archive of documents

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

- Islamic Money

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

– the Birth of Tolerance

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Nero‘s Propaganda

- Respectable and Trustworthy

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

two examples

a pictoure tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

a video podcast

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Money in different Forms

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

I Ging

a picture tour

... and its consequences

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

By Katrin Schär

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a video podcast

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

15 stories

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- The Yen

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

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a video podcast

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

5th Century B.C. Athens

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

visually explained

a coin tour

a picture tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

a coin tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a picture tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Peter Wolf

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin podcast

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

in Classical Antiquity

a picture tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

By Günter Hoffmann

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

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

a video podcast

a view from history

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

of the MoneyMuseum

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

of Switzerland.

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour