Money and medals

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Money and medals

The central part of the permanent display of money and medals consists of 30 vertically positioned frames, three of them per a swivel . In them only a small part of the rich numismatic collection is displayed. Standing laterally, next to the sources of light, it is necessary to turn the frames so that one could best perceive the beauty and variety of the money and medals. In the first six frames we find displayed Old-Greek money classified and ordered according to various Greek regions along the Mediterranean.

The oldest Greek money was minted at the time of the famous King Croesus in the state of Lydia in Asia Minor in the course of the 6th century B.C. Money that could be classified among the finest are the silver coins of the polis, ...