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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& #39;s expertise & an interdisciplinary group
I& #39;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& #39;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 & #39;grassroots& #39; financial innovation - eg innovations in crowdfunding in the Ukraine when the banking system collapsed
