Numismatic Museum of Athens

Numismatic Museum, Athens

Iliou Melathron, the former house of Heinrich Schliemann
Location within Athens
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Location	Panepistimiou Street, Athens, Greece
Coordinates	37°58′40.08″N 23°44′7.44″E / 37.9778000°N 23.7354000°E / 37.9778000; 23.7354000
Type	Numismatic museum
Director	Dr. Georgios Kakavas
Public transit access	Syntagma station Panepistimio station
Website	www.nummus.gr

The Numismatic Museum of Athens (Greek: Νομισματικό Μουσείο Αθηνών) is one of the most important museums in Greece and it houses a collection of over 500,000 coins, medals, gems, weights, stamps and related artefacts from 1400BC to modern times.^[1] The collection constitutes one of the richest in the world, paralleled by those of the British Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Bode Museum in Berlin, and the American Numismatic Society in New York.^[1] The museum itself is housed in the mansion of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, formally known as Iliou Melathron (Greek: Ιλίου Μέλαθρον, "Palace of Ilion").^[1]