archive of documents

publiziert 1716

by Herbert George Wells

Conversation Book

Published 1948

Bars of precious metal as Currency, Precursor of coined money and to store Wealth

She was a stunner. Daughter of an emperor, hostage and widow of a Gothic king ...

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

A coin named "Waserthaler" and a mayor who was thought to have betrayed his hometown. Not true – read the truth.

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Milan between 1412 and 1447

from the French Role Model with explicit Alpine Connotation and Democratic Topics

The medieval world order

Silver was incredibly precious in the early Middle Ages. How it was extracted, we see in Melle.

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

15 stories

Change of Climate as trigger

a picture tour

New Atlas, 1710

Who wanted the crusades?

a video podcast

The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen of Florence, London 1680

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a view from history

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Ursula Kampmann

... and its consequences

Il Milione

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

... since when has money been in existence?

Where did the meat come from which was consumed in medieval Nuremberg?

L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, 1665

Consolation of Philosophy

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

a video podcast

two examples

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Table talk

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

trying to modernize Russia - and fell Victim to the troubled Times

The Conflict of Investitures was not only a matter of clerical authority, but also of money.

a podcast of the year in 1527

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Augsburg‘s bloom till 1618, tax rolls reflect its decline since the Thirty Years‘ War

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Diadoch in Macedonia, Greece and Asia c. 290 B.C.

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin podcast

An analysis on social justice

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The city

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Carmen

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

minted its own Large Silver Coins on Tyrolean Model in 1494 A.D.

a pictoure tour

The golden Age / Dream Days

The search for Aesillas leads us to the means the Romans used to conquer Asia Minor.

a video podcast

The poor man in Tockenburg

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a video podcast

1816: The year without a Summer

The legendary wealth of king Kroesus is still known today ....

Four books on measurement

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Max Havelaar

Oblomow

19th century Germany was bothered by many different currencies. Here, you learn how they became one.

Youth without God

Der Steppenwolf

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Meistererzählungen

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

J. R. R. Tolkien

... how athletes were honored during the era of the Roman Empire

a picture tour

Gotha numaria, 1730

Introduction Roman Republic

a coin-podcast

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Filmduration: 32 minutes

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Russia and the terror crisis under Czar Alexanders II. (1855-1881)

In the second half of the 17th century, Scotland became part of the UK

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

The bloody end of the Staufer and the conquest of Sicily.

The sea wolf

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

beautiful High Relief Coinage

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Nero‘s Propaganda

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Aldous Huxley

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

The self-conception of the bourgeoisie and the new money market

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Louis XIV of France, the Sun King balanced his state budget by means of a housekeeping book ....

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Roman Republic - The Roman army as the base of the Roman Empire

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Meistererzählungen

Madame Bovary

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) experiences an identity crisis.

in Classical Antiquity