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What’s on Your Money?

What This Project Is About

“Every banknote is a choice. This project asks: why that face, that monument, that moment?”

Currency is one of the few things every citizen touches. This project explores the people, places, and symbols chosen to appear on it, and what those choices say about power, memory, and national identity.

Four Ways In

This project examines the design decisions behind currency. What got chosen, what got dropped, and what changed when governments changed.

Hidden Stories
Design & Symbolism
Historical Moments
Evolution Over Time