The smell of money

I heard the most interesting thing earlier today: a documentary called The Smell of Money on BBC Radio 4. It's about cash, in the physical sense: how paper money feels, why coins still matter, and whether they're as doomed in the digital era as you might be led to expect.

I learned plenty, including that British monarchs face in a direction opposite to that of their predecessor. More importantly, early monarchs (i.e., the Romans) figured out quickly that coins were pretty much the only way most of their subjects would ever know their likeness. The coin as PR, in other words.

You can stream the show for the next week here.

Comments

[Rory Cathcart]

Oh the smell of money, right!
What can be better, really!