Referred object · evidence file 6
Coin
12 September 1893 · The Eastern Marshes · artifact
Room 14 (closed for maintenance)
- Object number
- NMV/■■■■/■■ (as printed)
- Object type
- Coin
- Date received
- 12 September 1893
- Place
- The Eastern Marshes
- Materials
- Grey metal, unidentified
- Dimensions
- Diameter 21 mm; weight 3.3 g
- Department
- Referred objects, held without classification
- Location
- Room 14 (closed for maintenance) · Room 14
The record
The peat cutter Hanne Moor pulls a small grey coin from deep water east of the Reed Line. It bears eleven characters in a script the Academy of Sciences cannot identify and a profile that faces the wrong way. The Museum buys it for forty marka.
Provenance: referred by, or concerning
- The National Museum (acquirer)
- Hanne Moor (finder)
Disposition
Held by the Museum without classification. Referred to the War Ministry, which does not describe it as evidence of anything. Not on display.
The record is the record. The Museum has no view on what it records.
File 6 of 18. Room 14 remains closed for maintenance.
Other files
| File 1 | 14 October 1819 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 2 | 11 October 1826 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 3 | 18 November 1827 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 4 | 18 June 1842 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 5 | 5 July 1874 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 7 | 21 November 1894 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 8 | 12 January 1900 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 9 | 12 September 1904 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 10 | 25 July 1908 | The Marschau Conference's empty chair is found, at the morning… |
| File 11 | 3 March 1911 | One hundred years to the day after the first, a second declaration… |
| File 12 | 29 September 1913 | A coin of the same grey metal as the Room 14 specimen turns up in… |
| File 13 | 16 July 1929 | A sentry on the Reed Line reports lights moving in the marsh to the… |
| File 14 | 21 October 1944 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 15 | 18 April 1993 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |
| File 16 | 21 May 2007 | A child in Reedside recites a rhyme in a language her parents do not… |
| File 17 | 31 October 2016 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 18 | 9 September 2021 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |