Publications on the history of money

Holland in the 17th century

a coin tour

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

by Lukas M. Schneider

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Filmduration: 34 minutes

Nero‘s Propaganda

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

- the Basis for Everyday Money

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

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

by Peter Wolf

two examples

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a coin tour

a picture tour

15 stories

by Dagmar Lorenz

visually explained

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

eine Bildertour

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

Filmduration: 29 minutes

a video podcast

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

of the MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a coin tour

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

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

I Ging

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

- from the Vikings until today

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a coin podcast

Filmduration: 21 minutes

a coin tour

a picture tour

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a video podcast

a picture tour

– the Birth of Tolerance

a coin-podcast

a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

a view from history

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

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a picture tour

... since when has money been in existence?

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

a video podcast

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

a coin tour

by Marcus Junkelmann

- The Yen

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

by Robert Schneebeli

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

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

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

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

a coin tour

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

in Classical Antiquity

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

- Islamic Money

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

a podcast of the year in 1527

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

a picture tour

of Switzerland.

Filmduration: 7 minutes

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

a coin tour

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

a picture tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

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

By Katrin Schär

a pictoure tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

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

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

- Money in different Forms

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a coin tour

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

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

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

By Günter Hoffmann

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

beautiful High Relief Coinage

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 ...

... and its consequences

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a video podcast

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a picture tour