archive of documents

- The Yen

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

of the MoneyMuseum

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

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

- Money in different Forms

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

eine Bildertour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

By Katrin Schär

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

I Ging

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a picture tour

two examples

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin podcast

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

15 stories

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

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a picture tour

a coin tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

a picture tour

Milan between 1412 and 1447

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a coin tour

visually explained

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

... and its consequences

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

by Peter Wolf

... since when has money been in existence?

a picture tour

in Classical Antiquity

by Robert Schneebeli

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

By Günter Hoffmann

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

a coin-podcast

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

a video podcast

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

5th Century B.C. Athens

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a video podcast

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

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

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a video podcast

- the Basis for Everyday Money

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Holland in the 17th century

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- from the Vikings until today

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

- Islamic Money

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

a view from history

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger