Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet, National museum of economy in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Economy Museum is located in Stockholm and displays a large collection of coins, banknotes, medals, and financial documents from various periods and countries. The exhibits come from roughly 650,000 objects that show the history of money and finance.
The collection began around 1572, when King John III's chancellor Rasmus Ludvigsson gathered old Swedish coins during Sweden's dispute with Denmark over the right to use the three crowns in the coat of arms. In 1697 the collection was rescued from the royal castle fire and stored in the Statskontoret until 1727, when it was merged with the Antikvitetsarkivet's finds and named the Royal Coin Cabinet. It moved to the History Museum's building on Narvavägen in 2019.
The name Kungliga Myntkabinettet, used from the 1720s, survives in the museum's identity even after its 2020 rebranding as Ekonomiska museet. The collection began around 1572 when Rasmus Ludvigsson gathered old Swedish coins for Johan III's chancery during Sweden's dispute with Denmark over the three crowns. Visitors can see the Lohe treasure, a coin hoard found in Gamla stan, and a Bitcoin ATM kept as an example of newer monetary exchange.
The museum shares the building of the Swedish History Museum at Narvavägen 13–17 on Östermalm, so the two collections can be visited in one stop. The entrance is reached from Narvavägen, and the coin hoard register is available to researchers and the public alike. Allow time for both museums rather than the coin collection alone.
The museum preserves some of the world's earliest banknotes, issued in 1661 by a Stockholm bank. It also displays copper coins from Queen Christina's era that are notable for their extraordinary weight.
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