Cities and bartering

The starting point for this tour around the Museum is the iconographic and semantic depiction of cities in some of the collection’s coins and banknotes. Passing through Athens, Sybaris and Syracuse, Minas Gerais, Hamburg, Ceuta and Florence we find out more about some of the urban centres famous for their economic power, for the role they played in history, or because they witnessed significant events. This journey also looks into the cities that had the extraordinary privilege of minting coinage.