NUMISMATIC COLLECTION
ALPHA BANK
NUMISMATIC COLLECTION SECTION

The Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection is accommodated in the central quarters of the Bank, in the centre of Athens, with a small exhibition room.
The primary aim of the Collection is to highlight the widespread extent and influence of the Greek civilisation on the ancient world. Besides the wide range of coinage of cities, kings, confederacies and tribes of the strictly Greek region, the Bank collection also accommodates coins of Celtes originating from today’s Britain, France and the Danube region, which are mainly imitations of the pieces issued by Philip II and Alexander III (the Great) of Macedonia. There are also numismatic issues from Ethiopia by the kings Ezana and Aphilas, who, in the 4th century AD, inscribe on their coins their name and title in Greek. Even from the distant Bactria and India, the farthest point in the east that a Greek army has ever advanced, the collection displays a nearly complete range of all the kings: from the extremely rare didrachm of Sophytes and coins issued by Euthydemos, Eucratides and Heliocles to coins by Menander, Hermaios, Razouvoulas and many more. These issues are showing the long-lasting and deep influence that Greek culture exerted on distant lands, even though they had very little direct contact with the Greeks.
The Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection welcomes researchers, students as well as the general public that is interested in learning history through these coins and admiring ancient Greek art.