 Victor Emmanuel III was one of the most prolific coin collectors of all time, having amassed approximately 100,000 specimens dating from the fall of the Roman Empire up to the Unification of Italy.On his abdication, the collection was donated to the Italian people, except for the coins of the House of Savoy which he took with him to Egypt.On the death of Umberto II in 1983, the Savoy coins joined the rest of the collection in the National Museum of Rome.