Coins and Medals
Alongside the excellent series of Classical coins, including the Newnham Davis Greek coin collection, there are many commemorative and prize medals, trade tokens, jetons, beggars’ badges and British military medals. The wide-ranging series of Scottish-minted coins starts with an early 12th century silver penny of David I and continues to 1709.
There are also several thousand coins from the Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen hoard, over 1,000 medieval European hammered coins, 1,500 British milled coins and 9,000 coins from India, China and elsewhere, with almost 10,000 communion tokens from most parishes in Scotland and elsewhere in the British Empire.
