Numismatic collection is in years behind systematically collected and it counts some 1000 specimen of metal and paper money, mostly from the territory of our country, that are dated to the time period from the 17th century and until the 50s of the 20th century.

The skeleton of the numismatic collection consists of the specimens of the Turkish coins which was legal tender in the territory of our country until 1912.

The money with which the Turks came to the Balkan States was akča (white money), small silver coins, forged from the time of Sultan Orhan (1326-1359) to the end of the 17th century.

Turkish money was most represented in the regions that were longest under the Turkish power, including our country. Since those times, up to the present days, this money has persevered in our territory, mostly as jewels or in the stores.

The oldest specimen of Turkish coins that is held in our collection dates back to 1695 and it was made in the time of Sultan Mustafa II (1695-1703), son of Mahmud IV but the youngest one is from 1912 made in the time of Sultan Mehmed V (1909-1918), son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Most represented in the Museum’s numismatic collection are: akča, aspra, groš, para, metalici, učluk, altuluk, medžedija, big kopča and pilaster.

At the time of Turkish rule, in the territory of today’s Serbia, there were several mints where Turkish money was made: Novo Brdo, Kučajna, and Beograd. Name of the Turkish silver coin of earliest date - para (from Arabic ‘bara’ - silver), is still present as a name for one hundredth part of modern Serbian dinar.

In the 19th century, during the rule of Karađorđe and Prince Miloš, many different currencies were in the circulation in Serbia, mostly Turkish, but also those from Dubrovnik, Venetia, Austria, Hungary, and other European monarchies of that time. Forty three different kinds of foreign money were used in that period.
Concomitantly with successful political liberation from the Turks, first steps were made towards the establishment of our own monetary system after four centuries money was last made in the Serbian Middle Ages.

Prince Mihailo Obrenović issued decision to make Serbian currency named para. That was how coins made from copper alloy were made and they were made in the denominations of one, five and ten paras, it had a portrait of Prince Mihailo and the year of issue - 1868 on its head side.

A new monetary unit was dinar, made from silver in 1875. It depicted Prince Milan and was made in the denominations of 50 paras, and one and two dinars.

The latest money depicting a ruler belonging to the Obrenović Dynasty dates back in 1897 when silver coins worth one and two dinars were made with the portrait of King Aleksandar I Obrenović. From 1904, after the change on the throne took place, money bore the image of the new ruler, Petar I Karađorđević.

Princedom of Montenegro got its own money in the beginning of the 20th century. Montenegro forged its money in the Viennese mint, looking after the Austrian model. First Montenegrin coins, perper, was issued by virtue of Prince Nikola's decree of 1906 until Montenegrin silver money was made in 1909. Because money was issued in small numbers, these coins are very rare and most valuable numismatic specimen.

After the First World War ended, different types of coins could be found in the territory of the newly-created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians. These coins were gradually replaced and, in 1920 already, money of the new state was used named dinar. In 1929 the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then the money was made with the new name of the state.

In the period before 1941 emitted money has different nominal and metal structure and it was made mostly in Vienna. After the last emission of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia coins in 1938, money has been made in the country, in the State Mint in Topčider.

After the Second World War, first coins of Yugoslavia were made in 1945. Ever since, all changes in the state constitution were followed by the change of corresponding elements, such as the heraldry and the name of the state: Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Apart from the above mentioned, a great part of the numismatic collection consists of the money from the neighbouring countries: Austria, Austro-Hungary, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Italy, Romania, as well as from Germany and Russia, made in the period between the second half of the 19th and mid 20th century.