I like coins

I believe I have seen your digital tray before. It is an absolute pleasure to see it again. The are coins shown in proprtion?

 

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Yes, in the coin collage, all my coins are shown in exact proportional size.

 

The Vicarello Hoard display in the MR is one of the most spectacular coin displays I have ever seen. My children literally dragged me away from it after I spent to long trying to ID each coin type.

And I wonder why no one will go to a museum with me.

SC

 

I apologize for my ignorance, but what is the MR? I assume the first letter stands for Museum in whatever language, but the R?

I am very fortunate that I trained my son to love museums from the time he was about a year old, carrying him through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a backpack so he could look over my shoulder and contribute his intelligent commentary on the art!

He is now in the process of getting his PhD in the History of Art. (He also has an infinitely better memory about art than I do; he can look at a photo of a painting we saw once and tell me exactly where we saw it and when, even back to when he was 12. I'm lost, beyond "oh yeah, that looks familiar!")

 

It is referred to the Museo Nazionale Romano at Palazzo Massimo alle terme, the main museum dedicated to the ancient roman antiquities in Rome. The basement is the so-called Medagliere, were it is displayed one of the most important italian coin collections, from the aes grave to the renaissance.
https://museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it/

 

I thought my son and I went to just about every museum in Rome when we were there in 2008, but I guess that we must have skipped that one. Unfortunately.

 

I’ve been living in Rome since 1983 and I still haven’t visited half of the museums, included the world greatest etruscan museum which is no more than a 10 minutes walk from my home

 

Go check it out and report back.

We will wait right here.

 

You may even have been there without noticing the coin collection in the basement. If I recall correctly, there are 5 or 6 floors. I spent 2 out of 7 days there in 2008.

 

Ooh a group shot pile-on!
Here’s my shot of favourite coins I post a while ago!

and the other side

 

I like coins too. Tried to take a «I like coins» pic, or «Stilleben with coins».
Probably not very useful.

 

I posted this "group shot" in a thread that sank quietly beneath the waves...

 

Fitting 164 ancients and one modern coin in a large shot glass:

 

Adding in artifacts and books makes a nice scene:

 

Last one, hot tubbing with the gods (and their pet eagle):



OK, I am done for now.

John

 

I would be interested in that museum. Do you have any reference to it? My wife and I plan to visit Italy (she has never been there) sometime in the near future (and, of course, after this covid mess is abated.)

 

https://www.museoetru.it/en
@Alegandron give me a call eventually when you come, maybe it could be the time I finally go and visit it!
I lack support from wife and daughters in my interest for antiquities....

 

Now museums openings depend on the spread of the virus in each region, checked on a weekly basis. In the “yellow” regions (low diffusion) they are opened in the working days only.

 

I think you mean the one with the coins shown earlier?

It's in the Palazzo Massimo - a stone's throw from Termini rail station -

https://museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it/en/palazzo-massimo/

A wonderful place...





ATB,
Aidan.

 

@svessien and @Scipio, I bought a guidebook or some other book of photos at every museum we saw in or near Rome during the two weeks we were there, except for all the churches/cathedrals, and the Colosseum, and Hadrian's Villa. (I do still have the free brochure from there.) I looked on my "Italy" shelf and found books about the following places we visited: Ostia Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Borghese Gallery, Villa Farnesina, Vatican Museum, Capitoline Museums (Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori), and . . . . the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Palazzo Massimo. So we were there after all (I recognize a lot of the art, like the "Boxer" sculpture), but we definitely missed the numismatic collection. In fact, flipping through the book, I don't see any mention of it.