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Rorke's Drift to the British Museum: The Story of Henry Hook

In this edition of Curator’s Corner from the British Museum’s YouTube channel, Money and Medals Network Project Curator Henry Flynn discusses the exhibition, focusing on loan objects from the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh in Brecon that relate to Private Henry Hook VC, a soldier from Gloucestershire who fought at Rorke’s Drift and later worked at the British Museum.

Henry Hook In Zulu

How to Build a Banknote Collection

Banknote expert Jonathan Callaway provides a video presentation on how to start or build a banknote collection, covering topics including collecting by country and theme, inflation notes, and special dates and numbers to look out for. Callaway covers the following topics:

* My collection and how it developed
* Geography - Europe
* Thematic collecting - Aircraft
* Inflation notes
* Special number and special dates
* “Story” notes

Video adapted from Festival of Coins, a virtual event hosted by All About Coins (UK), September 18 - October 16, 2020.

Single Finds Versus Hoards

Roger Bland, President, Royal Numismatic Society, discusses coin finds and assesses what kinds of information can we gain from them.

The study of numismatics in recent years has been dominated by the study of coin finds and these are normally divided into hoards and single (or stray) finds. The two categories have often been studied in isolation from each other. This paper will look at the blurring at the edges of these two categories and will consider the different sorts of information that can be gained from them, drawing on the work of a recent research project on Iron Age and Roman coin hoards from Britain and the database of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Video adapted from Festival of Coins, a virtual event hosted by All About Coins (UK), September 18 - October 16, 2020.

The Lure Of Sceats