Digging in the archive

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

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

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

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

... since when has money been in existence?

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

a coin tour

a coin podcast

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Lukas M. Schneider

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Islamic Money

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

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

- the Basis for Everyday Money

... and its consequences

Nero‘s Propaganda

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

– the Birth of Tolerance

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 7 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- The Yen

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin tour

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 72 minutes

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a pictoure tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

of Switzerland.

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a video podcast

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

by Peter Wolf

by Robert Schneebeli

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

a view from history

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

a video podcast

a video podcast

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

By Katrin Schär

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

15 stories

two examples

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

visually explained

a picture tour

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

- Money in different Forms

Filmduration: 21 minutes

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

I Ging

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

a picture tour

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

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

a picture tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

a picture tour

a video podcast

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

a coin-podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

Holland in the 17th century

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

eine Bildertour

beautiful High Relief Coinage