Similar to stamps' nation-building utility, coins and banknotes also avail to their issuers semiotic storytelling value often used to promote a national identity.
As a book dealer who specializes in numismatic and philatelic literature, I've just acquired as of last Monday, Feb. 20/23, my first copy ever of James Powell's A History of the Canadian Dollar (Bank of Canada, 2005), which I confess did not even know existed. I decided to keep it for my own numismatic library rather than re-sell it. Now here I find a quote from it. Whenever I encounter such apparent coincidences, I pay extra attention and count it as a confirmation that I'm reading the right thing at the right time by engaging with Jesse in his new "blog" (I'm sorry if I've offended your sensibilities, Jesse, by using this admittedly un-aesthetic word, but I did not know what else to call it; "newsletter" seems too tame and pedestrian.) Yours in numismatics, philately and in life, Howard R. Engel, Proprietor, Richard Stockley Books
As a book dealer who specializes in numismatic and philatelic literature, I've just acquired as of last Monday, Feb. 20/23, my first copy ever of James Powell's A History of the Canadian Dollar (Bank of Canada, 2005), which I confess did not even know existed. I decided to keep it for my own numismatic library rather than re-sell it. Now here I find a quote from it. Whenever I encounter such apparent coincidences, I pay extra attention and count it as a confirmation that I'm reading the right thing at the right time by engaging with Jesse in his new "blog" (I'm sorry if I've offended your sensibilities, Jesse, by using this admittedly un-aesthetic word, but I did not know what else to call it; "newsletter" seems too tame and pedestrian.) Yours in numismatics, philately and in life, Howard R. Engel, Proprietor, Richard Stockley Books
Thanks for sharing, Howard. I do love me some serendipitous synchronicity.