The Hall of Coins
The Hall of Coins at the Jordanian Heritage Museum was established in 2002, and it was officially opened by His Majesty King Abdullah II. A national team from the Jordan Heritage Museum and the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University contributed to the design and implementation of this work.
The Numismatics Hall aims at presenting an overview of the origin and development of coin in Jordan through time. Coins are important historical documents that enrich human knowledge with important information regarding historical, political, social, and economic aspects of past cultures. They reveal with high historic reliability a clear picture about the unfolding of financial, economic, and political systems of ancient societies.
The hall includes eleven cabinets containing coins from different eras in successive chronologies, from the pre-Numismatic era to the Islamic periods, in addition to:
- Historical shells and beads.
- Ornaments such as bracelets, collars, and "Arj" decorated with coins.
Economic and Technical Dimensions
These coins reflect the diversity that exists at each historical stage from economic, social, political, and religious perspectives. The hall also contains corners representing the methods of minting coins through:
- Illustrative models of the minting process.
- Minting tools representing successive historical stages.