archive of documents

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

In 2008, a financial crisis descended upon the world. A film sheds light on the backdrop and the history.

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

- Money in different Forms

of Switzerland.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- Islamic Money

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The world’s oldest book remains a rich source of wisdom today. A film as introduction.

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

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

The beat rhythm has its origin in the fact that we have to deal with money every single day.

a coin podcast

a pictoure tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Holland in the 17th century

by Lukas M. Schneider

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

of the MoneyMuseum

a podcast of the year in 1527

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

in Classical Antiquity

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Peter Wolf

Filmduration: 32 minutes

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

... to Attila, Charlemagne, Archduke Sigismund and Emperor Charles V

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

By Katrin Schär

two examples

a coin tour

a coin tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

I Ging

a picture tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Texts and pictures of the most important currencies from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The two main branches of Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism, have their common roots here ...

eine Bildertour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

by Robert Schneebeli

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Filmduration: 29 minutes

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

15 stories

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

Bearing rulers’ portraits, coins were always symbols of power.

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

visually explained

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a picture tour

a video podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

... and its consequences

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin-podcast

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a picture tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

- the Basis for Everyday Money

By Günter Hoffmann

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Coins of the Roman Republic mirror a time when money, politics, commerce and war collided.

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

a picture tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

a video podcast

a video podcast

a view from history

- The Yen

a video podcast

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

by Joachim Rau, author of «Märkte, Mächte, Monopole.»

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The Path to Modernity Taken by the Land of the Rising Sun by Dagmar Lorenz.

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmduration: 7 minutes

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann