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It has become common for scholars of nations and nationalism to use banknotes, coins and postage stamps as passing examples of everyday objects expressive of nationalism. Until recently, however, it has been less common for these objects to form the focus of empirical enquiries that substantiate their contribution to the creation and transmission of national symbolism. This article addresses this lacuna through an empirical investigation of over 300 years of Scottish banknote iconography. In their symbolic content, banknotes are shown to be amenable to the service of both national and non-national political agendas. To explain this phenomenon, we advance three interrelated arguments. First, we contend that variations in banknote iconography reflect the different political contexts in which notes were produced and the distinctive loyalties and customer constituencies of the banks that issue them. Second, we argue that changes in banknote imagery reflect changes in the scale of their circulation. Third, we argue that Scottish banknotes have always included iconography that constructs the image of the bank and advertises its reliability, often through association with national images. The article concludes by addressing Scotland's place in wider understandings of the iconographic power of banknotes.
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170700
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This article examines the processes of selecting human figures on banknotes since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Given Israel’s relative youth, along with the permission to read all proceedings and correspondence of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee from its inception in 1955 to 2012, we will decipher the selection of 33 human figures and the ideological motivations behind it. We will contextualize the discussions of the committee in Israeli social and political history; explain the belated, 1969, selection of human figures for illustrations on banknotes; depict the ideological outline of the committee; assess its level of independence; and reveal the working dynamics of a hegemonic body that is compelled to reflect the central personas of a society in the process of founding and institutionalizing a nation state – in this case, the State of Israel.
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