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Museum of American Finance - www.financialhistory.org/
The Museum of American Finance, the nation's only independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and the democratic free market tradition which has made New York City the financial capital of the world. Founded in 1988, the Museum was chartered as an educational institution. Today, financial education is at the core of the Museum’s mission and its public programs and services.

National Museum Wales - www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/archaeology/numismatics/
The numismatic collection comprises coins, tokens, medals and related objects. It is wide-ranging, from ancient times to the present, with five main areas of strength: celtic coins, Greek and Roman coins, coins of England and the British Isles, tokens, banknotes and 'paranumismatica', primarily Welsh, and commemorative medals and awards, especially relating to Wales and the exploits of Welsh people. There are also small comparative collections of European, British Colonial and World coins.

The Ashmolean Museum - www.ashmolean.org/departments/heberdencoinroom/
The Heberden Coin Room houses a systematic and comprehensive collection of some three hundred thousand coins and medals. It has an academic staff of seven and is a leading international centre for teaching and research in numismatics and monetary history. The collection goes back to the seventeenth century, although the Coin Room itself was opened only in 1922. It has been formed by combining the original holdings of the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum with over sixty former private and college collections.

The Fitzwilliam Museum - www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/
The Department of Coins and Medals embraces money in many different forms, from all parts of the world and spanning ancient to modern times, as well as medals since their origin in the Renaissance. With its rich collections and library, the Department is a centre for research and teaching in numismatics.

The Hunterian Museum - www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/museum/coins/coin_index.shtml
The core of the collection remains the Cabinet of Dr. William Hunter, probably the finest ever put together by a private individual. Hunter's own account book shows that he began to collect coins about 1770 and over the next 13 years, until his death in 1783, he spent a fortune of over £22,000 in this endeavour. The Numismatic Collections contain some 70,000 coins, tokens, and medals. The main part consists of 12,000 ancient Greek coins, dating from the 6th century BC. The cities of the Greek mainland and overseas, especially in Southern Italy and Sicily, are well represented with fine runs from Athens, Corinth, Tarentum, Syracuse and Carthage to name but a few. Equally the gold and silver issues of Philip II and Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) are numerous, along with many of the fine portrait issues of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies.

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