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A personal collection · An unfolding history

History, held
in your hand.

From Alexander’s world to Rome and its long afterlife. Explore the people, places, and ideas behind five remarkable objects.

Explore the collection Why these coins?

The Greek beginning01 / 05

Alexander III
Miletos · c. 325–323 BCSilver drachm
17 mm · 4.22 g

FIVE COINS. FIVE CHAPTERS.c. 325 BC — AD 1570A physical roadmap through history.

Open the cabinet

Every coin has a story.

Start with an object that catches your eye. Discover its symbols, its moment in history, and why it belongs here.

c. 325–323 BC · Silver

Alexander III

Lifetime silver drachm · Miletos

Herakles, Zeus, and the name of Alexander.

c. 16/15–10 BC · Bronze

Augustus & Agrippa

Crocodile bronze · Nemausus

The defeat of Egypt, remembered in Nîmes.

c. AD 130–133 · Silver

Hadrian

RESTITVTORI GALLIAE · silver denarius

The emperor, the provinces, and a helping hand.

AD 331–332 · Copper

Rome, from Arles

VRBS ROMA · commemorative nummus

The she-wolf, the twins, and a city we know.

AD 1570 · Silver

Köln · 1570

Maximilian II · silver taler

A city’s identity within an imperial world.

5 coins in view

Follow the thread

Across nineteen centuries.

The Greek world. The rise and transformation of Rome. The lasting appeal of its imperial idea. These are the first chapters of a much longer story.

Why this collection exists

Something real
to pass on.

A coin makes a distant century tangible. Turn it over, notice a face or a symbol, and a question becomes a story.

This collection brings together a love of history, travel, and beautiful objects. Rome is its centre of gravity; the wider journey reaches into the Greek world and onward through Europe’s changing empires.

It is being built patiently, to share with the next generation. The empty spaces in the case leave room for the chapters still to come.

“We do not buy the type.
We buy the right example.”

A short introduction opens each story. Look closer for the symbols, read the history, then unfold the collector record for the details and sources.

The collection’s open blue velvet case, photographed with its first three coins and room to grow — The physical collection
A small cabinet of history.
An early photograph of the case. A single QR code in the lid brings visitors here, where each object has room for its full story.
View the lid card & QR