'Numismatic Institutions'

Australia: Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney

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The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS) was established at Macquarie University in 1999, as the result of an important endowment from Mr and Mrs W.L. Gale. The Centre has been placed within the Division of the Humanities. It has a board, as defined by the Centre’s constitution, of six members. The director (from 2000) is Dr Kenneth Sheedy. Each year ACANS appoints one senior research fellow and two junior fellows. It also annually appoints the Gale Distinguished Lecturer in Numismatics.

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Published on on 2010/06/11. Tags: , , .

Austria: University of Vienna – Institute for Numismatics and Money History

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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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Published on on 2010/01/29. Tags: , , , , , , .

Belgium: Royal Library of Belgium – Cabinet of Medals

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The Cabinet of Medals was founded on August 8, 1835 as ‘collection de médailles appartenant à l’État’ (medal collection belonging to the state) and as part of the ‘Musée d’armes anciennes, d’armures, d’objets d’art et de numismatique’. On August 2, 1838, it became part of the Royal Library. The first curators started the collection of coins and medals by buying series centred around the ancient Low Countries (Pays-Bas). They bought numerous private and very specialized collections and the collection also grew through gifts, donations and acquisitions from the annual budget.

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Published on on 2010/02/02. Tags: , , , .

Central banks and currencies of Africa

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This general website lists all the central banks and currencies of Africa.

Central banks and currencies

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Published on on 2010/01/22. Tags: , , .

Central banks and currencies of the Americas

Published by Ans ter Woerds in Americas.

This general website lists all the central banks and currencies of Central,  South and North American countries

Central banks and currencies

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Published on on 2010/01/24. Tags: , , , .

Central banks in Asia

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This general website links to the websites of central banks in Asia

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Published on on 2010/01/28. Tags: , .

China: China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation

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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.

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Published on on 2010/01/28. Tags: , , , , , .

China: China Numismatic Museum

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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.

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Published on on 2010/01/28. Tags: , , .

Cyprus: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

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The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is the home of the Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage. It was established in 1984. The foundation was born out of the Bank’s growing concern to assist in the rescue of the island’s cultural heritage and to promote the Hellenic culture of Cyprus at a professional and scholarly level. The philosophy and policy of the Foundation is to promote the Hellenic character of Cyprus, in as much as this is an island of the wider Hellenic world. In Februari 2000 the Greek authorities granted permission for a branch of the Cultural Foundation to be opened in Greece. The temporary premises are at the administrative headquarters of the Bank of Cyprus in Athens.

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Published on on 2010/02/02. Tags: , , , , .

Denmark: Royal Collection of Coins and Medals

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The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals is part of the National Museum, housed in the Prince’s Palace in Copenhagen. The collection consists of Danish coins from Viking times to the present and coins from ancient Rome and Greece, as well as examples of coinage and currencies of other cultures. The medal collection includes Danish gold medals from 1550-2000, as well as European portrait medaillons from the 1400s to today.

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Published on on 2010/02/02. Tags: , , .