About Us
About Us
Salzburg Museum – Coins, Medals and Seals
The Salzburg Museum is the most important museum for the history of art and cultural history of Salzburg, supported by the Land and City of Salzburg. Soon after the museum was founded in 1834, numismatics became an important focus of the collection. The collection of coins, medals and seals today comprises more than 60,000 objects.
Coins and medals of the formerly independent (Prince-)Archbishopric of Salzburg and its suffragan bishoprics build the historic collection’s core. In addition, the Salzburg Museum houses a significant collection of religious medals, related to local productions, venerations, or regional finds.
Since more recent years, an important area of the collection are spectacular Salzburg coin hoards: among them the most extensive medieval coin hoard in Austria, composed of more than 28,300 silver coins of the 13th century, struck in mints from Salzburg to Venice, Bavaria to Hungary. Or the coin hoard of Werfen in Pongau, 771 gold and 249 silver coins from various mints in Europe, produced before 1540. The approx. 1020 coins were clipped, about 900 grams of clippings were discovered with the coin hoard and preserved. Especially among the coins from France, Italy, Bavaria, and Austria significant rarities are to be noted.
In addition, the collection houses a large number of banknotes, paper money and stock certificates. One focus here is on local “Notgeld” or necessity money issues around 1920 and Austrian banknotes.
Moreover, minting tools for coins and medals, but also seals and seal impressions are kept within the collection: Archiepiscopal seals from the 11th century to recent times as well as guild and administrative seals are included.
Due to almost two hundred years of collecting and numerous finds, the Salzburg Museum is now in possession of some of the rarest testimonies and unique specimens of a pan-European history of coins and money as well as sigillography.
The Digital Coin Cabinet of the Salzburg Museum
Project management: Alexandra Hylla
Editorial: Alexandra Hylla
Programming: Jürgen Freundel, Ilmenau
Academic Staff and responsibilities
Alexandra Hylla
With the collaboration of Simon Kuhn.
Photography: Salzburg Museum (see each object entry's print view for details).
Layout: Goldland Media
Maps: Goldland Media, Dr. Jürgen Freundel
This project is in cooperation with the Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin: Coin database and online catalogue based on https://ikmk.smb.museum/ with shared data administration for the the semantic web.
Contact
