archive of documents

by Dagmar Lorenz

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

a picture tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

- Islamic Money

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

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

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

5th Century B.C. Athens

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a coin tour

By Katrin Schär

a coin tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

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

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

a picture tour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

a video podcast

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

I Ging

a coin tour

a picture tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Filmduration: 34 minutes

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a coin-podcast

in Classical Antiquity

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a coin tour

By Günter Hoffmann

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a view from history

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a picture tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

of Switzerland.

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a pictoure tour

a video podcast

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

visually explained

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Milan between 1412 and 1447

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

- from the Vikings until today

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Nero‘s Propaganda

- Money in different Forms

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin tour

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

15 stories

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

by Robert Schneebeli

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

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

... since when has money been in existence?

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

a video podcast

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

by Peter Wolf

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

- The Yen

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

two examples

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a coin tour

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Holland in the 17th century

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

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

... and its consequences

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin tour