history of money

Quiz questions to money and general knowledge - as app for your smart phone.

- Respectable and Trustworthy

To search and download on moneymuseum.com

a video podcast

a coin tour

a picture tour

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

two examples

a coin tour

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

a picture tour

- Money in different Forms

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

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

a coin podcast

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a coin tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin tour

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

a picture tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

a picture tour

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

a coin tour

Change of Climate as trigger

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

a coin tour

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a picture tour

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a view from history

a coin-podcast

- Islamic Money

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

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

of the MoneyMuseum

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

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

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

a video podcast

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

- from the Vikings until today

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

a coin tour

5th Century B.C. Athens

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

a pictoure tour

a picture tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

a picture tour

a video podcast

a podcast of the year in 1527

by Marcus Junkelmann

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

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

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

in Classical Antiquity

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

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

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

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

of Switzerland.

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

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

- the Basis for Everyday Money

of the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

of the MoneyMuseum

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

a coin tour

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

An analysis on social justice

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

Milan between 1412 and 1447

of the MoneyMuseum

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

15 stories

a coin tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

a video podcast

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

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

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

a coin tour

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

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

Nero‘s Propaganda

by Lukas M. Schneider

eine Bildertour

- The Yen