{"id":921,"date":"2013-02-28T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-02-28T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:50:20","slug":"anthropology-of-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2013\/02\/28\/anthropology-of-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology of Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last week,<\/strong> the Chapin Library and Williams College Archives &amp; Special Collections welcomed Visiting Assistant Professor Llerena Searle&#8217;s Anthropology class, &#8220;Financial Lives&#8221;, concerned with aspects of finance and investment.<\/p>\n<p>The collections of the Chapin Library and College Archives hold many examples of ancient and modern coinage, bills, ledgers, and other financial accounts, as well as books and broadsides dealing with currency and financial issues.\u00a0Students carefully examined materials ranging from a coin from the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius to the 1747\/8 account book of Fort Massachusetts, a United States 1785 ten-dollar gold coin, George Washington&#8217;s manuscript account of his (losing) investments in Revolutionary War loan certificates, American money of the colonial period, and currency issued by the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. \u2013 <span style=\"color: #993300;\">JGD\/SKB\/WGH<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-922\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;\" title=\"Coins from Special Collections\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0013-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-926\" title=\"Visiting Professor Searle, Williams College Anthropology Department\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0016-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0016-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0016-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-924\" title=\"Account Book, Williams College Archives and Special Collections\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0023-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-927\" title=\"Wayne Hammond of Chapin Library and Sylvia Kennick Brown, Williams College Archivist\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0011-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-923\" title=\"Bills of Exchange\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0026-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0026-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0026-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-925\" title=\"Students, wearing gloves, examine ancient coins \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0021-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0021-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-928\" title=\"Bob Volz of Chapin Library\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0025-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC_0025-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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