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Here you can enjoy the cultural, economic and coin history in short, easily understandable steps. In each tour a series of carefully selected and particularly illustrative coins is awaiting for you. If you want to observe additional coins please visit our coin collection.

Select your Tour:
Greek World
The World’s Oldest Currency System 7 slides
Greek Bronze Coin – Money for Daily Life 7 slides
Hellenistic Coin Images – from Pictures of the Gods to Real Portraiture 9 slides
Litrae − Tiny Little Treasures from Sicily 10 slides
Mildenberg's Dream Collection 55 slides
Greek Monetary Systems – Diversity in the Origin 6 slides
Alexander the Great – the Father of the First Single Currency 7 slides
How the Eagle Got on Coins 12 slides
Images of Animals on Greek Coins – a Veritable Zoo 16 slides
The Lion – King also on Coins 15 slides
Olympics - money for the event 4 slides
Coins from the Foot of Mount Etna 6 slides
Signed Coins: Ancient Times 6 slides
Celts
The Mysterious World of Celtic Coins 15 slides
Hadlaubstrasse Exhibition: Celtic Coins 19 slides
Romans
Roman Bronze Coins – the Mass Media for Building Up the Emperor's Image 7 slides
How Did the Roman Emperors Look Like? 10 slides
The Denarius – Main Currency in Roman Times 10 slides
Caesar, His Allies and His Enemies 6 slides
Islamic
Coins without Illustrations − Islamic Money 11 slides
Middle Ages
Bracteate – the Thinnest Silver Pennies in World History 10 slides
The Fiorino d’Oro – Europe’s First International Gold Coin 8 slides
Grosso – Gros – Groot – Groat – Groschen 9 slides
The Denarius – also in Medieval Times the Basis for Everyday Money 12 slides
The Solidus – the Dollar of the Middle Ages 11 slides
Switzerland
Zurich People and Their Money: Coinage on the Limmat 21 slides
Swiss Federal Coins – Respectable and Trustworthy 9 slides
Coins of Zurich in the Baerengasse Museum 31 slides
The Ancestors of Helvetia 13 slides
The Swiss Euro 9 slides
Money as Art – Swiss Banknotes of the Years 1911-1958 6 slides
Money as Design – Swiss Banknotes of the Years 1956-1974 6 slides
Money as Challenge for Safety − Swiss Banknotes since the 1970s 5 slides
Men and Women on Swiss Coins 11 slides
Zurich on its Talers 6 slides
Saints on Swiss Coins 12 slides
Germany
How the Germans Found Their Mark 5 slides
The History of the Mark – full of Ups and Downs 8 slides
Coin Minting on German Soil: the Abbreviated Tour 24 slides
Exhibtion on Coinage on German Soil: from the Celts to the Euro.

31 slides
Millions Worth Nothing − German Emergency Money of the Years 1919-1923 8 slides
Austria
Salzburg – a Jewel in the Holy Roman Empire 8 slides
Italy
Papal Coins 9 slides
The Medici Family and Their Florence 9 slides
France/Benelux
La Belle France and Her Coinage 17 slides
Spain/Portugal
Spaniards in America 9 slides
British Isles
British Coins – Turning Their Back on the Continent? 12 slides
Northern Europe
Money in Denmark – from the Vikings until today 13 slides
Money in Sweden – from Gustav Vasa until Today 12 slides
Eastern Europe
Russian Coinage - or why the Rouble never Got Off the Ground 10 slides
North America
The US-Dollar, it’s Ancestors and Relatives 6 slides
A Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States 17 slides
Latin America
From Pillar Dollars to Eagle Piasters − the History of the Peso 9 slides
Far East
Chinese Currency History – from Cowrie to Cash 12 slides
The Chinese Cash-Coin 10 slides
From Chinese Silver Ingots to the Yuan 10 slides
Ring Money, Tea and Beetles' Legs: Natural Money in Asia and elsewhere 13 slides
Chinese Silver Ingots 8 slides
Japan
Money in Modern Japan 12 slides
Africa
South African Rand Coins – Donation by Cliff Gundle, London 9 slides
Kissi Penny, Salt and Manilla: Natural Money in Africa 12 slides
General
Trade Coins – a Special Money for Trading 4 slides
World Currencies − the Kings among Coins 16 slides
Gold Coins of the German Bundesbank I – Antiquity 52 slides
Cold Coins of the German Bundesbank II – Migration, Byzantium, Islam 39 slides
Cold Coins of the German Bundesbank III – High and Late Middle Ages 41 slides
Cold Coins of the German Bundesbank IV – Modern Times 82 slides
The Taler – the Trade Currency of the 16th Century 9 slides
Coins in the Radio Play 19 slides
Women on Coins – the Long Way to Equalisation 12 slides
Mystery Religions 20 slides
Beauty and Power: Women on Coins 11 slides
Ancient Coin Images on Modern Coins 20 slides
Portraits on Coins 15 slides
Emergency Money, Supplementary Money, Complementary Money: Money in Different Forms 18 slides
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