Digging in the archive

in Classical Antiquity

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

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

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

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

An analysis on social justice

Gotha numaria, 1730

a pictoure tour

a video podcast

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

Schweitzer Chronic, 1631

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

J. R. R. Tolkien

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Im Gespräch (Conversations with Goethe)

15 stories

Consolation of Philosophy

Il Milione

The poor man in Tockenburg

beautiful High Relief Coinage

AudioGuide Roman Republic

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

Oblomow

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a video podcast

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

... since when has money been in existence?

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Der Hound of the Baskervilles

a video podcast

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

Usury, purgatory, and Francis of Assisi

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

The city

a podcast of the year in 1527

by Ursula Kampmann

Legenda aurea / Heiligenlegenden

Alsatia illustrata – Germanica / Gallica, 1761

AudioGuide Roman Republic

Meistererzählungen

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

Filmduration: 21 minutes

Filmduration: 72 minutes

The medieval world order

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

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

Of Illness and their Cure, 1771

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

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

Where did the Emperors take the money from?

Table talk

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

The golden Age / Dream Days

Audio: Introduction Roman Republic Nr. 2

The Golden Ass, Manesse Verlag

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

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

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

by Herbert George Wells

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Carmen

a coin-podcast

Change of Climate as trigger

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

utopia, dystopia and coping with the present

Four books on measurement

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

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

a video podcast

Meistererzählungen

Conversation Book

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

Who wanted the crusades?

Max Havelaar

Audio: Introduction Roman Repuvblic Nr. 3

a picture tour

two examples

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

De arithmetica and De institutione musicae

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

New Atlas, 1710

1816: The year without a Summer

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

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

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

Filmduration: 32 minutes

Der Steppenwolf

Chronique du règne de Charles IX

Features of the Human Face on Coins

5th Century B.C. Athens

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

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

Gründliche Anleitung zur Artillerie, 1660

Youth without God

The sea wolf

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

The Life of Capitán Alonso de Contreras. By himself.

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

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

The golden Calf - A Millionaire in the Sowjet Union

publiziert 1716

... and its consequences

a coin podcast

Introduction Roman Republic

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

Aldous Huxley

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

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

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

a view from history

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

Published 1948

Madame Bovary