Ground-plan of the 2nd Floor of the Iliou Melathron
(Press to tour the rooms or the 1st and 2nd floors)


3D Virual reality objects
Virtual touch of selectively objects of the exhibition

Coinage in the Modern and Contemporary World

Since the 16th century, the creation of great commercial powers in Europe and the abundance in precious metals set the conditions for issuing and circulating many and big gold and silver coins. It has been a long way from the coinages of the great European states and their colonies, the issues of the Numismatic Unions and the independent countries to nickel coins and paper notes up until the 2nd half of the 20th century and plastic and immaterial money. Vital information on commerce and transactions in Greece from the 15th century to the 20th century is given by coins of the great European powers and the Ottoman empire circulating in the region.