About Us
About Us
The University of Greifswald’s Academic Coin Cabinet comprises 1,200 coins and medals that date from antiquity up until the start of the 20th Century. The core collections are bracteates from the 12th/13th Centuries, coins from German territories of the early modern period and Pomeranian medals awarded for science, art, and history.
The collection was started in the first half of the 19th Century. In the beginning, it was part of “Greifswald’s Collection of Patriotic Antiquities”, that had been extended and maintained, in particular, by Theodor Pyl (1826-1904) from 1865 onwards. The ancient historian Walter Kolbe (1876-1943) established the “Academic Coin Cabinet” in 1921. Kolbe, his successor, Josef Keil (1878-1963), and the medieval historian Adolf Hofmeister (1883-1956), who took over responsibility for the coin cabinet in 1927, developed the collection into a teaching and display collection - with a special focus on items from antiquity and the Middle Ages. The collection was relocated to Schleswig-Holstein in 1945, where it suffered severe losses due to theft (including all of the gold and nearly all of the large silver coins). The remnants of the collection did not return to Greifswald until 1989. The Kustodie (University Collections) assumed responsibility for the collection in 2018.
Further coin collections belonging to the University of Greifswald are held as part of the Gustaf Dalman Collection (on the history of Palestine), the Victor Schultze Collection (on Christian archaeology) and in the collection of prehistoric antiquities.
Academic Coin Cabinet:
Project management and editing: Dr. Thilo Habel
Academic staff: PD Dr. Joachim Krüger, Florian Krüger
Photos: Thilo Habel (copyright information in the print preview of every individual object).
Gustaf Dalman Collection:
Project management and editing: Dr. Karin Berkemann
Academic staff: Dr. Karin Berkemann (with collaboration of Marielis Adami and Hannah Siry)
Photos: Karin Berkemann (copyright information in the print preview of every individual object).
Victor Schultze Collection:
Project management and editing: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuhn
Academic staff and photos: Diana Grethlein
Programming: Dr. Jürgen Freundel, Ilmenau
Layout: Goldland Media
Maps: Goldland Media, Dr. Jürgen Freundel
This project has been realised in cooperation with the Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin: The coin database and online catalogue use the template provided by http://ikmk.smb.museum and the files and master data are administered as part of the NUMiD-Network for the semantic web.
