archive of documents

The medieval world order

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

a coin-podcast

Gotha numaria, 1730

Milan between 1412 and 1447

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

Aldous Huxley

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Conversation Book

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Consolation of Philosophy

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

a video podcast

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The sea wolf

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

by Ursula Kampmann

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

Meistererzählungen

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Madame Bovary

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

The poor man in Tockenburg

15 stories

in Classical Antiquity

Oblomow

Der Steppenwolf

Max Havelaar

publiziert 1716

Carmen

a video podcast

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Il Milione

by Herbert George Wells

Published 1948

a pictoure tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

a view from history

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

two examples

1816: The year without a Summer

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

... since when has money been in existence?

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a podcast of the year in 1527

Introduction Roman Republic

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Youth without God

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Four books on measurement

a picture tour

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

J. R. R. Tolkien

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

New Atlas, 1710

The city

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a video podcast

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

a video podcast

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Nero‘s Propaganda

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

5th Century B.C. Athens

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin podcast

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

An analysis on social justice

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Meistererzählungen

Change of Climate as trigger

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Table talk