archive of documents

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

- Money in different Forms

a picture tour

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

- Respectable and Trustworthy

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

a coin tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a picture tour

a video podcast

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

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

Filmduration: 72 minutes

... and its consequences

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

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a coin tour

a video podcast

a picture tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

a coin tour

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

by Dagmar Lorenz

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a picture tour

- Islamic Money

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Filmduration: 29 minutes

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

two examples

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Holland in the 17th century

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

in Classical Antiquity

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

By Katrin Schär

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

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

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

eine Bildertour

- The Yen

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

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

of the MoneyMuseum

Filmduration: 32 minutes

By Günter Hoffmann

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a view from history

by Lukas M. Schneider

a coin tour

a coin tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin podcast

... since when has money been in existence?

15 stories

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

– the Birth of Tolerance

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a coin tour

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Robert Schneebeli

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

a picture tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a video podcast

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

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

a picture tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a video podcast

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

visually explained

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

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

by Peter Wolf

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

I Ging

a coin tour

of Switzerland.

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor