Welcome to moneymuseum.com
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 ...
OUR TIPS: The MoneyMuseum in Gold Fever
From July 2, 2010, the MoneyMuseum opens the exhibition "Gold between Dream and Reality" at its premises on Hadlaubstrasse in Zurich. To give our future visitors a first impression of the show, we pre...
OUR TIPS: “Drachm, Dirhem, Thaler, Pound”: A Brief History of Currencies
Are you looking for a summary of historical currencies? Are you interested in an outline of monetary circumstances of the past 3,000 years? Then we recommend you to have a look at our publication, "Dr...
COIN COLLECTION: Mysia, Cyzicus, Hecte (1/6 Stater), c. 500-450 BC
The electron coins from Cyzicus featured a microcosm of high quality Greek art for more than 200 years. From the 6th well into the 4th century BC the town with its two harbors, situated on the Sea of ...
COIN COLLECTION: Roman Empire, Aurelian (270-275), Denarius
Emperor Aurelian spent a lot of energy attempting to pull the Roman Empire out of its deep crisis in the 3rd century. This involved coinage. Aurelianus' coins were still of bad content, but at the sam...
TEXT COLLECTION: Money and Debts
The Burden of Debts
Debts – some are oppressed by them their whole life long, while others consider it to be good form to run up debts. And there are others who even make money out of them – of course, from other people's debts. Reason enough for the MoneyMuseum to take a look back into the history of incurring debts. And in doing so it turns out that in earlier times things were much the same as they are today, simply depending on which country you live in ...
COIN TOURS: From Pillar Dollars to Eagle Piasters – the History of the Peso
The Spanish peso was one of the most important trade coins of all times – if not the most important ever. Minted in the American colonies in large quantities, the peso can be found all over the world ...
PICTURE TOURS: The MoneyMuseum Book Collection: Bibliophile Books
Text currently only available in German.