Stories

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a coin tour

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

a picture tour

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

by Peter Wolf

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

two examples

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

... since when has money been in existence?

- The Yen

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

a coin tour

a video podcast

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a coin tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

a video podcast

Holland in the 17th century

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a video podcast

a picture tour

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

- from the Vikings until today

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- Money in different Forms

15 stories

a picture tour

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

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

of Switzerland.

Features of the Human Face on Coins

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

eine Bildertour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

by Dagmar Lorenz

a picture tour

Filmduration: 34 minutes

I Ging

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

Filmduration: 7 minutes

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a picture tour

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

– the Birth of Tolerance

in Classical Antiquity

Filmduration: 21 minutes

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

visually explained

a picture tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a picture tour

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Nero‘s Propaganda

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

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

By Günter Hoffmann

a picture tour

... and its consequences

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Robert Schneebeli

a coin-podcast

By Katrin Schär

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

a picture tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

beautiful High Relief Coinage

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

a coin podcast

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

a coin tour

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a pictoure tour

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

Filmduration: 72 minutes

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

a video podcast

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

a coin tour

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

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

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

a coin tour

a picture tour

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a view from history

a coin tour

a coin tour

a coin tour

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

a coin tour

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

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

a coin tour

- Islamic Money