7 02 ‘ 2019   museomag 
MORE THAN A DIGITAL PROJECT 
Highlighting its collection of Luxembourg coins 
provides the Coin Cabinet with a fabulous opportunity 
to study the heart of our numismatic collections that 
represent an invaluable heritage in depth. This „new 
generation“ cataloguing is part of a long tradition 
of transmitting knowledge at the example of coin 
collectors from previous centuries. Therefore, parallel 
to the encoding, a research project is carried out about 
one of the first catalogues of Luxembourg coins. The 
historian Jules Vannérus (1870-1974) from Diekirch and 
the Antwerp lawyer and collector Édouard Bernays 
(1874-1940) published it in 1908 (Histoire numismatique 
du comté puis duché de Luxembourg et de ses fiefs). 
Bernays gave his collection to the Coin Cabinet of 
Brussels and Vannérus to the Archives nationales de 
Luxembourg. These major series complete adequately 
the coins collection of the MNHA. A publication and an 
exhibition will illustrate their works as well as explore 
the new lights that digitized materials can offer to a 
numismatic collection. 
Cécile Arnould DIGITIZATION