Coins of India

The exhibition of Luís Filipe Thomaz’s Coin Collection will be renewed with the presentation of its core collection of coins minted in India. This concludes the journey of the collection and the collector through the three major centres of coinage, ca. 600 BC: Lydia, in Asia Minor; the Huang He (Yellow River) basin, in China; and north-western India. The importance of this numismatic collection is also inseparable from the professional career of the historian, who very early on established intense and fruitful ties with the Portuguese presence in the East, dedicating his degree dissertation ‘The Portuguese in Malacca, 1511-1580’ to it in 1965.