Exhibition "Secret Signs and Symbols on Coins"

About exhibition

A coin is not just a piece of metal stamped with a value. It is a true bearer of information, many-voiced, in which economy, politics, ideology and even personal destinies are intertwined. A coin can speak: in the whisper of time, the metal of convictions, the scars of history. In its symbols one hears the dull blows of crises, reforms and technological changes. In its marks are read the traces of people’s everyday lives. In its allusions sounds the voice of power itself — clear, confident, sometimes arrogant, sometimes nervous, hurried to leave a mark and assert the right to the truth. A coin eludes a single reading, because the same symbol can have different meanings — this is its advantage and its challenge for the researcher. At the exhibition "Secret Signs and Symbols on Coins" you will be able to try to decipher the ancient code of coins. Everyone can hear something of their own in them: the economist — the exchange rate and fineness, the historian — a change of power, the art historian — the hand of an era. But only in the combination of all traces — physical and semantic — do they reveal themselves as genuine artifacts of their time, having survived the centuries not as silent witnesses but as participants and storytellers. And it is for this that they continue to be studied, collected and listened to.