The Princeton University Numismatic Collection contains coins, medals and tokens, paper money, casts, exonumia – about 70,000 items in all. The collection is housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the Firestone Library on Princeton’s campus.
The Platt and DeWald numismatic collections, formerly house in the Princeton University Art Museum, have been transferred to Firestone Library for cataloguing with the other collections of the University. The Platt collection is rich in Roman aes grave and other Republican coins and in silver issues of Augustus and Hadrian, as well as portrait coins of the Renaissance, while the DeWald collection has strong holdings in Roman sestertii, all areas that complement well the existing Firestone collections.
History on the numismatic collection
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