A few museum shots.

At the British museum there are coins scattered all about, mostly just as illustrations to other displays. But a few stood out. A couple shots were with one member in mind!

 

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OMG , I am in love with every single coin here, but I am just DROOLING over that aes signatum bar!

 

Nice pics, Ken. It's great you get to see that stuff.

 

O wow! thanks for sharing Ken..

 

Great pics Ken. Thanks for sharing. I especially like the cast bronze! I have a few of these, but nothing like the currency bar.

The British Museum is on my bucket list.

 

i believe i've seen these things for sale before but had no idea what they were and in my ignorance let them go...i guess it's one way to pay for an education...9_9...

 

Quite a pile of aurei there! Magnificent!

 

They're pretty inexpensive so I bought a bunch to use as a backsplash for my stove...




...NOT!

If you can even find one for sale it would be five or six figures. The ones in the above photoshopped picture are all held by the British Museum. The bull (mirror imaged and shown twice) is the same one Ken saw in person and photographed .

 

I would sell my stove for one of those aes bars!!!

 

Add the fridge, dishwasher and a few TV's

 

haha!..that's Italian for good eating ^^

 

I’ll be there in July. Can’t wait.

 

Nice! Wish I could go

 

5 AM. At the train station to go to Paris. We’ll hit the Louvre. Can’t remember if they have coins displayed there. It’s been 20 years since I was there last.

 

They have some but it's a small assortment scattered amongst their other, larger objects.

If you're coming back through London, I'd suggest stopping by the British Library, right next to St. Pancras, which has a Magna Carta and other incredible books/documents on display.

 

Fantastic pics Ken Another museum worth visiting is the Bode Museum in Berlin. There are something like 5 or 6 rooms filled with hundreds of really phenomenal coins. I wish my pics would do it justice but you get the idea

 

Obligatory pic from the Trier museum hoard:
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If you should go to Venice, make a visit to the Museo Correr. They have glass cases that you can put your phone on and make excellent pictures. Here are some gorgeous Renaissance medals, some by Pisanello and Bellini.



Self portrait by Giovanni Boldù, 1458



Pisanello, about 1440



Mehmet II, portrait by Gentile Bellini, about 1480

 

I thought the Louvre Museum could be visited electronically through the Internet. They have an appropriate site, I believe. Don't they?

 

Years ago, I gained access to the British Museum student's room to examine coins in their cabinets that are not on display. I simply had to submit a request ahead of time with an introductory letter from "someone known to them". On the two occasions I did this, I had letters from academics, one who had a published book in the British Museum, and the other was my father-in-law, an American professor who was on a teaching exchange in Loughborogh England. Neither are numismatists but simply recognized academics.

Not sure if this is still possible, but it was an amazing opportunity for me.