{"id":329,"date":"2024-05-07T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/?p=329"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:44:43","slug":"physicality-and-value-coins-culture-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/moneysp2024\/2024\/05\/07\/physicality-and-value-coins-culture-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicality and Value: Coins, Culture, and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Antonio Machado once said that, \u201conly a fool thinks that price and value are the same\u201d.  The exploration of what truly constitutes value is a much debated topic across many disciplines.  We typically equate the word \u201cvalue\u201d with \u201cprice\u201d and\/or \u201cmoney\u201d.  While value can indeed represent those things, objects can also hold emotional value, artistic value, historical value, spiritual value, and social value.  In this collection of objects, we examine a few of the different kinds of value that money can hold, specifically when it transitions from having monetary value then having another kind of value.  Money no longer holds monetary value when it has been significantly altered, defaced, or damaged in some way.  Each of these four objects were at one time currencies in circulation to be exchanged in the open market, but because of their alterations, they no longer have monetary value.  However, that does not mean that these objects are not valuable.  The cultural and social components of money are emphasized when value is transmuted into something that is not monetary.  By putting these objects in conversation with each other it illustrates the rich and multiple dynamics between money and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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