Digging in the archive

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

by Peter Wolf

a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

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

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

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

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

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

a coin tour

a coin tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

a coin podcast

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

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

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Dagmar Lorenz

- the Basis for Everyday Money

a coin tour

Holland in the 17th century

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

a coin tour

Filmduration: 72 minutes

a picture tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

A Lost Civilisation in Western Asia Minor

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

a picture tour

of the MoneyMuseum

two examples

a coin tour

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

from the Kievan Empire to 1897 by Anton Seljak

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Islamic Money

a picture tour

Filmduration: 32 minutes

The Thesis to the Origin of Money by Eske Bockelmann

– the Birth of Tolerance

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

A Journey through Time in Ten Maps

a view from history

- Money in different Forms

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

a picture tour

a picture tour

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

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

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

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

a picture tour

a picture tour

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

by Lukas M. Schneider

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

Copyright PM, von Peter Boccarius

a picture tour

By Katrin Schär

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

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

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

Filmduration: 29 minutes

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a picture tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

an exhibition in theMoneyMuseum, Filmduration: 22 minutes.

By Günter Hoffmann

Filmdauer: 27 Minuten

- from the Vikings until today

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

a coin tour

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

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

of Switzerland.

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

– in the Service of the State by Maria Dettenhofer

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

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

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

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

eine Bildertour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

15 stories

a coin tour

by Robert Schneebeli

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

... since when has money been in existence?

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

a video podcast

Filmduration: 21 minutes

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

– just a Tiresome Necessity? by Maria Dettenhofer

a coin-podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great

Nero‘s Propaganda

... and its consequences

a picture tour

a coin tour

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

a pictoure tour

- The Yen

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- Respectable and Trustworthy

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Money and currencies in history from earliest times to the euro

in Classical Antiquity

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

Filmduration: 34 minutes

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

a picture tour

a video podcast

a video podcast

a coin tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

Filmduration: 7 minutes

a podcast of the year in 1527

5th Century B.C. Athens

visually explained

I Ging

Milan between 1412 and 1447

a video podcast

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a picture tour

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

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

a coin tour