The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismat
The Fishpool Hoard of mediaeval coins, northern England, late 15th century AD
Frontage of the British Museum
Gold coin of Croesus, Lydian, modern Turkey, c. 550 BC
Tetradrachm of Lysimachos with the head of Alexander, Greece, about 305–281 BC
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
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Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode was an English book and old master print collector, and a major benefactor of the British Museum.
British Museum Department of Coins and Medals
…has been able to expand its collection by purchase, donation and bequest. The department has benefited from the munificence of collectors such as Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, Sarah Banks, Edward Hawkins, Sir Alexander Cunningham and George Bleazby. A significant strength of the collection are British coins from all ages…
Etching of Charles Mordaunt Cracherode, 1818
The Three Crosses, drypoint by Rembrandt, 1653, State III of IV. Cracherode owned five impressions of this print, although not the one shown.
6 engraved gems set in rings that Cracherode donated to the British Museum