More Rome Museum Photos
itsnotjustme
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From the National Museum of Rome.
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The ancients look great. Do you have another shot of those??
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I really can't remember.... there were thousands of coins displayed.
That is most of the photos I took. I have some others on the video.
<< <i>Did the museum include any Italian coins with Il Duce on them? I saw a few of these at El Rastro in Madrid thirty years ago, all of them were butt ugly, and was wondering if they were all like this. >>
I have seen most of the coins and stamps produced during the "Ventennio" (1923 through 1943 and then 1944-1945) at the National Museum in Rome. I have a fair number myself that an aunt of mine gave me some years back.
I know that I do see such coins offered on EBay from time to time.
Generally Italian museums will have exhibits concerning most historical events. There are limits in all of Europe relating to the use of outlawed political symbols (the Littoral Fasces, the Swastika, etc.) for current political purposes. Otherwise there will be exhibits concerning just about every time period you can think of and the only limitations will be time and space.
My only complaint is that while most of the main Italian museums have exhibits with signs in Italian and in English not all do. Agreed that Italian is the language of the land but there are so many foreign visitors that by using bilingual signs more visitors would be able to benefit. Things have improved enormously during the past 35 years as in the 1970's there were hardly any bilingual signs in Italian museums at all.
I know that the numismatic exhibit at the Sforza Castle in Milan is dedicated to coinage from pre-Roman and Medieval coinage through 1945. It is not open to the general public (mainly for security reasons). It is possible to arrange a visit indicating the time period. The political aspects relating to the time of coinage have no bearing whatsoever. I have done this a few times and it was very interesting as one of the collections is the City of Milan collection that was started in 1805 and includes coinage from 1450 through 1920.
I guess security is becoming more and more tight in such museums. I went to the ANA in Colorado Springs last July where I did see the Bass collection as well as a number of other rarities but their 1804 dollar was "in the vault for security reasons".
By the way, itsnotjustme, how did you get away with taking those pictures? I seem to always have to leave my cameras behind during such visits.
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