Cabinet des Médailles

Collection

The collection includes approximately 520,000 coins and medals, some 35,000 art objects and a library of 80,000 titles. The most important piece of the collection is the so-called Grand Camée de France. One of the showpieces of the collection include the carved ivory figures Charlemagne, one of the greatest chess games of medieval Europe.

Directors of the Cabinet of Médailles

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