Publications on the history of money

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

I Ging

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

by Marcus Junkelmann

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

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

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

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

a picture tour

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

– the Birth of Tolerance

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

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

in Classical Antiquity

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

a picture tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

two examples

a coin podcast

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

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Filmduration: 34 minutes

beautiful High Relief Coinage

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

a video podcast

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

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a coin tour

... and its consequences

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a view from history

a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

Filmduration: 72 minutes

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a coin tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

a pictoure tour

- The Yen

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

a video podcast

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

by Peter Wolf

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

... since when has money been in existence?

a coin tour

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

a coin tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

visually explained

by Robert Schneebeli

eine Bildertour

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

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a video podcast

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

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

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a video podcast

Nero‘s Propaganda

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

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

15 stories

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

Filmduration: 21 minutes

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

- Money in different Forms

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a picture tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

by Dagmar Lorenz

a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

of Switzerland.