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| Maker(s): | Brixton Pound | | Culture: | British
| | Title: | Brixton ten pound note
| | Date Made: | 2017
| | Type: | Coin/Numismatic
| | Materials: | Ink on polymer
| | Place Made: | Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; Brixton
| | Measurements: | Overall: 2 13/16 in x 5 1/2 in; 7.1 cm x 14 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH 2019.15
| | Credit Line: | Purchase through prior Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description: Polymer note with neon orange, blue, pink, purple, and green. On the obverse: an image of David Bowie on the right, separated from the rest of the field by a vertical orange bar. The denomination written out twice as "10" and once as "ten." In the lower left, "Brixton£." On the reverse: imagery running from the lower right to the upper left of a hand releasing a bird that morphs across the note into a peace sign, which forms the zero in the "10" in the upper left. Blue, green, and orange band down the right side. Inscriptions noting the denomination and other information.
Tags: money; numismatics; performing artists; music Subjects: Money; Music; Numismatics Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+2019.15 |
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