Museum Coin Photos - Post some here

I just returned from a short trip to Dublin and Berlin. In the little spare time that I had available we visited the Bode Museum in Berlin.

Here is an Irish coin at the Bode:


This display shows some of the more unusual monies of the world. There were other displays showing big plate money and lap stones etc.


Zoom in on these wonderful ancient type coins:





Let’s see some of your museum coin photographs (or maybe your coins that had been or should be in a museum).

Post ‘em if you got ‘em.

 

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May 1 was a beautiful spring day in Berlin this year.

This depicts the front entrance of the Bode museum on a beautiful spring day:

The treasures inside are just awesome.

 

I don't have any museum photographs of coins but I do have some photographs of coins which used to be in museums, although I doubt they were ever on display .


SICILY, Selinos
Circa 410 BCE
AR litra, 11mm, 0.76 g, 1h
Obv: nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above
Rev: man-faced bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right
Ref: Potamikon, p. 116 figure 152 (this coin); HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare.
ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich;
ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404;
ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript


EGYPT, Alexandria. Gallienus
year 13, CE 265/6
tetradrachm, 21 mm, 9.1 gm
Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: AVTKΠΛIKΓAΛΛIHNOCCEB; eagle standing right, holding wreath in beak, palm over shoulder; L IΓ across field
Ref: Emmett 3806(13), R1
Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 88.203 (accessioned 1888); Benjamin Pierce Cheney Collection


EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
Regnal year 17
AE drachm, 33mm
Obv: laureate bust right
Rev: Serapis-Agathodaemon standing erect right
Ref: Dattari 2829; Emmett 1678.17
Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1982.1988, G.781)

...and about 39 more from the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Great photos! I posted some of mine elsewhere a while ago. Was in Berlin in February (World Money Fair) but had some time for an "excursion" to the Bode Museum and the Neues Museum. See here (posts 20 to 22).

A few months earlier, in September, I was in Dublin and also visited the National Museum at Collins Barracks. See here (posts 2 and 3). Not necessarily ancients but maybe interesting ...

Christian

 

Very cool.

This thread describes my earlier visit to the Bode museum. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/st...ots-of-greek-coin-photos.268686/#post-2237433

Of course we all remember this gold coin that was stolen from the Bode a year or so ago.

 

I took several photos of the coins at the Met when I went to NYINC in 2018 but here's one of my favorites:


And here's a museum coin in my own collection, ex Boston MFA collection, donated by Dr. Malcolm Storer in 1932:

 

In a word.....breathtaking!

 

kool...thanks for sharing.....yeah @TIF ...your coins set the bar for me

 

I am liking that turtle and gold coins wow impressive detail.

 

shot of one of the coin rooms in the Capitoline museum below. But probably more interesting was the British Museum effort in mixing coins with similar themed artifacts.Top photo coin room Capitoline Museum Rome. Next three various shots in the Roman/Greek ancient artifacts and coin section British Museum.

 

Trier:



Venice:



Leiden:



British museum:

 

A couple years back I went to the ANA Money Museum in Colorado Springs. Here is what I wrote about their Roman and Greek displays.

 

Trier



Lieden



British Museum



Venice



Pompeii

 

Sorry for the double post. My browser decided to explode

 

Pescennius Niger denarius RIC 76 var John Hopkins University Collection Baltimore J.W. Garret Collection

 

I don't have many ex museum coins but I have a few in reference books.
Antiochos IX Ar Tetradrachm 113-112 B.C.
Lorber Seleucid Coins 2263a This coin pictured
Hoover Handbook of Greek Coins 9 1228i This coin pictured

 

I love museum coin pictures. Here are some from the Correr Museo in Venice (different from those above).



Louis the Pious, Venice, 9th century



Nicolò Tron (1471-1473), one of the few Doges putting his own portrait on coins

And from the Royal House Archive in the Netherlands



A large silver medal of Stadtholder Frederick Henry of the Netherlands, 1637



Same place, another large silver medal of the 17th century



Same museum, a coronation medal of William III and Mary of the United Kingdom



The Order of the Garter.



Another priceless order. We can all hand in our complete coin collections, but together they are not worth the value of this royal trinket, that kings and emperors hand out freely amongst each other.

 

This beautiful Renaissance medal, designed by Antonio Gambello around 1508, shows Domenico Grimani, the cardinal and priest of the Basilica San Marco in Venice. I saw it in the family palace, now Museo Grimani, that's full of beautiful ceilings and stunning colorful marbles.

 

I saw a lot of great exhibits at the MET.

 

Here are a couple of images from a recent trip to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

The Chalgrove Hoard:-



With Domitianus II