List of numismatic collections explained

Many history and cultural museums have large numismatic collections (coins, money, and tokens). Some museums are specifically dedicated to the history of money or coins, while others have major collections amongst other material. Many small museums often have important collections of coins from their local area or important archaeological sites.

Country	State/City	Institution	Numismatic collection
			data-sort-type="number"	Individual objects		data-sort-type="number"	Coins
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina
Armenia	Yerevan	History Museum of Armenia
Afghanistan	Kabul	Kabul Museum
Australia	Sydney	Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies		5,000
Australia	Sydney	Sir William Dixson numismatic collection	7,800
Austria		Kunsthistorisches Museum	600,000		^[1]
Azerbaijan		Azerbaijan State Museum of History		100,000	^[2]
Bahrain	Manama	Central Bank of Bahrain Currency Museum
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Bangladesh Bank Taka Museum
Belgium	Brussels	Brussels Coin Cabinet
Belgium	Brussels	National Bank of Belgium Museum
Brazil	Brasília
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	National Historical Museum
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center
Brazil	São Paulo	Instituto Itaú Cultural
	Bandar Seri Begawan	Currency Gallery Brunei Darussalam
Canada	Ottawa	Currency Museum Bank of Canada
China	Beijing	China Numismatic Museum^[3]
China	Shanghai	Shanghai Museum
Colombia	Bogotá	Museo Casa de Moneda
Costa Rica	San José	Numismatic Museum
Cuba	Havana	Numismatic Museum
Denmark	Copenhagen	National Museum of Denmark
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Casa de los Cinco Medallones (Numismatic museum of Santo Domingo)
France		Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale de France	500,000		^[4]
France	Paris	Monnaie de Paris
Georgia	Tbilisi	National Bank of Georgia
Germany	Berlin	Bode Museum	500,000 including; 25,000 medals 10,000 dies		^[5]
Germany	Dresden	Coin Cabinet in Royal Palace / Münzkabinett im Residenzschloss			^[6]
Germany	Frankfurt	Numismatic Museum/Münzkabinett Historisches Museum Frankfurt	150,000		^[7]
Germany	Jena	Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena
Germany	Munich	Staatliche Münzsammlung München
Germany	Münster	Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
Greece		Numismatic Museum of Athens	500,000		^[8]
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Museo Numismático de Guatemala
Hungary	Budapest	Visitor centre of the Hungarian National Bank
India	New Delhi	National Museum, New Delhi
India	Mumbai	Reserve Bank of India Museum
India	Chennai	Government Museum
India		Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute
India	Nashik	Indian Institute for Research in Numismatic Studies	175,000		^[9]
India		RBI Monetary Museum, Numismatic Museum, Fort Mumbai, [15]||||-| India||Shri Mudra Nidhi Coin Museum, Numismatic Museum||||-| India||Coin Museum Corp Bank, located at Udupi (Karnataka)[16]||||-| Indonesia|Jakarta|Bank Indonesia Museum Collection : Money||||-| Indonesia|Purbalingga|Museum Uang Purbalingga||||-||Tehran|Malek National Museum of Iran||||-||Tehran|Tehran Coin Museum|||^[10] |-||Tehran|Money Museum|||^[11] |-||Mashhad|Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum||||-||Kerman|Ganjali Khan Mint Museum||||-| Israel|Jerusalem|Israel Museum||||-| Italy|Florence|Museo della Moneta a Firenze||||-| Italy|Florence|National Archaeological Museum in Florence||||-| Italy|Lucca|Lucca Mint/Zecca di Lucca||||-| Italy|Naples|Naples National Archaeological Museum||||-| Italy|Rome|National Museum of Rome Crypta Balbi/Museo Nazionale Romano: Crypta Balbi||||-| Italy|Rome Banca d'Italia|School groups only and by appointment only. Banca d'Italia Museo della Moneta||||-| Japan|Tokyo|Bank of Japan Money – IMES BOJ Currency Museum||||-| Malaysia|Kuala Lumpur|Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery||||-| Mexico|Mexico City|Casa de Moneda de México||||-| Netherlands|Haarlem|Teylers Museum|17,000|8,500||-| Nepal|Kathmandu|National Museum of Nepal||||-||Skopje|Narodna Banka na Republika Severna Makedonija||||-| Norway|Oslo|Museum of Cultural History, Oslo|250,000||^[12] |-| Paraguay|Asunción|Numismatica Independencia||||-| Pakistan|Karachi|SBP Museum||||-| Pakistan||National Museum of Pakistan||58,000||-| Pakistan||Lahore Museum||||-| Pakistan||Peshawar Museum||8,625||-| Pakistan||Taxila Site Museum||||-| Peru|Lima|Museo Numismático del Perú||||-| Philippines|Manila|Museo ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas||||-| Poland|Warsaw|National Museum, Warsaw||||-| Poland|Kraków|The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum||||-| Portugal|Lisbon|Museu Numismático Português||||-| Qatar|Doha|Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum||||-| Romania|Bucharest|The Museum of the National Bank of Romania||||-||Saint Petersburg|Hermitage Museum|1,125,000||^[13] |-| Serbia|Belgrade|National Bank of Serbia (Народна Банка Србије)||||-| Singapore|Singapore|Singapore Coins and Notes Museum||||-| Slovakia|Košice|The Košice Gold Treasure Eastern Slovak Museum||||-| South Africa|Johannesburg|Absa Money Museum||||-| Spain|Madrid|Museo Casa de la Moneda ||||-| Spain|Barcelona|Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, numismatic collection||||-| Suriname|Paramaribo|Numismatic Museum of the Centrale Bank van Suriname||||-| Sweden|Stockholm|Royal Coin Cabinet|650,000||^[14] |-| Sweden|Uppsala|Uppsala University Coin Cabinet|40,000||^[15] |-| Switzerland|Zürich|Money Museum||||-| Thailand|Bangkok|Pavilion of Regalia, Royal Decorations and Coins e-museum||||-| Trinidad and Tobago|Port of Spain|Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago museum||||-| Turkey|Ankara|||||-| Turkmenistan||Saparamyrat Türkmenbaşy National Museum of Turkmenistan, Unknown Collection||||-| Turkmenistan|Ashgabat|Ashgabat National Museum of History, Unknown Collection||||-| Ukraine|Odesa|Odesa Numismatics Museum|3000|||-| Ukraine|Kyiv|National Museum of the History of Ukraine|120,000|100,000||-| Ukraine|Kamianets-Podilskyi|Museum of Money||||-| Ukraine|Ostroh|Museum of Money||||-| Ukraine|Dnipro|Museum of Ukrainian Coins|1100|||-| Ukraine|Odesa|Odesa Archaeological Museum|55,000|||-| Ukraine|Feodosia|Feodosia Money Museum|30,000|||-| Uzbekistan|Bukhara|Bukhara State Museum, Unknown Collection||||-| Uzbekistan||Central Bank of Uzbekistan, Minor Collection 400+ coins||||-| Uzbekistan|Shahrisabz|Shahrisabz Museum of History and Material Culture, Minor Collection||||-| Uzbekistan||State Museum of History of Uzbekistan. Unknown Collection||||-| United Kingdom||Ashmolean Museum|333,000|||-| United Kingdom||British Museum Department of Coins and Medals|1,000,000||^[16] |-| United Kingdom||Fitzwilliam Museum|200,000||^[17] |-| United Kingdom||Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery|70,000||^[18] |-| United Kingdom||Manchester Museum|50,000+ including; 3,000 medals 4,000 communion token |40,000|^[19] |-| United Kingdom||Royal Mint Museum|140,000+ including; 80,000 coins 12,000 medals 8,000 volumes 30,000 master tools and dies 10,000 photographs and negatives |80,000|^[20] ^[21] |-| United Kingdom||World Museum|18,000 including; 1,400 medals 3,000 tokens & misc |7,450|^[22] |-| United States|Colorado Springs, Colorado|American Numismatic Association Money Museum|275,000||^[23] |-| United States|New Haven, Connecticut|Yale University Art Gallery Numismatic Collection|120,000||^[24] |-| United States|Washington, D.C.|Smithsonian Institution National Numismatic Collection|1,600,000||^[25] ^[26] |-| United States|Kansas City, Missouri|The Money Museum||||-| United States|Cleveland, Ohio|Learning Center and Money Museum||||-| United States|Manchester, New Hampshire|America's Credit Union Museum||||-| United States|Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections|100,000||^[27] |-| United States|New York City, New York|American Numismatic Society|600,000||^[28] |-| United States|New York City, New York|Museum of American Finance||||-| United States|Omaha, Nebraska|Durham Museum||||-| United States|Chapel Hill, North Carolina|North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library|10,000||^[29] |-| United States|Cleveland, Ohio|Learning Center and Money Museum||||-||Vatican City|Philatelic and Numismatic Museum/ Museo Filatelico e Numismatico||||} References

Notes and References

1. Web site: Coin Collection. Kunsthistorisches Museum. 24 June 2017.
2. Web site: Numizmatikа Elmi Fоnd Şöbəsi. Azerbaijan State Museum of History. Azerbaijani. Department of Numismatics. 24 June 2017.
3. http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20110527/105007.shtml Museum Special: China Numismatic Museum CCTV News – CNTV English
4. Web site: History of the collection. Cabinet des Médailles. 24 June 2017.
5. Web site: About the collections. euromuse.net. 24 June 2017.
6. "Münzkabinett". Coin Cabinet in Royal Palace.
7. Web site: Collection - Numismatics. Historisches Museum Frankfurt. 10 April 2019.
8. Web site: Numismatic Museum Of Athens. athenskey.com. 24 June 2017.
9. Web site: Indian Institute for Research in Numismatic Studies. inhcrf.org. 24 June 2017.
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11. [:fa:تماشاگه پول]
12. Web site: The Coin Cabinet. Museum of Cultural History, Oslo. 10 April 2019.
13. Web site: The Numismatic Department. hermitagemuseum.org. 24 June 2017.
14. Web site: Welcome to The Royal Coin Cabinet - National Museum of Economy. Royal Coin Cabinet. 23 June 2017.
15. Web site: Uppsala University Coin Cabinet. Uppsala University. 9 April 2019.
16. Web site: Department of Coins and Medals. britishmuseum.org. 24 June 2017.
17. Web site: Coins as an Historical Source. Fitzwilliam Museum. 24 June 2017.
18. Web site: Coins and Medals. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. 24 June 2017.
19. Web site: The Manchester Museum. moneyandmedals.org.uk. 24 June 2017.
20. Web site: The collection today. Royal Mint Museum. 23 June 2017.
21. Web site: Inventory project update. Royal Mint Museum. 23 June 2017.
22. Web site: Numismatics. World Museum. 24 June 2017.
23. Web site: Explore The ANA Vault Today. American Numismatic Association Money Museum. 24 June 2017.
24. Web site: Numismatics at the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University. 11 September 2019.
25. Web site: The National Numismatic Collection. Smithsonian Institution. 24 June 2017.
26. Web site: The Collection. Smithsonian Institution. 24 June 2017.
27. Web site: Princeton University Numismatic Collection. Princeton University. 11 September 2019.
28. Web site: American Numismatic Society. American Numismatic Society. 24 June 2017.
29. Web site: Historic Moneys in the North Carolina Collections. University of North Carolina. 11 September 2019.