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The collection of the museum contains 600,000 objects, mainly coins but also medals, standard masses, dies, stamps and others, from the 14th century BC until modern times. The collection is arranged in such a way so as to follow the history of coinage. The museum holds a very important collection of
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The use of the building as a courthouse caused much damage. After the building was chosen to house the Numismatic Museum, it underwent a major renovation under which the floor mosaics and the murals were restored. Finally, the numismatic collection was inaugurated in the partly restored building in
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and it houses a collection of over 500,000 coins, medals, gems, weights, stamps and related artefacts from 1400BC to modern times. The collection constitutes one of the richest in the world, paralleled by those of the
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where the collection was first exhibited. In 1946, the collection was moved to the National Archaeological Museum. The organization of the museum became twice independent, in 1893 and 1965.
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The Iliou Melathron was granted in order to house the collection in 1984, and after a major renovation it finally opened in 1998.
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The museum houses a library of 12,000 books specialized in the study of coinage. There is also a conservation laboratory.
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while the rest comes from the initial collection of Aegina, recent excavations in mainland Greece and donations.
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The first attempts at coin collecting by the state began shortly after the independence of Greece in
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of Athens. Helmeted head of Athena right / ΑΘΕ (ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ – of Athenians), owl standing right
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coins from the 6th century BC until the 5th century CE like those from the Greek
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A large portion of the collection is constituted by coins that were found in
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and Medieval collections from Western Europe, the East and the
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1998 while the whole collection became viewable in 2007.
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Iliou Melathron, the former house of Heinrich Schliemann
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Numismatic Museum of Athens is located in Athens
Panepistimiou Street
Athens
Greece
Coordinates
37°58′40.08″N 23°44′7.44″E / 37.9778000°N 23.7354000°E / 37.9778000; 23.7354000
Athens Metro
Athens Metro Line 2
Athens Metro Line 3
Syntagma station
Athens Metro
Athens Metro Line 2
Panepistimio station
www.nummus.gr
Greek
Greece
British Museum
London
Bibliothèque Nationale
Paris
State Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg
Bode Museum
Berlin
American Numismatic Society
New York
Heinrich Schliemann
Greek
Ilion

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