Ashmolean Museum Heberden Coin Room

Biography 'The Heberden Coin Room houses a systematic and comprehensive collection of some three hundred thousand coins and medals. It has an academic staff of seven and is a leading international centre for teaching and research in numismatics and monetary history. The collection goes back to the seventeenth century, although the Coin Room itself was opened only in 1922. It has been formed by combining the original holdings of the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum with over sixty former private and college collections.' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/03/2007]

Biography References http://www.ashmolean.org/departments/heberdencoinroom/

County No counties listed

Relationship PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1961

Date made around 1800-1900

Dates active to present

Donated around 1962

English collections Netted purse

Institution Yes

Oxford based Yes

English collection size 1

Connections John Maunsell Frampton May