If I never see another Prussian pfennig, it’ll be too soon! 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.…

 My placement @HarrisPreston truly begins  The Harris Museum’s location in Preston Last Wednesday I returned to the Harris Museum for the first real day of my placement there. The focus was picking which coins and notes will be included in the display of World War One coinage that I and 2 other students from Lancaster University will…

Before last week, I had no idea what numismatics was. Turns out, it’s the “study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects” (wiki). And the reason I now know the meaning of the word numismatics is because that is what I’ll be involved in from mid-February to the end of April.…