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The third hall is the largest hall and the main showroom where
currencies are exhibited in three types of display containers the first
of these fifteen cases, standing adjacent to walls, show the antiquary
historical currencies, starting with the case of pre-Islamic coins, such
as Greek, Roman, Himyarite, Ptolemaic, Parthian, Sasanid, Byzantine, and
others. As for the second up to the fourteenth century H. each case
contains forty- two pieces.
The second type of display cases are hanging on walls: one located in
the forefront of the main museum hall, shows the currencies in
circulation at present in the countries of the gulf cooperation council,
while the other container is divided in two parts: one for the
currencies of the Arabian peninsula (within the boundaries of the
present day kingdom of Saudi Arabia) in the Islamic era, and the other
for those in circulation before the Saudi rule.
The third type of containers is huge central polygon container with the
map of the world, in the form of an electrically movable globe suspended
over it. This container shows samples of the currencies currently in
circulation in almost all the countries of the world, with the name of
each country, both in Arabic and English, and an electric switch which,
when pressed, shows the selected country’s currency. |
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