Numismatics Museum in Moscow: a unique collection of coins

At the present time private museums are being opened more often, galleries whose founders make their collections public. One example is the foundation of a numismatic museum in the capital. About the great interest of specialists in this event is evidenced by the fact that a trustee council was established at the establishment, which included the heads of museums with large numismatic collections (M. Piotrovsky, E. Gagarin, M. Loshak).

Exhibits of the exhibition

The opening of the International Moscow Numismatic Museum was a landmark event of last year. This event attracted not only the Russian, but also the international public. The collection presented to the court of the socialists, scientists, and, finally, the interested public, is unique: it contains coins from antiquity to the Soviet period. Among the exhibits are not only rubles, kopecks, chervontsi, but also ancient money of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages

Numismatics as an auxiliary historical discipline

Numismatics is one of the auxiliary historical disciplines that studies coins: their origin, dating, external signs and so on. This section of science is one of the main along with paleography, chronology, sphragistics. The study of the monetary system allows us to analyze not only the economic situation in this or that city, the principality or the state, but also to show the political development of the country, as chasing its own coin is an indicator of the wealth and power of the ruler. The study of coins is the object of serious research by domestic and foreign historians. The main source of materials is the excavation of treasures, in which in excess you can find the money of various states.

Exhibitions of the Moscow Museum of Numismatics

Serious scientific interest in monetary units arose in Russia in the XVIII century, together with the emergence of historical science as an independent discipline. Since then, Russian scientists have accumulated vast experience in researching coins, collecting and processing this valuable source.

In Moscow, a museum of numismatics was opened in October 2015 (in the restored Chambers of the Zinoviev-Yusupovs of the 17th century), which should be regarded as a new stage in the study of monetary units of different countries. Its founder is V. Alekperov, President of OAO "Lukoil", whose collection formed the foundation of the fund. The numismatics museum in Moscow includes not only an exhibition hall, but a library, a conference hall, a Coin Collectors' Club, which allows not only specialists, but also interested persons to get acquainted with the exhibits and get all the necessary information.

Coins of antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Moscow Museum of Numismatics

The International Numismatics Museum in Moscow includes a collection of about five thousand units. Alekperov collected them for fourteen years, so that in the new museum you can see a lot of interesting things. At the exhibition, it is worth paying attention to coins of ancient times: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Byzantine Empire (total about three hundred). The Middle Ages here are represented by thalers, Russian history - five hundred coins of tsarist Russia, as well as money of the Soviet period. The oldest specimen is a hectare with a picture of a cock from the city of Fokey, dating back to the 5th century BC. E.

The museum of numismatics in Moscow stores medieval thalers. The most interesting of these are Bavarian coins.

Russian money XVII - XVIII Centuries in the numismatic museum

Of the Russian coins should be allocated a gold penny Vladislav Zhigimontovich, the son of the Polish King Sigismund III, who under the contract near Smolensk on February 4, 1610 was to adopt Orthodoxy and become a Russian Tsar. After the deposition of Vasily Shuisky in the summer of the same year, the Moscow government - the Semiboyarchy - recognized Vladislav as king and even issued a coin on his behalf. The above-mentioned gold penny of the Polish prince testifies to Poland's claims to Moscow Rus.

The museum of numismatics in Moscow also stores curious chervontsi coinage of the 1700s. This was the time of the reign of Peter I, who was interested in renewing the economic system in Russia. The new coins began his reign - an example of the care of the king about the finances of the country. There is also a trial ruble of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 1756.

Coins of the Tsarist period in the Moscow Museum of Numismatics

In addition to the above images, the collection includes a set of money coinage of the XIX century. The numismatics museum in Moscow keeps platinum coins from the reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855). The samples date back to 1839 - the time of the reforms of the Minister of Finance EF Kankrin. The nominal values - three, six and twelve rubles - are the most valuable source of the history of monetary reform in the late 1839-1843 empire.

Undoubtedly, such an exhibition of the collection will attract not only specialist scientists, but also a mass inhabitant. The fact that private individuals are engaged in collecting antiquities and presenting them as exhibits shows that historical science is gaining popularity in Russian society.

That's what a museum of numismatics is in Moscow. Address: Bolshoy Afanasyevsky lane, house 24. The institution conducts lectures on which scientists talk about exhibits, and the Numismat Club proves the development of interest in coins among non-professionals.