The choice of a handsome Old West End building to house the American Numismatic Society’s relocated museum from New York City shows a reassuring vote of confidence in the city from an outside perspective.

Last week, the city learned that a venerable museum housing a priceless collection of rare coins and similar items had decided to pack up and move from Manhattan to the campus of the Toledo Museum of Art, in response to an outreach led by Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam Levine.

The 167-year-old society will take up residence in the Art Deco-style Parkwood Professional Building at 1828 Parkwood Ave. at Monroe Street. The building was part of the former Parkview Hospital complex that the museum acquired in 1998 for $500,000.

This is at least the second time that an established museum

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