Collection Unit "A"

Antique coins collection (Greek, Celtic, Roman, and Byzantine coins)

The coins of Celtic and other protohistoric peoples who used to live in the Kárpát basin make up a unit of nearly 6000 coins. Most of these are Celtic coins but a significant part of it consists of Hungarian coins made after Byzantine stamps. A special unit of the coins collection is the Greek collection of 10000 coins. The most important pieces of the collection are the coins that came to Hungary through trade relations and were found later. However, with the help of donations and systematic expansion now every significant group of Greek numismatics is represented by a serie.

The smaller part of the Roman collection counting nearly 70000 coins is from the period of the republic, while the larger part is made up of coins from the imperial period. The most valuable part of the collection is the finding of Szikáncs consisting of 1439 golden soldiuses.

Managers: Edit Cs. Farkas and dr. Melinda Torbágyi