{"id":88,"date":"2015-05-26T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:10:28","slug":"numismatics-blog-post-6-emily-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/2015\/05\/26\/numismatics-blog-post-6-emily-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Numismatics blog post 6 – Emily Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harris<\/a>A journey through World War One\u2026 in #coin form!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was very lucky in being a part of this placement as Matt, the Project Curator for #moneymatters, offered the chance of getting involved in other parts of the Harris Museum.<\/p>\n

One extra was the\u00a0Numismatics Conference<\/strong>, which I\u2019ve mentioned before and I\u2019ll be posting about later. However, another extra, that was also my favourite part of this placement, was the\u00a0World War One display<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Matt offered the other 2 students and me the chance to create our own display, which would be installed in the museum! Of course, we jumped at the chance. We were asked to create a display that would illustrate the changes that occurred in our three countries\u2019 coinage \u2013 France, German and Russia \u2013 across World War One. How we did this was essentially up to us.<\/p>\n

There turned out to be a lot more time and effort involved in creating a museum display than I realised. First, we each went through out coin trays and picked out any \u2018interesting\u2019 coins from roughly the correct time period. Then we came together to see if our choices revealed any themes. It turned out that while Louise had few appropriate coins (though what she had were amazing); I had way more German coins than would fit into a display, especially a shared one with 2 other countries.<\/p>\n

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So much choice<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Russia<\/a>

Russia 100 rouble note, it was huge and very ornate.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was a very sad meeting where I had to say goodbye to all the great coins, with such interesting stories to tell. But, we had discovered 3 main themes and we had to be harsh in cutting our coins down, so we had enough room to discuss them.<\/p>\n

I think the hardest part was writing the labels. They kept going between us and Matt, Matt and Sue \u2013 the lady who checked them at the Harris \u2013 and then back to us. Eventually we had 3 labels that would hopefully be accessible and interesting to all readers (though we each had to cut out so many fascinating stories and coins that we wanted to include!).<\/p>\n

Contrasted with that, choosing the structure of the display was easy. First, we discussed the best was to show our themes, but also to show the three countries. Matt and Sue helped us decide on this design:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nBefore the war<\/td>\nCrisis!<\/td>\nLasting instability<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russia<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
France<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Germany<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

One of the more fun parts was laying the display out. Coins are (usually) very small, so we used raised blocks to draw people\u2019s attention to them. The Harris also had these mirrored blocks, which were perfect for showing both sides of Jenny\u2019s French stamp money.<\/p>\n

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The French didn\u2019t have enough metal to make real coins but they were still advertising champagne!<\/p><\/div>\n

Jenny and I also got to\u00a0play<\/span>\u00a0seriously and responsibly use a hammer and itty bitty nails to show my German coins, which were on the slanted part of the display case.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Matt Ball<\/p><\/div>\n

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Image courtesy of Matt Ball<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jenny\u2019s mam was slightly concerned about that!<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of @Matt0791and @AnneTaylor100<\/p><\/div>\n

Putting the display all together out in the museum was the\u00a0best<\/em>\u00a0feeling. We\u2019d been working on this for months and now it was installed in a\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0museum and it would stay there long after our placement finished! I count the day we installed our display as the best day of the whole placement!<\/p>\n

\"Visit<\/a>

Visit the Harris to check out our amazing display!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A journey through World War One\u2026 in #coin form! I was very lucky in being a part of this placement as Matt, the Project Curator for #moneymatters, offered the chance of getting involved in other parts of the Harris Museum. One extra was the\u00a0Numismatics Conference, which I\u2019ve mentioned before and I\u2019ll be posting about later.…<\/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-88","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\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-placements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}