archive of documents

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a video podcast

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a coin tour

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

– the Birth of Tolerance

Holland in the 17th century

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

by Peter Wolf

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

a coin tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

of the MoneyMuseum

Milan between 1412 and 1447

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a coin tour

a picture tour

I Ging

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

- Islamic Money

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

by Marcus Junkelmann

a coin podcast

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

a podcast of the year in 1527

5th Century B.C. Athens

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

in Classical Antiquity

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a video podcast

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

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

a video podcast

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

... since when has money been in existence?

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

visually explained

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

a coin tour

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

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

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

by Dagmar Lorenz

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

- the Basis for Everyday Money

eine Bildertour

- The Yen

a coin tour

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

by Robert Schneebeli

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

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

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

a coin tour

a view from history

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

By Katrin Schär

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

a coin tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

15 stories

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- Money in different Forms

a pictoure tour

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

two examples

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of Switzerland.

a picture tour

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Nero‘s Propaganda

a coin tour

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

... and its consequences

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

a picture tour

By Günter Hoffmann

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 21 minutes