Coins and Medals
The Numismatics section contains 50,000 objects, ranging in date from the invention of western coinage in the 6th century BC to the present day.
The Ulster Museum has the best holdings in Ireland of banknotes.
In addition to coins and notes, the collections include financial instruments, passes, admission tickets, bread tokens of the Famine period and a substantial number of Presbyterian communion tokens.
The important Medals Collection includes the Mairead Corrigan 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. This section contains spectacular items associated with the Order of St Patrick. The most recent accession has been an important donation by the Central Bank of Ireland of its new issue of Euro currency banknotes.