During the trip to NUS Museum, a coin caught my eye. This was a coin that was excavated from Singapore Fort-canning Park. After discussion with my team, we agreed that it would be very interesting to do Singapore’s monetary system during temasek.
In my research, I found that most of the coins used in Singapore during the Temasek period are ancient copper coins from the Song and Yuan dynasty. However, there have also been coins from Sri Lanka and Kupang (Indonesia) that have been excavated.
Nonetheless, I will be using Chinese copper coins for my exhibition..
Chinese Copper Coins
Chinese Copper Coins
Singapore (Temasek), 14th – 15th century
Excavated from Fort-canning Park, Empress Place, and Singapore River. These ancient coins originated from Song and Yuan dynasty in China. These coins were the ancient currency of Singapore, used in trade when the Chinese came to Singapore.
Poster Draft
As intense excavations are carried out in Singapore, various artefacts from before Singapore was colonised by the British were uncovered. Amongst these artefacts, numerous ancient Chinese copper coins were found.
The origins of these coins stretch from the Song dynasty to the Yuan dynasty, suggesting that well-established trade has been on-going between Singapore and China long before the British colonised Singapore.
What a great idea to use coins for this exhibition–it seems only perfect as it is about a port city that came into being through trade.
The object label could be longer. What is the poster draft? Is that your catalog entry?
What are your textual sources? You need to include these in your catalog entry.
You may want to mention that other coins have been discovered because that shows that Singapore traded with many countries.