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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 ...
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: Senate of Rome, Grosso, 14th or 15th Centuries
Grosso is the Italian name for groat. The purchasing power of the denarius – the Italian penny – had dropped so much in the 12th century that commercial transactions in the rapidly growing economy had...
COIN COLLECTION: Roman Republic, L. Papius Celsus, Denarius, 45 BC
This Roman denarius is an issue of the moneyer Lucius Papius Celsus, as the inscription L. PAPIVS CELSVS III VIR reveals. The obverse shows the goddess Juno Sospita, which again is recognizable by th...
TEXT COLLECTION: Towns in the Middle Ages - Part 3
The dead are all equal but not their inheritance
"In death all are equal," they say. That’s true enough: once you’re dead, that’s it regardless whether you’re royalty or a cleaner or your name is Tom, Dick or Harry. And yet no one leaves behind the same mortal remains and the same memories. There are also huge differences as far as the heritage is concerned. It can make some happy and others less so. This was true in the Middle Ages as well. Discover at the MoneyMuseum who inherited what and why in those days.
COIN TOURS: Coinage on German Soil: the Short Tour
Coins have been minted for more than 2300 years on German soil. Celts, Romans and Germanic peoples, emperors, kings, bishops, abbots, dukes, and free cities – all of them took part in the profitable t...
PICTURE TOURS: A Journey through Time in Ten Maps: the Wild East of Europe
By Aila de la Rive, © MoneyMuseum 2004
(Translated by Graham Pascoe)