Digging in the archive

a coin tour

a picture tour

... how athletes were honored during the era of the Roman Empire

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a picture tour

... to Attila, Charlemagne, Archduke Sigismund and Emperor Charles V

by Peter Wolf

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

- Money in different Forms

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

19th century Germany was bothered by many different currencies. Here, you learn how they became one.

The two main branches of Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism, have their common roots here ...

Nero‘s Propaganda

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... and its consequences

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

by Lukas M. Schneider

The Conflict of Investitures was not only a matter of clerical authority, but also of money.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

a view from history

- The Yen

The Path to Modernity Taken by the Land of the Rising Sun by Dagmar Lorenz.

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

– the Birth of Tolerance

of Switzerland.

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 34 minutes

by Dagmar Lorenz

a video podcast

a video podcast

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Milan between 1412 and 1447

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Holland in the 17th century

Silver was incredibly precious in the early Middle Ages. How it was extracted, we see in Melle.

5th Century B.C. Athens

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

By Katrin Schär

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

trying to modernize Russia - and fell Victim to the troubled Times

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Augsburg‘s bloom till 1618, tax rolls reflect its decline since the Thirty Years‘ War

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

by Robert Schneebeli

Louis XIV of France, the Sun King balanced his state budget by means of a housekeeping book ....

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

In the second half of the 17th century, Scotland became part of the UK

Filmduration: 21 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

- Islamic Money

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a coin podcast

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

- Respectable and Trustworthy

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

minted its own Large Silver Coins on Tyrolean Model in 1494 A.D.

The beat rhythm has its origin in the fact that we have to deal with money every single day.

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

15 stories

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Texts and pictures of the most important currencies from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times

a coin-podcast

She was a stunner. Daughter of an emperor, hostage and widow of a Gothic king ...

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a video podcast

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Joachim Rau, author of «Märkte, Mächte, Monopole.»

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Marcus Junkelmann

Coins of the Roman Republic mirror a time when money, politics, commerce and war collided.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

The legendary wealth of king Kroesus is still known today ....

- from the Vikings until today

of the MoneyMuseum

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Bars of precious metal as Currency, Precursor of coined money and to store Wealth

two examples

a coin tour

visually explained

Bearing rulers’ portraits, coins were always symbols of power.

I Ging

... since when has money been in existence?

Diadoch in Macedonia, Greece and Asia c. 290 B.C.

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

The world’s oldest book remains a rich source of wisdom today. A film as introduction.

a coin tour

from the French Role Model with explicit Alpine Connotation and Democratic Topics

a coin tour

In 2008, a financial crisis descended upon the world. A film sheds light on the backdrop and the history.

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a coin tour

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

eine Bildertour

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period