Publications on the history of money

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin-podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Robert Schneebeli

Filmduration: 29 minutes

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

a pictoure tour

visually explained

a coin tour

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

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

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

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

15 stories

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

a video podcast

by Lukas M. Schneider

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a picture tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 32 minutes

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

... and its consequences

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

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

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

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

two examples

a view from history

a picture tour

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

a picture tour

- Islamic Money

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a picture tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

by Dagmar Lorenz

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

... since when has money been in existence?

by Peter Wolf

a video podcast

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

eine Bildertour

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

I Ging

- from the Vikings until today

of the MoneyMuseum

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

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a video podcast

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

of Switzerland.

a coin tour

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a picture tour

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

beautiful High Relief Coinage

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- the Basis for Everyday Money

By Günter Hoffmann

a coin tour

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Nero‘s Propaganda

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a coin podcast

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a picture tour

a picture tour

a video podcast

a coin tour

a coin tour

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin tour

- The Yen

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

5th Century B.C. Athens

a coin tour

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo