Exhibit: DEFACED! MONEY, CONFLICT, PROTEST

I just found out about this exhibit which concluded on January 8th at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, but is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, in November of this year.

Here is the YouTube video with the Curator as narrator:

DEFACED! MONEY, CONFLICT, PROTEST - YouTube 

I'll show up for this.  I hope I can convince my son to have a look with me.

Very interesting. although still some time away, I shall mark my calendar. The AGO is just walking distance for me 

Very interesting!  The exhibit features many notable money artists including JS Boggs.  I first learned about his art here on the PMF & would like to attend the AGO show in November.

Thanks for sharing Camerinvs!

Yes. I managed to miss this when I was in Cambridge in December! 

The countermarked coin collection is of particular interest.

It will be a long drive for me to get there but I will do my best to attend.

Perhaps this will be an opportunity to visit the Royal Ontario Museum as well, though I may do that this spring.

Camerinvs

I just found out about this exhibit which concluded on January 8th at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, but is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, in November of this year.

 

Here is the YouTube video with the Curator as narrator:

 

DEFACED! MONEY, CONFLICT, PROTEST - YouTube 

Its a long way to the AGO, but ill still attend!

I'd love to see this, but it has to come to Calgary or Edmonton if it crosses Canada at all…

Dont suppose I’ll be down there before it travels but looks good ! I’ve seen a lot of UVF stamped coins on eBay and others 

id day, caveat emptor with those since they’re easily Forged. if you can pick one up cheap, then why not. 

Yes, that's the first thing that came to my mind, i.e. that the UVF countermarks can easily be forged. This is made even easier by the fact that they are three individual letter punches. They were not made into a single punch.

The exhibit in Cambridge closed on January 6th. For now I don't see it travelling anywhere else than Toronto this November.