Digging in the archive

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

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

a coin tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

eine Bildertour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Filmduration: 21 minutes

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a coin-podcast

of the MoneyMuseum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

I Ging

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

By Katrin Schär

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

- Respectable and Trustworthy

- Islamic Money

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

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

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

two examples

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

5th Century B.C. Athens

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a picture tour

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

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Nero‘s Propaganda

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

- Money in different Forms

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin tour

visually explained

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

... and its consequences

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

a coin tour

15 stories

a picture tour

a video podcast

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

– the Birth of Tolerance

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a picture tour

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

by Robert Schneebeli

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

a coin tour

- The Yen

- the Basis for Everyday Money

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Filmduration: 32 minutes

... since when has money been in existence?

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a video podcast

a picture tour

by Peter Wolf

a coin tour

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

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

of Switzerland.

a pictoure tour

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

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a picture tour

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a video podcast

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

By Günter Hoffmann

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a view from history

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a coin tour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin podcast