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Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

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

Animal Farm

Stopfkuchen.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Nero‘s Propaganda

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A fatal accident, a question of destiny and a strong personality.

a picture tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a picture tour

Master Tales

... on justice and freedom of action

The sea wolf

Is our money what we can call an original or a worthless copy, an empty promise?

... since when has money been in existence?

– the History of a Close Relationship by Christoph Weber-Berg, Zürich

On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

I Ging

Short video on how to attain it

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

eine Bildertour

By Günter Hoffmann

A successful concept for the investor

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

MoneyMusuem’s wide-ranging exhibition on Bitcoin, including its many videos, is available here online.

Les Misérables

a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Do you handle money like Scrooge McDuck, Charlie Brown, Happy-Go-Lucky or a moneymaker? Try this test and find out.

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

Robinson Crusoe

Brigitta and other tales

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

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

Published 1948

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

Master Tales

two examples

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

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

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

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

... and its Relation to Money

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

Crises influence each other. The presented content highlights the causes and their relationship to money.

Satyricon

Carmen

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

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

a picture tour

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

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

Ideal and Reality

a podcast of the year in 1527

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

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

a picture tour

A money-free world: Would it be possible? Would we make it possible?

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

Money is both real and unreal at the same time. Why is this and why is value a product of imagination?

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a chart service for the investor

of the MoneyMuseum

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Erewhon

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Collection MoneyMuseum

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Germinal

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Max Havelaar

The medieval world order

a video podcast

a coin tour

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Effi Briest

a pictoure tour

Meistererzählungen

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

... and its consequences

An analysis on social justice

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Introduction Roman Republic

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

a coin tour

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

of the MoneyMuseum

2-minute-video from the series "success stories"

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

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

Collected Tales. The Tremolino/ Because of the Dollars/ The Secret Sharer ...

a 2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin-podcast

© Andreas Platthaus

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

visually explained

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

in the money markets

Money and Exchange III: The emergence of the market economy made money the universal medium of interchange.

Jürg Conzett, MoneyMuseum’s founder, shares his thoughts on the nature of money.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Consolation of Philosophy

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

by Harald Wessbecher

Great Expectations

Jane Eyre

Beyond Money III: The modern means of production and distribution are to be re-used – without money.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Four books on measurement

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

Money and Time II: The economy is forced to make more money out of money. But what actually drives this compulsion?

Filmduration: 7 minutes

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- Islamic Money

A Christmas Carol

Bottom-Fishing: How to Avoid the Traps, a chart service by FinGraphs

Canterbury Tales

a chart service for the investor

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

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Self-portrait

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Money and Time III: The capitalist system is based on money as capital: money that yields more money.

- The Yen

a coin tour

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

"Those who have will be given more, and will have an abundance."

Listen to the answers of an economist, banker, professor and money manager

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

Don Quixote

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Fahrenheit 451

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Oblomow

The Scarlet Letter

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

The Martian Chronicles

financial markets and the virtuality of values

- from the Vikings until today

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

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

The Great Gatsby

Clarissa Harlowe

Money and Relationship II: In a modern society, its members are linked by dependence on money. What does this mean?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Collected Fairy Tales

– the Birth of Tolerance

a video podcast

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Filmduration: 23 minutes

a video podcast

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Tewje, the Milkman

a coin tour

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Money and Exchange I: Exchange, gift, obligation – when, where and how do they come into play?

We all use money and have a relationship to it. And this publication is about both aspects.

Money and Power II: It’s the people in our society who are forced to buy and sell.

Madame Bovary

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Sense and Sensibility

a view from history

The Beautiful and the Damned

Thought Form III: We can buy everything with money, and we interpret everything in the form it assumes through money.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

Reminiscences

for the investor

5th Century B.C. Athens

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a picture tour

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

A short statement

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Herbert George Wells

Sonnets

Treasure Island

... leaves no traces. Video explores some main differences between Eastern and Western mentalities.

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

The city

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

a picture tour

A report from Ruanda

Money and Relationship I: What constitutes the «I» in modern times?

Vanity Fair

Meistererzählungen

Filmduration: 72 minutes

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Travel around the World in 80 Days

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

A word play in German on love and life - it all depends on the direction of the "i".

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

Il Milione

Money and Relationship III: Our world as external world is made into a sellable thing, a commodity.

On Human Relations

a video podcast

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

Filmduration: 52 minutes

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Pride and Prejudice

Who wanted the crusades?

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

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

Mrs Jenny Treibel

Money defined in seven categories

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Milan between 1412 and 1447

From alms to citizen’s income by Günter Hoffmann, Berlin

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Lukas M. Schneider

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

of the MoneyMuseum

The Forgers

The poor man in Tockenburg

a picture tour

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

The Turn of the Screw

of the MoneyMuseum

In brief, it is the key to understanding what money does to us – and what it does to the world.

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

a picture tour

Stiller

publiziert 1716

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Ocean health is a Black Elephant: un occurrence that is foreseeable but whose causes are ignored – until it happens.

Thought Form I: Let you take on an imaginary journey to see what happens with monetary value as a pure number.

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

- Money in different Forms

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Youth without God

by Robert Schneebeli

Thought Form II: Money and merchandise veil themselves in subject and object.

Der Steppenwolf

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

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Discussion about the relationship between work and the ability of a job to generate meaning.

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Bel-Ami

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

AudioGuide Roman Republic

The Decameron

Voltaire and Rousseau

a coin tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Conversation Book

by Carol Schwyzer

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

J. R. R. Tolkien

Table talk

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

a coin tour

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

The first opportunity to handle money …

a picture tour

Beyond Money I: Is it possible to think beyond money, since we only know the world shaped by money?

Old Goriot

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

What is the cause of inflation and where does it lead us to?

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

15 stories

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Money and Time I: The economy is forced to make more money out of money.

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

The Maltese Falcon

Physiognomic Fragments

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

Quiz questions to money and general knowledge - as app for your smart phone.

in Classical Antiquity

Das Totenschiff. Die Geschichte eines amerikanischen Seemanns (The Death Ship)

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Money and Power III: The need for money springs from governments.

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

Middlemarch

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

"Sunflower" critically examines money: The situation of money is critical, and the aim is to critically assess money.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The White Heron, and Other Tales from the Country of the Pointed Firs

The Idiot

by Ursula Kampmann

Moby Dick

ThurnierBuch, 1532

of Switzerland.

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Money and Material I: What are the origins of money?

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

Videoduration: 15 minutes

a coin tour

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

Wuthering Heights

By Katrin Schär

New Atlas, 1710

Money and Material III: From a coin as a unit of exchange value to a function that is only defined digitally.

Money and Material II: How did coins actually come to physically represent exchange value? Eske Bockelmann explains.

Change of Climate as trigger

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

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

Radetzkymarsch

Gotha numaria, 1730

Walden or Life in the Woods

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

1816: The year without a Summer

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Money is … a fairy tale. One that comes true, if we all believe in it.

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Get an answer in 90 seconds

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Ecuador has to repay its debt with oil - what does that mean?

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

a coin tour

Beyond Money II: In the commons approach, money confronts something that involves collective participation.

In modern times, a theory of money is inevitably a theory of society. Such theoretical effort is very much called for.

Money and Power I: A toothbrush belongs to one person. The soil that feed many people follows other laws.

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Charles Baudelaire

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Holland in the 17th century

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

by Dagmar Lorenz

of the MoneyMuseum

Aldous Huxley

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Filmduration: 20 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Theatrum Machinarium, Oder: Schau-Platz der Heb-Zeuge, 1725

Money and Exchange II: Purchasing replaces people’s comprehensive sense of obligation.

We need money for the necessities of life. Thus – money must shape our thinking. What implications does that have?