archive of documents

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Der Steppenwolf

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Aldous Huxley

a view from history

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

publiziert 1716

The poor man in Tockenburg

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

1816: The year without a Summer

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

by Herbert George Wells

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

Max Havelaar

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

The sea wolf

Milan between 1412 and 1447

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin podcast

Madame Bovary

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Conversation Book

Change of Climate as trigger

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

The city

Consolation of Philosophy

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Oblomow

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

Introduction Roman Republic

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

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a pictoure tour

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin-podcast

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

two examples

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

15 stories

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

AudioGuide Roman Republic

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

by Ursula Kampmann

The golden Age / Dream Days

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Meistererzählungen

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

Four books on measurement

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

Meistererzählungen

Carmen

Table talk

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

Who wanted the crusades?

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

The medieval world order

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

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

in Classical Antiquity

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

An analysis on social justice

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Youth without God

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Published 1948

New Atlas, 1710

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

... and its consequences

a video podcast

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

Il Milione

a video podcast

Gotha numaria, 1730

a video podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

J. R. R. Tolkien

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present