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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8214446, member: 110350"]I am fairly certain that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is on the same level as the British Museum and at most a dozen or so other museums in the Anglo-American sphere in terms of classical art collections, does not have a full-time curator of coins and medals or even a separate department devoted to them. I vaguely recall that they have at least one small room with a few walls of coins, but I believe that most of the ones they have on display are divided up among the different galleries to which they're related in the general history of art -- Greek coins in the various galleries of ancient Greek art, Roman coins in the various galleries of ancient Roman art, and so on. I also vaguely recall reading that there was a controversial sale by the MMA of thousands of ancient coins back in the 1970s. By contrast, Coins and Medals is one of only eight different substantive departments listed at <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments</a>. So this is a major position there.[/QUOTE]