Numismatics
The Scientific Society The Canary Museum has a numismatic fund composed of two collections:
Alejandro Lifchuz Collection
It consists of 1,073 monetary and pre-currency pieces ceded in 1976 by the owner of the collection to the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The pieces were deposited in The Canary Museum, being accessible to the public upon request.
The collection has been studied by María del Carmen Burgos, this analysis being the origin of the current classification in the three sections that it presents:
Roman numismatics: consisting of 321 denarii belonging to the republican stage and 696 imperial bronze and silver coins.
Spanish numismatics: composed of 50 bronze and silver coins distributed in seven series (Hispanic-Greek, Hispanic-Phoenician, Hispanic-Carthaginian, Hispanic-Latin, Ibero-tarthetic, Iberian and Libyan-Phoenician).
Cylinder-seals: six Mesopotamian pieces in which bas-relief is used as a recording technique.