Wednesday, December 7, 2016

PALACE OF THE BANK OF ITALY

PALAZZO DELLA BANCA D'ITALIA
1887/1892 Gaetano Koch (1849/1910)
Offices of the senior management of the bank, some departments of the central administration and “Paolo Baffi” library
ROOM OF THE COUNCIL
Frescoes by Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936)
Museo della Moneta
Museum of Coins
Selection of about 40 tablets of Mesopotamian origin. Studies of these tablets proved that from the third millennium BC silver and gold were used as means of payment, measure of value and store of wealth
About 800 coins in gold, silver, copper and alloy from the ancient Greek period to modern times, including “Silver Stater of King Croesus” 561/546 BC
450 notes and paper documents
ODDO COLLECTION with over 3,800 pieces of gold, silver, copper and alloy from emissions of southern Italy and Sicily referring to the period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to modern age

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