Historisches Museum Frankfurt
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Saalhof 1
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69 21235154
Christina.bach@stadt-frankfurt.de
https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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History
The coin collection of Historisches Museum Frankfurt is unique in Germany. Greek and Roman, medieval and modern issues, medals and banknotes give an overview of the development of our money up to the euro.
It all began in 1749, the year Goethe was born. His widow, Elisabeth Katharina von Barckhaus, bequeathed 3,296 Greek and Roman coins to the city. Today, through acquisitions and donations, the collection has grown to more than 150,000 objects. The Frankfurt Department contains almost all coins and banknotes minted in Frankfurt. They range from the introduction of the pfennig in Frankfurt by Charlemagne to the introduction of the euro. There is also a large collection of medals relating to Frankfurt events and people. There is a particular focus on the medals minted for the Frankfurt imperial coronations and the commemorative pieces for Johann Wolfgang Goethe. A large number of dies illustrate the production process of Frankfurt coins and medals.
The Collection
This important coin collection contains coins from all German mints. Acquired in 1939 by the Frankfurt businessman Ernst Lejeune, it was the most important private collection of German coins in the world. The focus is on the Rhine-Main area with excellent coin series from Hesse, Hanau, Friedberg, Mainz, Solms and Sayn. The paper money collection consists of banknotes from the German Empire, as well as emergency and inflation notes from federal states, municipalities and companies. The everyday culture section includes stamps, tokens, decorations, medals, buttons and pins.
Activities
The current theme of the coin collection is Frankfurt as a European financial centre. This role goes back to the Frankfurt Trade Fair, founded in 1241, and the coronations of emperors in Frankfurt, as well as in the role of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the financial innovations of the last few centuries.
The Frankfurt Numismatic Society (Frankfurter Numismatische Gesellschaft) meets monthly at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, which also hosts conferences of the Society for International Monetary History (Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte).
