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The Institute for Numismatics and Money History at the University of Vienna is the only independent university institute in this field of study in Europe and offers an individual Master programme in numismatics and money history. The institute also offers summer seminars for students from the German speaking countries.
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The Bank of Thailand Museum was conceptualized in 1978 when the Bank of Thailand had appointed a special working group to establish a museum. However, the idea stayed dormant for several years and only until the renovation of the Main Mansion and the Royal Mansion was completed, the Bank of Thailand Museum Project started to set in motion. Upon the completion of the Museum, Their Majesties King Bhumiphol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit presided over the opening ceremony on January 9th, 1993.
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines. It was established on 3 July 1993 pursuant to the provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the New Central Bank Act of 1933. The BSP took over from the Central Bank of Philippines, which was established on 3 January 1949, as the country’s central monetary authority. The BSP enjoys fiscal and administrative autonomy from the National Government in the pursuit of its mandated responsibilities.
The Bank of Korea was established on June 12, 1950 under the Bank of Korea Act. The primary purpose of the Bank, as prescribed by the Act, is the pursuit of price stability. The Bank sets a price stability target every year in consultation with the Government and draws up and publishes an operational plan including it for monetary policy. To this end, the Bank performs the typical functions of a central bank, issuing banknotes and coins, formulating and implementing monetary and credit policy, serving as the bankers’ bank and the government’s bank. In additon, the Bank of Korea undertakes the operation and management of payment/settlement systems, and manages the nation’s foreign exchange reserves. It also exercises certain bank supervisory functions stipulated in the Bank of Korea Act.
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The Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan was founded in 1982 in commemoration of the Bank’s centenary and opened in November 1985 in Tokyo. The Museum belongs to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank. Since its foundation, the Bank of Japan has collected both domestic and foreign notes and coins for research purposes. At the heart of the Museum’s collection is the Sempeikan Collection, acquired from renowned numismatist Keibun Tanaka at the close of the Second World War. The Bank’s collection has continued to expand, and is one of the largest in Japan. The collection is world famous, not only for the variety of currency items from Japan but also from other East Asian countries.
The Museum of the Bank of Indonesia was founded on July 1, 1953, in the Sukarno era – from the nationalization of De Javasche Bank, a Dutch bank dating from colonial times. For the next 15 years, the Bank of Indonesia carried on commercial activities and acted as the nation’s bank. This came to an end with the Law No. 13/1968 on the Central Bank. A new chapter in the history of Bank Indonesia as an independent central bank was initiated when a new Central Bank Act, the UU No. 23/1999 on Bank Indonesia, was enacted on May 17, 1999 and has been amended with UU No. 3/2004 on January 15, 2004. The Act confers it the status and position as an independent state institution and freedom from interference by the Government or any other external parties.
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Many numismatic institutions worldwide do research, have educational programmes, and collect coins, medals and decorations, banknotes and primitive money. They usually have a numismatic library with publications and information on relevant topics. Quite often these libraries are part of a university, a museum or a national bank, and they can be considered as specialized scientific libraries. Find more information on numismatic institutions in the different countries in the subpages of this item.
The China Numismatic Museum in Beijing is a national theme museum under the management of The People’s Bank of China. It mainly engages in numismatic collections, exhibitions and research and is responsible for the numismatic collection guide, enhancement, research and money and coin culture promotion. This museum contains more than 300,000 articles including foreign and domestic money and ancient and new coins. The objects are collected and preserved in six categories: ancient money and coins, golden and silver coins, money and coins of minority groups, foreign money and coins, coin moulds and numismatic cultural relics.
If you can read Chinese, you can go the official Chinese website of the museum.
China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBPMC), with a staff of nearly 30,000, is under the direct leadership of the People’s Bank of China. Its 18 enterprises and one technical center are specialized in banknote printing, minting, banknote paper making, machinery of banknote printing and minting, credit cards, high-purity gold and silver refining, printing of value-added fax invoices, negotiable securities, banking vouchers, high-level anti-counterfeiting certificates.
Shanghai Mint, Shenyang Mint and Nanjing Mint, the subordinates of CBPMC, are the producers of circulating coins, commemorative coins, and gold and silver coins, and the processors of gold and silver for industrial usage.