| Money to Play with |
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| 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 ... |
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 Saints on Swiss Coins
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint- Gaudens and America's Most Beautiful Coin |
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| The New Seven Wonders of the World |
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| A Diamond of 7000 Carat? |
| Allegedly in South Africa the biggest diamond ever has been found. This, at least, is what the international media is reporting. The diamond is said to weigh about 7,000 carats, about 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) thus. This means that the newly discovered diamond is estimated at twice the size of the Cullinan diamond, the largest precious stone ever found ... |
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South African Rand Coins Donation by Cliff Gundle, London
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| The Swiss National Museum in Zurich |
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| Vale un Potosν: Worth a Fortune |
| In the course of the 16th century, the Spanish conquered the South American continent on their search for the gold of Eldorado. They did not find the legendary city. What they found, however, was a mountain full of silver, where the Incas had mined precious metals long before the Spanish came. The conquistadores called it Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" ... |
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Spaniards in America
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| The Sicilian Phoenix |
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| The Sushi Crisis |
| The Japanese like to eat fish: while the global annual consumption of fish is about 16 kilograms per head, Japanese eat about 70 kilograms every year. But since there are few and fewer fish in the oceans, prices rise rapidly. Many fear that sushi and sashimi the Japanese national dishes made from raw fish might soon be too expensive for numerous people ... |
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Money in Modern Japan
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| The Olympic Games 2008 and Chinese Tradition |
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| The Owls of Athens |
| "Who is it brings an owl to Athens?" asked Aristophanes in 414 BC in his satiric comedy "The Birds." Owls, being the emblem of the extremely rich city, embellished the Athenian coins. These coins were therefore commonly known as owls, and because there were so many of them in Athens, it seemed pointless to bring more of them into the city ... |
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Images of Animals on Greek Coins a Veritable Zoo
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| Local Currencies in the Lands of the Euro |
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| Cash in Europe, Plastic in the USA what Is Stronger? |
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| Mirrors with a Memory |
| The daguerreotype brought photography its first boom. Contemporaries were fascinated and at the same time a little ill at ease: what if the people depicted were able to look out of the pictures all the same? For daguerreotypes came up at a time in which the possession of a mirror was a privilege by far not everybody could afford. Imagine thus what it must have meant to see a mirror image all of a sudden! "Mirrors with memories" were daguerreotypes therefore called ... |
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Portraits on Coins
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| A Mysterious Death in the Medici Family |
| In October 1587 the mortal remains of the 47-year-old grand duke Francesco I de' Medici and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, were buried in the little church Santa Maria a Bonistallo near Florence. The couple had died within only a few hours from each other unexpectedly and under mysterious circumstances. Was it murder? Or did the grand duke and his wife die from one of those diseases still so common in early modern times? ... |
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The Medici Family and Their Florence
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| The Tsar of Zurich |
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| The Celts Make Headlines |
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| The Californian Gold Rush |
| The first Californian gold nugget was discovered in 1848 on the ranch New Helvetia of the Swiss Johann August Sutter. This trove triggered one of the biggest movements in the history of the Unites States: during the following months, more than half a million people set out westwards ... |
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A Brief Survey of the Monetary History of the United States
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| Computer in Ancient Greece |
| In the 1st century AD, the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero mentioned a friend called Poseidonius, who could calculate the relative position of the sun, the moon and the five then known planets with an apparatus. As a gadget found in the Mediterranean recently proved, such complex calculating machines did actually exist in ancient Greece already ... |
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Mildenberg's Dream Collection
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| 15 Per Cent Columbus in the Cathedral of Seville |
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| St Peter's Basilica: Higher, Bigger, Finer |
| At the beginning of the 16th century, the most important church of Christian Europe was a mere ruin. For 1200 years, the basilica built by Constantine the Great (306-337) had sheltered the legendary grave of St Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to Christian tradition, the first bishop of Rome. Over that time, disturbances of history and ravages of time had damaged the church, although it had repeatedly been restored ... |
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Papal Coins
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| Transfer of Artistic Ideas from Ancient Times |
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| Cartoons and the Freedom of Press |
| The publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western papers arouse emotions worldwide. Hardly any Islamic preacher not decrying the mocking caricatures; hardly any Western newspaper not standing up for the freedom of press as an essential achievement of democratic societies. The atmosphere is tense, emotions are running high ... |
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Coins without Illustrations − Islamic Money
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| Caesar the Exposure of a Myth |
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| An Ancient Gold Penny to remain in London |
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| Japans Problem with Tradition |
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| Clay Tablets |
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| Salzburg's Treasure - once and today |
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| Test Your Knowledge with Our Quizzes |
| Seen from a historical perspective the quiz is a very recent phenomenon. It developed with television. But no other kind of game is loved by so many people ... |
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 Quizzes of the MoneyMuseum
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| Our Coin Collection |
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| The History of Money |
| Money is beautiful, money is interesting, money allows freedom but like a spinning top it must be kept in motion. Hoard it and you are enslaved ... |
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 The History of Money
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| Occidental Currencies at a Glance |
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| Feelings of Guilt and Debts |
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| Swiss Banknotes as Mirror of Its Time |
| Since 1907 the Swiss National Bank has been responsible for eight series of banknotes. The very first of them were printed, the forth and seventh were mere substitutes that never went into circulation. However, banknotes are always of political significance and a testimony to the ever changing spirit of the times ...
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Swiss Banknotes History
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| Picture Tours to the Origins of Christianity |
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| Historical Maps from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times |
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| The Most Beautiful Coins |
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| What Money Personality Am I? |
| Practically nobody is ambivalent about the subject money. Either we love it or we hate it. Our fears, life plans, wishes and expectations are all dependant on money. Just check out yourself and your friends ... |
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What Money-Personality am I?
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