Museum opened in 1834 housing a collection of coins & medals from antiquity through the modern era The Numismatic Museum owns 500,000 acquisitions -mainly coins, but also medals, lead seals, seal stones, weights, obols and talents- dating from the 14th century BC to modern days.
The richest collections are those of ancient coins, dating from the 6th century BC till the 5th century AD. These are the coins of the city-states, kings and rulers of the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, the Roman Republic, the Roman emperors and the provinces of the Roman Empire.
Equally important are the collections of Byzantine and Medieval coins, dating from the 6th to the 15th century. They comprise a large number of coins of the Byzantine Empire with representative issues of all emperors and mints, issues of states and rulers of the Medieval West and East, as well as issues of the Western states founded in Greece from the 13th century onwards.
The period from the 15th to the 20th century is represented by coins of most countries of the modern and contemporary world. Emphasis is placed on the coins that circulated in Greece during this period, such as coins of the Ottoman Empire, coins of European states and empires, as well as coins and banknotes of the modern Greek state.
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