{"id":22,"date":"2015-03-24T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:12:21","slug":"numismatics-blog-post-3-emily-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/2015\/03\/24\/numismatics-blog-post-3-emily-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Numismatics blog post 3 – Emily Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I never see another Prussian pfennig, it\u2019ll be too\u00a0soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday 4th March, I returned to Preston. This was the first chance I got to start what will be the bulk of my work at the museum; the conservation and cataloging of German coins.<\/p>\n

\"Emily's<\/a><\/p>\n

My desk<\/p>\n

This was my ever so tidy work desk. Complete with the absolutely necessary tea.<\/p>\n

This was essentially the work I was doing. I wrote out the information of each coin onto a paper packet. Then, I took the coin from its nasty plastic case that was corroding the metal, and placed it into the nice paper bag that wouldn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/a><\/p>\n

Prussian pfennig<\/p>\n

The reason I chose to show you this particular coin wasn\u2019t because it is a particularly impressive coin (because it isn\u2019t) but this coin is all I can think about when I think about my work that day. Why?\u00a0Because I conserved\u00a082 coins that day. And out of that 82, 46 were virtually identical Prussian pfennigs!!!<\/strong>\u00a0I did finally manage to conserve all the Prussian pfennigs but I\u2019m still not done with all the coins from Prussia. I\u2019ll admit, I started to feel very anti-Prussia when I was only half-way through writing pretty much exactly the same label almost 50 times!<\/p>\n

However, when I\u2019m not going through the Prussian pfennigs, I sometimes came across interesting coins. There was one small silver coin, which the person who\u2019d originally catalogued the coin couldn\u2019t identify. With some detective work, Matt and I successfully found out when it had been made and by whom!<\/p>\n

\"drawer<\/a><\/p>\n

Drawer of coins<\/p>\n

Where the white section of coins start in the middle row, that is the beginning of my German coins. It continues along that row, and through the row to the right, and into another drawer.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The section that is white is the section of coins that I completed conserving on Wednesday. I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019m quite happy with the progress I made. When you\u2019re busy writing the individual labels, it seems like the coins will never end, but it\u2019s good to see what you achieved at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

\"empty<\/a><\/p>\n

The pile of empty plastic cases at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

And to finish this blog, have another picture of the majestic Harris Museum building just because I can, and there was actually sun shining when I took this picture!<\/p>\n

\"Harris<\/a><\/p>\n

The Harris in the sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I never see another Prussian pfennig, it\u2019ll be too\u00a0soon! On Wednesday 4th March, I returned to Preston. This was the first chance I got to start what will be the bulk of my work at the museum; the conservation and cataloging of German coins. My desk This was my ever so tidy work desk.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-placement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}