{"id":6839,"date":"2024-07-03T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/?post_type=magazin&#038;p=6839"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T07:41:15","slug":"the-coin-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/magazine\/the-coin-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"The coin cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"section__text section__text--lead section__text--center intro-animation intro-animation--bottom\"><h1>The coin<br \/>\ncabinet<\/h1>\n<\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"section__text section__text--center intro-animation intro-animation--bottom\"><p><strong>About the coin cabinet<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Swiss National Museum\u2019s coin cabinets are located in the National Museum Zurich and house over 100,000 items, including coins and medals as well as banknotes, securities, credit cards and coin dies. The collection ranges from Celtic coinage to current coins and banknotes. The museum is the only institution that systematically collects coins from the whole of Switzerland. With around 30,000 pieces, the Swiss coin collection is probably the largest collection of Swiss coinage in existence. The aim and purpose of the collection is to document and research the history of Swiss coins and money, in close collaboration with art and cultural history researchers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online collection<br \/>\n<\/strong>At present, 15,810 of the more than 30,000 objects in the numismatic collection can be viewed online. More items are being digitalised every month.<\/p>\n<p>To the online collection:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sammlung.nationalmuseum.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sammlung.nationalmuseum.ch\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AURA Foto Film Verlag GmbH<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"section__text section__text--center intro-animation intro-animation--bottom\"><p><strong>About the more than 30,000 objects in the collection<br \/>\n<\/strong>The majority of these 30,000 objects are coins from Swiss mints \u2013 cities, dioceses, abbeys and cantons \u2013 and from the Swiss Confederation. These are supplemented by:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 coins minted by the Celts who settled in Switzerland and by the Merovingian and Frankish rulers who minted in the area that is now Switzerland;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 a representative universal collection consisting of important coin series from northern Italy, France and southern<br \/>\nGermany from the early modern period (16th\u201318th century);<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 the Roman coin collection from Rheinau Abbey;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 the coins found in the Canton of Zurich;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 special collections such as the personal collection of the famous Schwyz medallist J. C. Hedlinger and the important collection of Swiss medals from Rudolf Isenschmid and Gerold Meyer von Knonau.<\/p>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6839","magazin","type-magazin","status-publish","hentry","thema-interesting-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazin\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazin"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazin\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazin\/6839\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-dev.sondermuenze.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}