Publications on the history of money

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

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

in Classical Antiquity

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

15 stories

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

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

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

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

beautiful High Relief Coinage

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

two examples

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

visually explained

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

of the MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a view from history

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a coin tour

By Günter Hoffmann

By Katrin Schär

by Marcus Junkelmann

by Dagmar Lorenz

by Robert Schneebeli

by Peter Wolf

Holland in the 17th century

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

– the Birth of Tolerance

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a picture tour

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a video podcast

a video podcast

Nero‘s Propaganda

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

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

a video podcast

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

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

5th Century B.C. Athens

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Filmduration: 29 minutes

Filmduration: 34 minutes

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

a picture tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

eine Bildertour

a coin tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a pictoure tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- Islamic Money

a coin tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

a picture tour

- from the Vikings until today

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- The Yen

I Ging

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

... since when has money been in existence?

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

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

... and its consequences

a podcast of the year in 1527

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Features of the Human Face on Coins

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a coin podcast

a coin-podcast

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