classical Greek coins with an emphasis on iconography and aesthetics.
Köln, Historisches Institut der Universität zu Köln
The collection currently holds c. 1,150 coins, mainly of the Roman Imperial period (Republic 72, Principate 517, Late Antiquity 104), plus a number of Provincial issues of the Roman period (93), and some Celtic, Germanic, and other Greek coins. In 2008, 22 Late Roman coins and 285 Byzantine ones of the Krengel collection were purchased.
Wien, Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
The Department of Numismatics and Monetary History at the University of Vienna is the only autonomous university department of this orientation in Europe. At the same time, it is the only place where it is possible to study the subject of numismatics and monetary history in its full methodological and technical variety, covering all eras from antiquity to the modern period. Due to its expertise on coins, medals, monetary symbols and monetary equivalents covering all periods and cultures, as well as the associated political, economic, social and cultural questions, the field of numismatics and monetary history is firmly established in numerous key research areas of the Faculty. Furthermore, it significantly contributes to the basic research profile of the University of Vienna, especially in the fields of classical studies and medieval research. The range of courses extends from extension curricula for students in bachelor’s programmes to a doctoral programme in numismatics. The Department offers around 30 hours of numismatic teaching per week, and provides various networking opportunities, as well as useful complimentary courses for almost all degree programmes. Through its extensive study collection, specialised library, catalogue collection and the “Numismatische Zentralkartei” (NZK, numismatic central catalogue) – including around 1.5 million coins documented in photographs - the Department offers working opportunities that are unique in the world and that international academics regularly make use of. The Department has an extensive national and international network with all institutions working in the field of numismatics – not least through its graduates. In many ways, the Department’s influence extends beyond the University and academia. The Department regularly offers summer schools that are targeted at international early stage researchers.
Kiel, Münzkabinett der Antikensammlung
The Coin collection of Kiel University is kept by two institutions: The Antikensammlung of the University of Kiel holds a collection of circa 1,100 Greek and Roman coins, housed in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. The collection for the most part originates from donations of the Danish king Christian VIII Friedrich (1786–1848) as well as acquisitions by Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (1801–1894), professor of Classical Archaeology in Kiel, later supplemented by further purchases and donations. Roman Imperial coinage constitutes the vast majority of the collection, that was conceived to be used for teaching purposes and today is occasionally incorporated into the seminars of Classical Archaeology in Kiel. Only a few years ago, the Institute of Classical Studies at Kiel University (Department of Ancient History) started to compile a small numismatic collection. Currently, it comprises nearly 80 ancient (mainly Roman) coins.
Forschungsstelle für Islamische Numismatik der Universität Tübingen
Berlin, Skulpturensammlung der Staatlichen Museen
Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum
Greifswald, Theologische Fakultät, Gustaf-Dalman-Slg.
Braunschweig, Sammlung der Technischen Universität
Berlin, Freie Universität, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Mannheim, Historisches Institut der Universität
The Coin Collection of the Chair for Ancient History at Mannheim University goes back to donations by the late Prof Dr Elfriede Höhn and Prof Dr Heinrich Chantraine. The collection consists of 126 ancient, predominantly Roman coins. Thanks to the special interest of Prof Höhn, the collection has a strong emphasis on portraits of imperial women.
Münzforschungssammlung der Braunschweigischen Landessparkasse
Münzsammlung des Museums Wolfenbüttel
Hannover, Museum August Kestner
Kiel, Institut für Klass. Altertumskunde der CAU, Abtl. Alte Geschichte
Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek, Kustodie
Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen
Gotha, Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Freiburg, Institut für Christliche Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte
Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
Winterthur, Münzkabinett
The Münzkabinett Winterthur is a municipal museum for monetary history in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland. The beginnings of its collection date back to 1660. In the period from 1861 to 1920, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer made a significant mark on the collection as curator, directing the focus of the Coin Cabinet towards Greek coinage.
Athen, KIKPE Foundation
The Social and Cultural Affairs Welfare Foundation (KIKPE) was founded in 1988 and is active at Athens since then. The KIKPE Numismatic Collection comprises about 18,700 coins, etc, acquired in Europe and the USA from international auctions houses and art dealers. The core of the collection consists of ancient Greek and Byzantine coins. The collection possesses a significant number of Modern Greek coins of different alloys, as well as coins of Hellenic and Hellenized cities, which were minted during Roman imperial times.The KIKPE Numismatic Collection is on long-term loan to the Benaki Museum and is presented to the public in Greece and abroad through exhibitions organized under the auspices of the museum.
Regensburg, Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität
The coin collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Regensburg originates from the private collection of the engineer and architect Franz Langlotz (1876-1953). Due to his personal interest and passion he managed to collect many objects of ancient art – including Attic and southern Italian painted ceramics, 42 (mostly Roman) glass vessels, small bronze objects, Hellenistic terracotta statuettes – and 25 coins (mainly Roman denarii).Born in Regensburg, Langlotz bequeathed half of this collection, including the coins, to his former school, the Humanistisches Gymnasium, now the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium. From 1991 to 1994, on the initiative of Prof Dr Dieter Salzmann, over 800 ancient coins were added, mainly as donations from various German auction houses and coin cabinets as well as permanent loans from the Historisches Museum Regensburg.Designed as a study collection, it covers all the important historical regions and Roman provinces of the Mediterranean from the the Greek Archaic period to the Byzantine era.
Greifswald, Theologische Fakultät, Victor-Schultze-Slg.
Regensburg, Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium
Regensburg, Historisches Museum
Göttingen, Münzkabinett der Universität
The collection comprises a total ot some 40,000 coins of which are 5,900 Greek, 9,600 Roman, 1,000 Byzantine, 4,000 from the Orient, 2,100 Medieval, and 15,600 modern ones. In addition there are c. 1,700 medals and related objects, tokens, the latter including c. 100 made from lead.
Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg/Stadtarchäologie
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
Assos, Ausgrabung
Münzen, die in Assos gefunden wurden und die sich im dortigen Grabungsdepot oder im Museum Troya befinden.
Brüssel, Königliche Bibliothek, Münzkabinett
Das Münzkabinett (Penningkabinet/Cabinet des Médailles) entstand 1835 und ist seit 1838 Teil der Königlichen Bibliothek.
Halle, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte
Salzburg Museum
At the museum’s founding in 1834, the coins and medals of the former independent archiepiscopal foundation of Salzburg were an important part not only of the collection but also of the presentation. The collection grew at a significant rate in the following decades. Its development was especially encouraged by the fact that several curators were simultaneously the foremost numismatists in Salzburg at that time. Above all Karl Roll (1850–1934) made an important contribution to it – the City of Salzburg has even named a street after him. The purchase of the Roll Collection ultimately made the museum collection the most comprehensive of its kind. The inventory suffered a grave and irreplaceable loss shortly after the end of the Second World War. After American soldiers transported the holdings to Hallein in 1945 – they had been salvaged in Dürrnberg – almost half the total inventory of Salzburg coins and medals went missing, among them nearly all rare and unique objects. Since then, a number of important pieces have been bought back.The heart of the collection consists in the Salzburg coins and medals. Coins were minted from the tenth century until 1810 with only few interruptions in Salzburg and several other cities and towns of the archiepiscopal foundation. In the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century, the coins minted here – contingent to the rich precious metal deposits in the Salzburg region – wielded great economic influence far beyond Salzburg. In the Early Modern Age important artists and dye cutters literally
Winterthur, Freunde des Münzkabinetts
Olympia, Archäologisches Museum
Münster, Münzkabinett am LWL-Museum
Das Münzkabinett am LWL-Museum hat seine Wurzeln im 19. Jahrhundert. Aus dem sich im Bürgertum allgemein verbreitenden Interesse für Geschichte gründete sich 1825 der Verein für vaterländische Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens. Die Anlage einer eigenen Sammlung von Altertümern gehörte von Anfang an zu den Aktivitäten des Vereins und es waren vor allem Münzen, die als Geschenk den Weg in diese junge Sammlung fanden.Schon früh kümmerte sich ein Münzwart um die Ordnung, Erforschung und Erweiterung der Bestände. Im Jahr 1908 wurden die Sammlungen des Altertumsvereins schließlich dem neuen Landesmuseum für die Provinz Westfalen übertragen und bis heute wird sie stetig durch Ankäufe ergänzt und von einem Numismatiker wissenschaftlich betreut.Seine Wurzeln hat das Münzkabinett am LWL-Museum im 19. Jahrhundert. Aus dem sich im Bürgertum allgemein verbreitenden Interesse für Geschichte gründete sich 1825 der Verein für vaterländische Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens. Die Anlage einer eigenen Sammlung von Altertümern gehörte von Anfang an zu den Aktivitäten des Vereins und es waren vor allem Münzen, die als Geschenk den Weg in diese junge Sammlung fanden.Der Schwerpunkt der Sammlung liegt bei Münzen und Medaillen aus Westfalen sowie bei Münzfunden aus der Region. Auch römische Münzen und solche aus der Zeit der Ottonen und Salier (10./11. Jahrhundert) sind in nennenswerter Anzahl vertreten. Neben den Münzen finden sich in den Sammlungen auch Münzstempel und Siegel sowie Papiergeld.
Bonn, Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut
Das Franz Joseph Dölger-Institut erforscht interdisziplinär den vielfältigen Prozess der Auseinandersetzung zwischen christlicher, jüdischer und paganer Antike und die damit einhergehende Transformation zur spätantiken Kultur bis in das 7. Jahrhundert.Im Mittelpunkt steht das kulturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (RAC), das diesen Prozess in Beiträgen eines internationalen Autorenkreises detailliert aufarbeitet.Im Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum (JbAC) werden unterstützend Artikel und Rezensionen aus allen beteiligten Disziplinen (z. B. Patristik, Klassische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Judaistik, Religionswissenschaft, Christliche Archäologie, Liturgiewissenschaft) zum Forschungsgebiet des Instituts veröffentlicht. Thematisch einschlägige Monographien und Sammelbände erscheinen in den Buchreihen Ergänzungsbände zum Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Kleine Reihe der Ergänzungsbände und Theophaneia.Neben der Publikationsarbeit veranstaltet das Dölger-Institut Vortragsreihen auch für das breitere Publikum. Gastwissenschaftler*innen aus dem In- und Ausland, die über einen kürzeren oder längeren Zeitraum am Institut arbeiten, sind stets willkommen.
Olympia, DAI Ausgrabungen
Köln, Römisch-Germanisches Museum
The Romano-Germanic Museum was opened in 1974 on the former site of a Roman urban villa just to the south of the cathedral. It was the result of the fusion of two collections owned by the City of Cologne: the Roman collection that, since 1935, had formed the Roman and Germanic Departments of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, and the collection of the Prehistoric Museum, known since 1926 as the Museum of Prehistory and Early History.The Museum of Prehistory and Early History, founded in 1907, concentrated mainly on the prehistoric cultures of the Rhineland. The origin of the Roman Department of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum dates back to the collection of Franz Ferdinand Wallraf (1748-1824) who bequeathed it to the City of Cologne in his will. The museum's collections grew considerably with the purchase of the private collections of Carl Anton Niessen (1934), Baron Johannes von Diergardt (1935) and Franz Wollmann (1939/40) as well as with the regular excavations carried out in Cologne.The extensive destruction endured by Cologne in the Second World War did not spare the city's museums. The Wallraf-Richartz Museum managed to get the major part of its collections to safety in emergency depositories outside Cologne, although some of the archives were destroyed in the bombing. The collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History suffered heavy losses.After the war, the return of the evacuated museum collections was organised by Fritz Fremersdorf (1894-1983), the first director of the Romano-Germanic Museum, which had already been founded in October 1946. Its location to the south of the cathedral was determined by that of the world-famous Dionysos mosaic, discovered there in 1941 during the construction of an air-raid shelter. Until the opening of the new building on March 4, 1974, the museum's sizable collections were displayed in temporary exhibition rooms. More than 20 million people have visited the museum since its opening.
Linz, Landesmuseum
The Schlossmuseum Linz is a central institution for presenting and researching the cultural past, present and future of Upper Austria.
Bochum, Medizinhistorische Sammlung der Ruhr-Universität