Publications on the history of money

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

a picture tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

... since when has money been in existence?

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmduration: 29 minutes

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Filmduration: 7 minutes

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

eine Bildertour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Filmduration: 72 minutes

- Money in different Forms

visually explained

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Milan between 1412 and 1447

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

two examples

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

15 stories

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

by Peter Wolf

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a coin tour

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

a picture tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

a coin tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a podcast of the year in 1527

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

by Robert Schneebeli

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a video podcast

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a coin podcast

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a view from history

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

a video podcast

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmduration: 32 minutes

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

5th Century B.C. Athens

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- Islamic Money

a coin tour

a coin tour

in Classical Antiquity

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... and its consequences

- The Yen

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a pictoure tour

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

a coin tour

a video podcast

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

I Ging

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance