Item
A Nationwide Coin Shortage
Title (Dublin Core)
A Nationwide Coin Shortage
Description (Dublin Core)
With businesses having closed down, people avoiding handling hard currency out of fear of contracting COVID-19, and the US Mint experiencing significant difficulties in coin production in the spring of 2020, the US supply of circulating coins took a hit, prompting signs like this one at a west Wichita, Kansas, grocery store to become commonplace. Appearing in both English and Spanish, this image reflects the growing importance of cashless forms of payment and donations as ways of navigating this economic side effect of COVID-19.
Date (Dublin Core)
July 16, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Partner (Dublin Core)
Northeastern University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Business & Industry
English
Economy
English
Public Space
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
economy
coin shortage
US Mint
donations
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/16/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
08/07/2020
11/04/2020
Item sets
This item was submitted on July 16, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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