archive of documents

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

of the MoneyMuseum

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Milan between 1412 and 1447

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

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

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

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

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

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

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

- The Yen

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

- from the Vikings until today

a podcast of the year in 1527

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a coin tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a coin tour

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Holland in the 17th century

by Lukas M. Schneider

5th Century B.C. Athens

a picture tour

a picture tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

- Islamic Money

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

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

eine Bildertour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a coin tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 34 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

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

by Dagmar Lorenz

of Switzerland.

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

a coin-podcast

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a view from history

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a pictoure tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a video podcast

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

a picture tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

two examples

By Katrin Schär

a video podcast

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

in Classical Antiquity

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

... and its consequences

by Peter Wolf

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

visually explained

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- Respectable and Trustworthy

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

I Ging

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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