archive of documents

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Conversation Book

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The city

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

... and its consequences

a podcast of the year in 1527

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Four books on measurement

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

J. R. R. Tolkien

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Madame Bovary

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

by Ursula Kampmann

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

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

Il Milione

Published 1948

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

Max Havelaar

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

New Atlas, 1710

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

a video podcast

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a view from history

Change of Climate as trigger

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

by Herbert George Wells

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

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

5th Century B.C. Athens

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

beautiful High Relief Coinage

publiziert 1716

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

a video podcast

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The medieval world order

Youth without God

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a pictoure tour

a video podcast

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

15 stories

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Carmen

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

AudioGuide Roman Republic

1816: The year without a Summer

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

a coin podcast

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

Who wanted the crusades?

Oblomow

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Table talk

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

a coin-podcast

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

... since when has money been in existence?

The sea wolf

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

The poor man in Tockenburg

An analysis on social justice

Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a video podcast

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

in Classical Antiquity

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Der Steppenwolf

Gotha numaria, 1730

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Meistererzählungen

two examples

Introduction Roman Republic

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Meistererzählungen

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