Special workshop today for the @CulturalMoney project with Simon Glenn, exploring the @UniversityLeeds coin collection from @UoLLibrary ! Exciting to be able to explore the collection remotely with Simon's expertise & an interdisciplinary group

I'm already stunned by the range of the collection - Simon giving us a lightning tour of world history through coinage...

...and coming right home to Yorkshire with Restoration-era "tokens" produced as substitute coinage by local tradespeople

"People producing a currency for themselves" when Royal Mint wasn't providing small-denomination coinage

Money in crisis: we see "siege tokens" from the English Civil War, a hyperinflation banknote from Weimar... and a horde of coins from the Roman imperial crisis (C3rd CE)

@_DrMarkDavis commenting on the relationship between crisis and 'grassroots' financial innovation - eg innovations in crowdfunding in the Ukraine when the banking system collapsed