Publications on the history of money

5th Century B.C. Athens

a view from history

visually explained

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a pictoure tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

... since when has money been in existence?

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

- Money in different Forms

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

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

by Robert Schneebeli

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

a video podcast

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

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

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

By Katrin Schär

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a video podcast

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

By Günter Hoffmann

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

of Switzerland.

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

- from the Vikings until today

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

a video podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

a coin-podcast

by Lukas M. Schneider

15 stories

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

eine Bildertour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a picture tour

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

- Islamic Money

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

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

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

by Peter Wolf

– the Birth of Tolerance

Filmduration: 32 minutes

two examples

I Ging

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- The Yen

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

Filmduration: 7 minutes

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

... and its consequences

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a picture tour

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

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

a coin tour

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Nero‘s Propaganda

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

a coin tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Holland in the 17th century

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour