Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus
Lara Hirst
2008 Belfast Cities Edition Pound coin
‘For so much what shall we give in return?’
For three years I had been searching for a pound with this inscription, turning every coin thats passed through my hand in the hope that I might read the motto of Belfast profoundly stamped on its rim, and such that I might remove everything but these words from the object - A token of exchange, a signifier or debt, the very unit of worth.