The Austrian National Bank has succeeded in acquiring an extremely significant money -historical collection for Austria and thus preserving as an essential cultural asset in the country. The outstanding “Tyrolean collection” from the estate of the South Tyrolean Ernst von Ferrari-Kellerhofwerd, after the technical processing and inventory, the public is made accessible as part of the exhibition company in the OENB monetary museum and for numismatic research projects.
OENB-GOUVERNENER Robert Holzmann underlines the role of the National Bank: “We are very pleased to have brought such an important collection to the OENB. The National Bank thus makes a significant contribution to maintaining cultural assets in Austria and ensures that significant historical or artistic objects remain publicly accessible.”
The more than 1,100 Numismatic objects Ferrari-Kellerhof collection largely consists of coins from the Alttirol currency area (12th to 19th centuries). The old Tyrolean coin was central to Austrian and European money history. For example, the great coin reform of Archduke Sig (is) mouth, called the coin kingdom, in the second half of the 15th century the coin and the coin as a whole. This reform marked the beginning of the modern era in the coin umbrella and, in terms of money, is therefore on a level with other fragments of this era such as the discovery of America or the invention of the book pressure.
“The Ferrari-Kellerhof collection shows a wide range of Tyrolean coin history, from Merano and from the beginning of the Hall Mint. All of this in outstanding qualities and with important rarities,” reports the Innsbruck expert and coin dealer Alfredo Vitola. With the purchase of the collection, gaps in the existing coin collection of the National Bank Museum of Museum were closed. The OENB now has one of the most extensive public collections of old Tyrolean coins. The Ferrari-Kellerhof collection is currently being professionally processed and inventorized. After that, it will be accessible to the public as part of the exhibition company and numismatic research projects.
To a collector
Ernst von Ferrari-Kellerhof (1921–2009) was one of the outstanding collector’s personalities of Tyrolean numismatics. The dentist from Bolzano had already started collecting at the age of twelve and built up several significant coin collections in the course of his life. However, his great passion was his Tyrolean collection.
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