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MUSEO NUMISMATICO DELLA ZECCA

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The Mint Museum consists of approximately 20,000 publications: coins, medals, coinage and sketches in wax.
The coins include a rich collection of Italian and foreign countries from the middle ages to the present day and an interesting nucleus of studies for coinage, and coins.
The collection of medals include three main areas of particular historic and artistic interest. The first consists of the Pontifical medals (1913), the second group consists of the religious medals, also called of devotion, of the 18th and 19th centuries,
the third group includes the medals of the 20th century, works by Italian and foreign artists. In this group there are also numerous works from donations, including the collection of medals melted down by Orlando Paladino Orlandini (1905-1986).
The "core" uncirculated "objects" includes coin and punches the Papal collection and those used for devotional medals.
The Museum has a collection of sketches in wax for medals and cameos, auxiliary material to produce works that takes on the value and interest of realization. The largest group (425 cere) is represented by the work of Benedetto Pistrucci (1784-1855). Roman engraver played the majority of their business in London at the Royal Mint, where he made the pound of gold which the museum displays the original model. They are also exposed waxes Joseph (1808-1877) and Francesco Bianchi (1842-1918), father and son, the Papal Mint engravers in the second half of the nineteenth century.
 
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