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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...
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...
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...
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...
TEXT COLLECTION: Nachhaltige Geldanlagen – sozialverträglich und erfolgreich
Text only available in German.
COIN TOURS: The Denarius – in the Middle Ages the Basis for Everyday Money as well
In France the coin was known as "denier," in Italy as "denaro," in German speaking regions as "Pfennig," in England as "penny," – but in his essence, it always was the denarius, the traditional silver...
PICTURE TOURS: The History of Money III: Paper, Plastic and Virtual Money
By Aila de la Rive, © MoneyMuseum 2009 In China, where coins did not have any noteworthy intrinsic value, paper money came in use in the early 11th century already. It seems to have been introduced...
Picture Tours
The MoneyMuseum Book Collection: Swiss Chronicles
© MoneyMuseum 2005
As the name implies, chronicles are works documenting events and facts in chronological order. At the same time they give insights into the political lives of communiti...
Coin Tours
Money in Times of War
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 ti...
Coin Tours
Litrae – Tiny Little Treasures from Sicily
In the course of the 5th century BC, coins became articles of everyday use within the Greek world. At that time, even common folks started to pay with money for their daily needs. Day-to-day commer...