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Money to Play with

The coinage of the United Kingdom is changing. After almost 40 years, the current British coins will be replaced by a new set in summer 2008. On first sight, the new coin designs appear fairly unspectacular. They present the portrait of the Queen, and the Royal coat of arms. Just the 1-pound coin displays the Royal shield in its entirety, however ...

British Coins – Turning Their Back on the Continent?

The Royal Mint

Saints in the Course of Time

Saints are not particularly prominent in the western world any more. The homo oeconomicus has much more faith in insurances and health funds than in intercessions of some long deceased. He is more interested in stars, royalties and celebrities than in preachers, martyrs and anchorites. And he does not believe in wonders, anyway ...

Saints on Swiss Coins

Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint- Gaudens and America's Most Beautiful Coin

"I suppose I shall be impeached for it in Congress; but I shall regard that as a very cheap payment!" wrote Theodore Roosevelt in December 1906 in a letter to Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The object of President Roosevelt's enthusiasm was a coin – the most beautiful coin ever minted in the United States of America: the Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle ...

How the Eagle Got on Coins
A Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States

The New Seven Wonders of the World

Some time ago the MoneyMuseum reported about a popularity poll for the election of Seven New Wonders of the World. The election took place on 07/07/07 and drew a wide range of reaction worldwide – also from official, national side. Some countries touted their sites and tried to get more votes cast for it, while others downplayed the contest ...

The New Wonders of the World – Part 1
The New Wonders of the World – Part 2
The New 7 Wonders of the World

The Swiss National Museum in Zurich

The neo-Gothic castle on the Limmat River in Zurich has been crumbling for a long time. When Zurich's master builder Gustav Gull constructed the Swiss National Museum in 1898, he paid more attention to style than to statics. Moreover, concrete was not as stable as it is today ...

Zurich People and Their Money: Coinage on the Limmat
Coins of Zurich in the Baerengasse Museum
Zurich on its Talers

The Olympic Games 2008 and Chinese Tradition

The imperial palace in Beijing holds 9999 rooms: hundreds of halls and saloons, innumerable sleeping rooms for the emperor and the empress, the princesses and the princes, the concubines and the eunuchs. The "Forbidden City" was the residence of the Chinese emperors; from here, the Chinese Empire was ruled for centuries ...

Chinese Currency History – from Cowrie to Cash
The Chinese Cash-Coin
From Chinese Silver Ingots to the Yuan
China – the Celestial Empire


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