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Here on the website of the MoneyMuseum – one of the first currency museums that presents its coin collection on the internet and since 2003 is physically accessible at Hadlaubstrasse 106 in Zurich – you will find numerous information about the history of Western key currencies and traditional means of payment. 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 ...
COIN COLLECTION: Republic of Portugal, 1 Euro 2002, Lisbon
Portuguese euro-coins show three different designs for each of the three groups of coins. However, they are quite similar in that all contain old Portuguese royal seals. The coins of 1 and 2 euros dep...
COIN COLLECTION: Republic of Italy, 2 Euro 2002
From the beginning of 2002, the Italians use – like other peoples of the European Union as well – euros and cents. Hence the lira belongs to the past; but at least, the Italians could return to centes...
COIN TOURS: Saints on Swiss Coins
Saints are no longer particularly prominent in the Western world. Homo economicus – the economically thinking human – has more faith in insurance policies than in the intercessions of some long deceas...
PICTURE TOURS: Merian City Views of the 17th Century – Germany
© MoneyMuseum 2001 The topography of southern Germany, illustrated by the famous etcher, copperplate engraver and publisher Matthaeus Merian (*1593, †1650), reads itself like a travel guide. It tells...