Numismatic Museum of Athens

Set inside the Iliou Melathron, the ornate former mansion of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann on Panepistimiou Street, this museum displays coins, medals and monetary artefacts spanning from the earliest Greek city-state issues to modern times. The building itself is a draw, with painted ceilings, mosaic floors and neoclassical detailing designed by Ernst Ziller. Visitors move through rooms tracing how coinage recorded rulers, gods and civic identity across the ancient Mediterranean.