British Museum Department of Coins and Medals
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 numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. The collection spans the history of coinage from its origins in the 7th century BC to the present day, and is representative of both Eastern and Western numismatic traditions.
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 305-281BC
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge.
Aerial view of the British Museum
The Great Court was developed in 2001 and surrounds the original Reading Room.
Sir Hans Sloane
Montagu House, c. 1715