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Visit the MoneyMuseum, one of the first virtual museums for the history of money and currency. At its core you will find coins, images, historical maps and texts on money and the global history which illuminate the period from antiquity to present-day times. We offer you different kinds of access: you can search our database for interesting coins, sort the coin collection according to periods or visit one of our coin tours. And that is not all ...

OUR TIPS: The MoneyMuseum in Gold Fever

From the summer of 2010, the MoneyMuseum hosts an exhibition on gold at its premises on Hadlaubstrasse in Zurich. To give our future visitors a first impression of the show, we present the most famous...


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OUR TIPS: Bride Money and Other Ceremonial Currencies

On January 4, 2010, the South African president Jacob Zuma married his fiancée Thobeka Mabhija. The ceremony was held according to the traditions of Zuma's Zulu tribe. Beforehand the president had pai...


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COIN COLLECTION: Holy Roman Empire, City of Zurich, 1/2 Crown undated, c. 1558-1565

In 1521, Emperor Charles V finally conferred on Zurich the right to mint gold coins. At first the city issued goldguldens: in the 15th and 16th centuries these were the principal gold coins in the Hol...


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COIN COLLECTION: Holy Roman Empire, City of Zurich, Ducat (c. 1630)

Ducats were the most important of all Zurich gold coins. Supposedly they were struck in Zurich for the first time during the 1630s – we can only presume that, since some of Zurich's ducats are undated...


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TEXT COLLECTION: More Stories from Ancient Rome

What words have to say about Antiquity

Words tell stories just as much as coins. And that’s not surprising because words do have a history! Take the name for the new European currency, the euro, for instance, which gave its name to Europe.

And what may a woman surgeon and a manager have in common? Discover this interesting story at the MoneyMuseum ...


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COIN TOURS: Money in Times of War, Part II: Paper Money

The history of money is at the same time part of the history of the peoples using it. And, since the history of peoples was hardly ever harmonious, also the history of war. For money and war are tight...


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PICTURE TOURS: Zurich's Coins – a Short History through Time

By Calista Fischer, © MoneyMuseum 2002
(Translated by Graham Pascoe)

From the Ladies' convent Fraumünster in the Middle Ages to the introduction of the Swiss franc in the 19th century, ...


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