Coin Collection of Islamic Numismatics

The founder of Swabian folklore Ernst Meier (1813–1866), Tübingen professor of oriental languages, collected Arabic coins, which were purchased by the university after his death. Through the acquisition of the Stephen Album collection in 1988, numerous donations and the founding of the “Research Center for Islamic Numismatics Tübingen” (FINT), this basic stock became one of the world's largest and most important collections of Islamic coins of the Middle Ages and early modern period. Around 80,000 coinages, more than 3,000 of them in gold (picture), from the area from Spain to Afghanistan offer an archive of the history of rulers, religion, and economy. Together with the coin collection of Classical Archaeology (see p. 20), the coin collection of the University of Tübingen forms the most qualitative and extensive university coin collection in Germany.

To the collection in the eMuseum (selection)