Gallery · east wing, first floor

Room 14

This gallery is closed for maintenance

Room 14 has been closed for maintenance since 19 September 1893. The maintenance is continuing. Visitors are asked to proceed from Room 13 to the east stair. The Museum regrets that no date can be given for reopening and refers enquiries to the War Ministry, which does not answer them.

The accession record

National Museum accession record, Room 14, dated 19 September 1893. Reproduced as it stands in the catalogue, including the later note.

Accession OSM, obverse and reverse — Catalogue photograph. The profile faces left.

Accession no. OSM-[REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE WAR MINISTRY]
Object: coin, grey metal, 19 mm, 3.1 g.
Provenance: recovered from deep water east of the Reed Line by H. Moor,
peat cutter, 12 September 1893. Purchased, 40 marka.
Obverse: profile, facing left. (Schwartzistani coinage faces right.)
Reverse: eleven characters in an unidentified script. Referred to the
Academy of Sciences; no identification.
Disposition: Room 14, case 3. Room 14 closed for maintenance 19 Sept 1893.
Note in a later hand: "Do not describe as evidence of anything."

The record of the room

12 September 1893, The Eastern Marshes: 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. Concerning The National Museum, Hanne Moor. Evidence file.
19 September 1893, The National Museum: Room 14 of the National Museum is closed for maintenance. The catalogue number of one recent acquisition is redacted by order of the War Ministry. Concerning The War Ministry, The National Museum. Report.

The finder

Hanne Moor, peat cutter, born 7 July 1861 at Marschau, died 15 April 1939. Pulled a coin with an unknown script from the marsh on 12 September 1893. Sold it to the Museum for forty marka. Interviewed once, in 1931, and said only that the water there was 'very deep for a marsh.'

The Museum holds the object described above in case 3 of this room. It does not describe it as evidence of anything.