The Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum of Poland has a basic significance for Polish numismatics, being one of the three largest and most valuable public collections in the country. Its collections currently count over 155,000 objects, of which the majority (around 100,000) are coins, both Polish (around 45,000) and foreign (including ancient coins). There are also over 1,500 plaquettes and medallions, including a unique nationwide collection of Renaissance plaquettes from the 15th and 16th centuries (around 140 pieces), made by Italian, German and French artists (including Moderno, Valerio Belli, Peter Flöttner). The Cabinet can also boast of a collection of around 12,000 medals, medallions, orders and badges, including works of the most renowned Polish and foreign medalists (Jan Maria Padovano, Sebastian Dadler, Jan Filip Holzhaeusser). An important part of the collection is the set of portrait medallions from the 19th and 20th centuries, including a particularly unique group of plaquettes and medallions in plaster by Czesław Makowski, forming a gallery of outstanding Poles from contemporary times. A unique part of the collection is also the almost complete set of plaquettes created in the State Mint in Warsaw from 1926 to 1939, purchased in 2020, consisting of many unique pieces or objects extremely rarely encountered. The collection of the Numismatic Cabinet also includes over 5,500 antiques from sfragistics and over 20,000 Polish and foreign paper currency signs.
