Digging in the archive

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

... since when has money been in existence?

Youth without God

Table talk

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

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

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

publiziert 1716

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

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

a picture tour

a video podcast

Meistererzählungen

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

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

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

Consolation of Philosophy

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

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

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

J. R. R. Tolkien

The city

Il Milione

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

The golden Age / Dream Days

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

New Atlas, 1710

a view from history

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

Filmduration: 32 minutes

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

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

Madame Bovary

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

5th Century B.C. Athens

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

a picture tour

The poor man in Tockenburg

Aldous Huxley

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

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

a picture tour

Published 1948

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a video podcast

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

a pictoure tour

a podcast of the year in 1527

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

by Herbert George Wells

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

The medieval world order

Conversation Book

Who wanted the crusades?

AudioGuide Roman Republic

a video podcast

in Classical Antiquity

a coin podcast

a video podcast

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

Four books on measurement

... and its consequences

by Ursula Kampmann

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Introduction Roman Republic

Oblomow

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

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

15 stories

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Max Havelaar

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

1816: The year without a Summer

Milan between 1412 and 1447

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

a coin-podcast

An analysis on social justice

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

Filmduration: 72 minutes

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

Carmen

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Nero‘s Propaganda

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

two examples

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

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

Der Steppenwolf

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

Meistererzählungen

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

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

Gotha numaria, 1730

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

The sea wolf

Change of Climate as trigger

Features of the Human Face on Coins