archive of documents

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Islamic Money

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a video podcast

a view from history

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

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

a picture tour

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

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

visually explained

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a video podcast

a picture tour

two examples

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

– the Birth of Tolerance

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

a picture tour

- The Yen

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

eine Bildertour

a coin-podcast

a coin podcast

15 stories

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

by Peter Wolf

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

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

a pictoure tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

a video podcast

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

... and its consequences

a coin tour

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

I Ging

in Classical Antiquity

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- Money in different Forms

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

of Switzerland.

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

by Robert Schneebeli

... since when has money been in existence?

a podcast of the year in 1527

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection