Staatliche museum Berlin – Bode Museum ancient coin collection LOTS OF GREEK COIN PHOTOS

see enclosed some picture of Umbria museum at the city of Gubbio lovely place !! take with my mobile not that good, sorry, some lovely ancient coins.
Also the bronze plates are fantastic, due to history and the customs of the Umbrian people before take over by the Roman, unique. !!

 

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The coin cabinet shown on the website supposedly houses their collection but it is not available to the general public walking in off the street (me). I'm sure that the drawers are all cataloged & full of coins from many time periods. Yea, it would be fun to be let loose in the room & just randomly open drawers hunting for treasure.

 

Thanks for posting those great pictures!

Since starting to collect ancients I've only been to one museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, and its display of ancient coins was disappointing... not even picture-worthy. The coins they chose to display were baffling-- not the big names you'd expect-- and they looked like they were dutifully polished every week.

I have a couple of coins which were formerly in museums.


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


Cheney (12 Aug 1815 - 23 July 1895) founded the company that became American Express. He started as a stagecoach driver, gained trust and money, developed some railways, and lost his right arm in a railway accident. He became a director at Wells Fargo and brought about a merger of several companies which became American Express. Initially an express mail service, American Express is now a major credit card company.


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: HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6
ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich;
ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404;
ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript

The Money Museum's website has some interesting videos and coins-- worth a virtual visit.

 

Displaying coins in a museum requires some really hard choices to overcome the fact that coins have two sides. I once visited the Smithsonian in Washington DC when they had a large display of ancients (now taken down) and saw an aureus of Septimius Severus. I visited the behind the scenes area (could be arranged back then) and was shown coins not on display. I asked what the reverse was on the aureus and was told that no one still there had seen it since it was glued to that board long ago. I understand they sent the coins to the ANS in NYC but do not know if that coin was ever removed from the glue.
I would like to see displays like Bude include plaster casts of the hidden side. Of course some museums leave the coins in the vault and show plaster of both sides.

Bude has several incuse reverse Italian coins but they always seem to put the obverse up so you can't see the reverse. The do show a lot of reverses of coins which is a lot better than always putting the obverse up.

 

Wow, C89 => great photos!! (thanks for the show) ....... and yes, that canadian baby did look like it would go well in my collection, eh?