archive of documents

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

a coin tour

By Günter Hoffmann

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

visually explained

a picture tour

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Filmduration: 21 minutes

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a podcast of the year in 1527

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

by Robert Schneebeli

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

eine Bildertour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Filmduration: 34 minutes

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

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

- Islamic Money

a coin tour

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a coin podcast

a picture tour

a picture tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin-podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Holland in the 17th century

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a video podcast

a coin tour

- The Yen

in Classical Antiquity

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

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a video podcast

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

By Katrin Schär

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

15 stories

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

... since when has money been in existence?

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Milan between 1412 and 1447

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a video podcast

a picture tour

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

of Switzerland.

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Peter Wolf

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a pictoure tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a picture tour

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

I Ging

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

- Money in different Forms

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

a view from history

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a video podcast

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

a coin tour

two examples

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