{"id":17632,"date":"2025-12-16T20:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it\/?page_id=17632"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:53:51","slug":"cabinet-for-coins-and-medallions-owned-by-francesco-gnecchi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/cabinet-for-coins-and-medallions-owned-by-francesco-gnecchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet for Coins and Medallions owned by Francesco Gnecchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Made in Milan in 1878 to house the entire numismatic collection of Francesco Gnecchi, this cabinet is crafted from Italian walnut and features an imposing architectural structure enriched with an elaborate ornamental programme. The cornice is formed by a carved frieze with cornucopias and vegetal motifs framing a central medallion depicting the she-wolf suckling the twins, a symbol of the Eternal City. The two doors are decorated in relief with phytomorphic elements, griffins and fish, and at their centre large representations inspired by Roman coin types: the armed personification of Roma (see, for example, the Neronian sestertii in case 11, no. 23) and the towered personification of Italia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Inside, the cabinet is fitted with 330 trays designed for the storage and systematic arrangement of the coins. The owner\u2019s initials are carved into the external decoration and repeated on an internal metal plaque, which also records the year and place of manufacture and the names of the designer, maker and sculptor of the cabinet [\u201cANNO \/ MDCCCLXXVIII \/ MEDIOLANI \/ F G \/ STOCCHETTI DELINEAVIT \/ DUBINI FECIT \/ BRAMBILLA SCULPSIT\u201d].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The cabinet was acquired by the Italian State together with F. Gnecchi\u2019s coin collection in 1923, comprising over 20,000 pieces, about one thousand of which are displayed here in the cases dedicated to the history of Roman coinage.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made in Milan in 1878 to house the entire numismatic collection of Francesco Gnecchi, this cabinet is crafted from Italian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17632","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17632\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}