Worn

...by good use but still beautiful and distinctive. These photos are literally reflective; they suggest an essential harmony between time and culture.  

Numismatic Museum of Athens, Greece. 

A work of Ernst Ziller, 19th century, Athens, Greece. An impressive and glorious building of imposing architecture. ABOVE

The Numismatic Museum in Athens is one of the most important museums of Greece and houses one of the greatest collections of coins, ancient and modern, in the world. 

The museum itself is housed in the former mansion of Heinrich Schliemann, the famous German archaeologist, formally known as Iliou Melathron, "Palace of Ilion".   

{Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a Saxon architect who later became a Greek national, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras and other Greek cities.}

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. xx