Speaking coins

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

A coin named "Waserthaler" and a mayor who was thought to have betrayed his hometown. Not true – read the truth.

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

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

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a podcast of the year in 1527

a coin podcast

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

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

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Where did the meat come from which was consumed in medieval Nuremberg?

5th Century B.C. Athens

The search for Aesillas leads us to the means the Romans used to conquer Asia Minor.

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

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

a coin-podcast

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

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

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

The bloody end of the Staufer and the conquest of Sicily.