International Numismatic Libraries' Network
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 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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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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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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The Cabinet des Monnaies et Médailles de Marseille has a rich cultural and scientific collection of coins and medals. The quality and rareness of many objects makes it one of the most important in France.
Founded during the French Revolution, the numismatic cabinet collects in antiquities and medieval coins and medals, and has got special collections, donated by collectors.
In 1715 the margrave Karl-Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach had founded his new city of residence. His planned baroque city with the castle in the centre is an example of a perfect image of absolutist power. The supremacy of the dynasty of Baden ended with the defeat of the German empire in the First World War. Grand duke Friedrich II abdicated on November 22, 1918, and left his residence.
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The Kreissparkasse Köln as one of the biggest savings banks in Germany, decided in 1954 to build up a Museum of History of Money.
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The Coin Cabinet of the German National Museum could not build upon an old royal collection, like most important coin collections did. It only started collecting after the foundation of the museum in 1852. In the beginning the collection developed in a rather disorderly way, and there was a limit to the eras from which coins were collected. Around 1870 the Cabinet started collecting contemporary coins and medals. However, the regional boundary was kept, like for all collections in the museum.
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