Collection unlocked: The Coins of the Kingdom of Aksum from the Early 4th to the Early 7th Century A.D.
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The holdings of Aksumite coins of the Coin Cabinet Vienna are now accessible via the IKMK.
The 52 specimens (33 gold, 9 silver, 10 non-ferrous metal) date from the time of King Endybi (c. 300-310), the first minting ruler of Aksum (present-day Ethiopia), and extend to the time of King Joel (c. 590-610), when Aksumite coinage gradually came to a standstill.
The basis of this collection is formed by 32 gold coins, which the orientalist David Heinrich Müller (1846-1912) brought back from his South Arabian expedition (1898/99) to South Yemen and handed over to the then Imperial and Royal Numismatic Collection in 1904.