archive of documents

5th Century B.C. Athens

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

of the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

eine Bildertour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a podcast of the year in 1527

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

a pictoure tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a view from history

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

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

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

of Switzerland.

I Ging

a picture tour

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin-podcast

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

- Money in different Forms

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

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

15 stories

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

two examples

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a video podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

- The Yen

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Nero‘s Propaganda

... and its consequences

By Günter Hoffmann

in Classical Antiquity

By Katrin Schär

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

visually explained

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a video podcast

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

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

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

... since when has money been in existence?

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a coin podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

a video podcast

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a video podcast

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes