Cantonal Money Museum
Palais de Rumine, Place de la Riponne 6, Lausanne 1005
Phone: +41 (0)2 13 16 39 90 - Fax: +41 (0)2 13 16 39 99
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The Cantonal Money Museum is one of the largest numismatics museums in Switzerland. It holds more than 80,000 monetary objects, comprising: coins, medals, tokens, seals, paper money, weights, balances and ledgers. The Money Museum also has a numismatics library with more than 20,000 volumes. It is also the legal depositary for all coins found in Vaud territory (to date, more than 150 hoards and 10,000 scattered coins). In Vaud, the Merovingians minted gold “tiers de sou” until the diocese of Lausanne created “oboles” and “deniers”. Cantonal banks still issued bank notes until 1907.
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