Stories

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Tewje, the Milkman

for the investor

a picture tour

15 stories

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Sansibar or Flight to Afar, Diogenes Verlag

Grimms’ Children’s and Household’s Tales

Money influences our perception. An experiment by Theo Wehner.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

The Forgers

Thought Form II: Money and merchandise veil themselves in subject and object.

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

Listen to the answers of an economist, banker, professor and money manager

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Money and Power I: A toothbrush belongs to one person. The soil that feed many people follows other laws.

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

Bottom-Fishing: How to Avoid the Traps, a chart service by FinGraphs

Clarissa Harlowe

Die Leute von Seldwyla (The People of Seldwyla)

Vanity Fair

An analysis on social justice

Satyricon

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Meistererzählungen

Ecuador has to repay its debt with oil - what does that mean?

A successful concept for the investor

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

Bel-Ami

by Peter Wolf

Money and Material I: What are the origins of money?

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

Max Havelaar

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

Filmduration: 72 minutes

financial markets and the virtuality of values

Who wanted the crusades?

By Katrin Schär

Filmduration: 52 minutes

Gotha numaria, 1730

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

New Atlas, 1710

by Herbert George Wells

Reminiscences

of the MoneyMuseum

Money defined in seven categories

a picture tour

Travel around the World in 80 Days

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

a video podcast

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

Madame Bovary

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

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

a coin tour

MoneyMusuem’s wide-ranging exhibition on Bitcoin, including its many videos, is available here online.

Mrs Jenny Treibel

by Dagmar Lorenz, Wiesbaden Germany

Filmduration: 20 minutes

Erewhon

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner talks about activity and purpose

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

Crises influence each other. The presented content highlights the causes and their relationship to money.

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

by Robert Schneebeli

by Andreas Urs Sommer

Das Totenschiff. Die Geschichte eines amerikanischen Seemanns (The Death Ship)

PictureTour by Irma Götz and Christa Kaps

a picture tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a coin tour

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Money and Material II: How did coins actually come to physically represent exchange value? Eske Bockelmann explains.

The medieval world order

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen of Florence, London 1680

Money and Exchange I: Exchange, gift, obligation – when, where and how do they come into play?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

a picture tour

a 2-minute video from the series "success stories"

In modern times, a theory of money is inevitably a theory of society. Such theoretical effort is very much called for.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

The Idiot

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

Animal Farm

Why is the sunflower the symbol for the Sunflower Foundation?

Die Physiker (The Physicists)

a picture tour

Self-portrait

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

by Ursula Kampmann

Is our money what we can call an original or a worthless copy, an empty promise?

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Money and Relationship III: Our world as external world is made into a sellable thing, a commodity.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

- Islamic Money

Charles Baudelaire

by Dagmar Lorenz

Collected Fairy Tales

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

Remedies against Fortune, 1572

Money and Time III: The capitalist system is based on money as capital: money that yields more money.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Beyond Money II: In the commons approach, money confronts something that involves collective participation.

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

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a coin tour

a video podcast

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A Christmas Carol

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

a picture tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

Videoduration: 15 minutes

Beyond Money I: Is it possible to think beyond money, since we only know the world shaped by money?

Money and Power III: The need for money springs from governments.

in Classical Antiquity

From alms to citizen’s income by Günter Hoffmann, Berlin

On Human Relations

A fatal accident, a question of destiny and a strong personality.

"Those who have will be given more, and will have an abundance."

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

Historiae animalium (Thierbuch), 1606

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Old Goriot

– the Birth of Tolerance

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, 1665

The golden Age / Dream Days

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

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

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

a pictoure tour

Continuous crises are a sign of a system breakdown.

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a picture tour

The Great Gatsby

Short video on how to attain it

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

by Marcus Junkelmann

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Collection MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

A money-free world: Would it be possible? Would we make it possible?

Great Expectations

Brigitta and other tales

A chat with Peter Koenig, by nicaskew.com

- Money in different Forms

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

Money and Relationship I: What constitutes the «I» in modern times?

Do you handle money like Scrooge McDuck, Charlie Brown, Happy-Go-Lucky or a moneymaker? Try this test and find out.

of the MoneyMuseum

We all use money and have a relationship to it. And this publication is about both aspects.

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

a video podcast

a picture tour

Meistererzählungen

Der Steppenwolf

Ideal and Reality

a chart service for the investor

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

The Martian Chronicles

Moby Dick

... on justice and freedom of action

Money and Time II: The economy is forced to make more money out of money. But what actually drives this compulsion?

a coin tour

Carmen

Don Quixote

a coin tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Money and Exchange II: Purchasing replaces people’s comprehensive sense of obligation.

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) experiences an identity crisis.

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Beyond Money III: The modern means of production and distribution are to be re-used – without money.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

Introduction Roman Republic

a chart service for the investor

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

What is the cause of inflation and where does it lead us to?

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

Money and Relationship II: In a modern society, its members are linked by dependence on money. What does this mean?

Jane Eyre

Germinal

Introduction to the Sunflower discussion group

Castle Gripsholm. A Summer Story

Stiller

by Harald Wessbecher

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

A report from Ruanda

J. R. R. Tolkien

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Pride and Prejudice

... and its Relation to Money

Discussion about the relationship between work and the ability of a job to generate meaning.

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Candide / Zadig / L’Ingénu

Money Secrets based on interviews with enterpreneurs.

A short statement

Treasure Island

a picture tour

... since when has money been in existence?

a coin-podcast

The Maltese Falcon

Robinson Crusoe

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

The first opportunity to handle money …

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

Effi Briest

Prof. Dr. Theo Wehner views mistakes as learning chances

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Radetzkymarsch

Money is both real and unreal at the same time. Why is this and why is value a product of imagination?

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The Turn of the Screw

Die Verlobten (The Betrothed)

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Filmduration: 39 minutes

- The Yen

a coin tour

Russia and the terror crisis under Czar Alexanders II. (1855-1881)

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a picture tour

Volunteers often find their work more meaningful than professionals do.

Jürg Conzett, MoneyMuseum’s founder, shares his thoughts on the nature of money.

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

Youth without God

Iwein, Manesse Verlag

Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass)

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

In brief, it is the key to understanding what money does to us – and what it does to the world.

a picture tour

Aldous Huxley

5th Century B.C. Athens

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Roman Republic - The Roman army as the base of the Roman Empire

... leaves no traces. Video explores some main differences between Eastern and Western mentalities.

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

Stopfkuchen.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a coin tour

Il Milione

- the Basis for Everyday Money

visually explained

Walden or Life in the Woods

a coin tour

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

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

Oblomow

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

"Sunflower" critically examines money: The situation of money is critical, and the aim is to critically assess money.

Songs of Germanic Gods and Heroes

Money and Material III: From a coin as a unit of exchange value to a function that is only defined digitally.

Filmduration: 7 minutes

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

Thus spoke Zarathustra

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

a podcast of the year in 1527

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

in the money markets

a coin tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

Nero‘s Propaganda

a video podcast

anonymous author, published in Businessinsider 2014

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Conversation Book

Features of the Human Face on Coins

The Scarlet Letter

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

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

by Radio MoneyMuseum - as pdf-download

Testimonial: how a long-term user uses FinGraphs

The White Heron, and Other Tales from the Country of the Pointed Firs

of Switzerland.

Money and Exchange III: The emergence of the market economy made money the universal medium of interchange.

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

A word play in German on love and life - it all depends on the direction of the "i".

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Get an answer in 90 seconds

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

Thought Form I: Let you take on an imaginary journey to see what happens with monetary value as a pure number.

The 12 Characteristics of Modern Money

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

Master Tales

2-minute video with Cornelius Robin, entrepreneur with Switcher

The poor man in Tockenburg

of the MoneyMuseum

... and its consequences

Middlemarch

a coin podcast

We need money for the necessities of life. Thus – money must shape our thinking. What implications does that have?

Kangaroos, Maple Leaves and Pandas - a PictureTour

Voltaire and Rousseau

eine Bildertour

a picture tour

two examples

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

2-minute-video from the series "success stories"

publiziert 1716

Ocean health is a Black Elephant: un occurrence that is foreseeable but whose causes are ignored – until it happens.

Physiognomic Fragments

Master Tales

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

Sonnets

Canterbury Tales

- from the Vikings until today

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

Quiz questions to money and general knowledge - as app for your smart phone.

a coin tour

An introduction to Oanda – the trading platform

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

a picture tour

Thought Form III: We can buy everything with money, and we interpret everything in the form it assumes through money.

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

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

Money is … a fairy tale. One that comes true, if we all believe in it.

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Les Misérables

a coin tour

I Ging

Sense and Sensibility

Holland in the 17th century

Money and Power II: It’s the people in our society who are forced to buy and sell.

Published 1948

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

The Beautiful and the Damned

ThurnierBuch, 1532

The self-conception of the bourgeoisie and the new money market

Filmduration: 23 minutes

Money and Time I: The economy is forced to make more money out of money.

Theatrum Machinarium, Oder: Schau-Platz der Heb-Zeuge, 1725

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

The sea wolf

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

AudioGuide Roman Republic

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

The Decameron

a view from history

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The city

Four books on measurement

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Table talk

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

by Carol Schwyzer

Change of Climate as trigger

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

Collected Tales. The Tremolino/ Because of the Dollars/ The Secret Sharer ...

2-minute video from the series "success stories"

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

Fahrenheit 451

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

Consolation of Philosophy

© Andreas Platthaus

– the History of a Close Relationship by Christoph Weber-Berg, Zürich

Wuthering Heights

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

1816: The year without a Summer

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

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

Works (Tutte le opere …), Geneva 1560