history of money

Book Collection MoneyMuseum

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

... as Business Cards of Switzerland

a pictoure tour

by Lukas M. Schneider

a video podcast

Horse Chariot and Arethusa

a picture tour

- Traditional Money in Africa a picture tour

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

a coin podcast

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

An analysis on social justice

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a coin tour

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

a picture tour

- The Copper Coins of Ancient Japan

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

a coin tour

... in the Holy Roman Empire, 1150

Hammer and sickle in the Austrian coat of arms?

a podcast of the year in 1527

a video podcast

eine Bildertour

- the Thinnest Coins of Monetary History

- The Yen

of Akragas of 406 B.C.

and humanistic tradition deciphered on the Dollar-bill

a coin tour

Features of the Human Face on Coins

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

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

and his Favourite Province mirrored by Coins

of the MoneyMuseum

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

a coin tour

- Islamic Money

a coin tour

discrete centre of transaction networks and communication

Change of Climate as trigger

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

- Turning Their Back on the Continent

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

of the MoneyMuseum

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

of the MoneyMuseum

- from the Vikings until today

About the four Functions and manifold Forms of Money

a coin tour

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

a picture tour

Collection MoneyMuseum

a picture tour

a view from history

of the MoneyMuseum

a video podcast

- the Basis for Everyday Money

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

Milan between 1412 and 1447

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

- Money in different Forms

a coin tour

a coin-podcast

by Marcus Junkelmann

for the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger

on the 50 Pfennig Coins in German Postwar Period

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

- Respectable and Trustworthy

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

Conquering Delphi, claiming Apollo

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

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

a coin tour

a coin tour

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

Nero‘s Propaganda

The MoneyMuseum Book Collection

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

A picture tour by Ursula Kampmann

This video shows why this great currency fell apart.

a picture tour

two examples

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

a picture tour

an exhibition at the MoneyMuseum

a coin tour

- Japan’s Road to the Yen

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

- the Dollar of the Middle Ages

a video podcast

Image as Successor of Augustus and Agrippa

a coin tour

from his Stress Syndrome and dedicated coins to Asclepius of Pergamum

c. 2000 BC to 1960 AD

A picture tour by Calista Fischer

15 stories

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

- the Father of the First Single Currency a coin tour

– from Gustav Vasa until Today

Terror - the beginning of political murder.

5th Century B.C. Athens

in Classical Antiquity

in Iconography between Sun God and Christ

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

a picture tour

a coin tour

Johannes Pistorius (1546-1608)

a course on the symbolism of the sunflower

a picture tour

von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne

of Switzerland.

Exhibition MoneyMuseum

beautiful High Relief Coinage

a picture tour

of 16th Century Coinage in Ferrara and France

a coin tour

why it remained singular in Venetian Coinage

Coins from Pavia, 295 AD

a coin tour

a picture tour

Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States