Abstract:The relationship between iconography and currency production in Greece depends on mechanisms of production of state objects. Collective memory is invoked through the issue of coins, as new political regimes emerge. Hence, coins carry not only economic but also sociopolitical values. The publication of coins in the Government Gazette offers a glimpse of the involvement of the state in coin production. The entanglement between people and coins is based on the ability of the latter to exercise social agency and generate relationships of mutual dependence. In this regard, coins constitute a means of naturalization of the Greek national narrative through their materiality, and their iconography conveys a political concern to create trustworthy currency. The persistent selection of classical Greek designs for twentieth-century coins and the conservative iconographic expansion after the 1960s demonstrate the national identification of these designs as agents of social and political interconnections that had acquired the authoritative status to create the necessary trust in the coins themselves.

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一个国家的肖像：二十世纪希腊的物质性和硬币生产

摘要：希腊图像学与货币生产的关系取决于国家对象的生产机制。随着新政体的出现，通过发行硬币来唤起集体记忆。因此，硬币不仅具有经济价值，还具有社会政治价值。硬币在政府公报上的发布提供了国家参与硬币生产的一瞥。人与硬币之间的纠缠，是基于后者行使社会能动性和产生相互依赖关系的能力。在这方面，硬币通过其物质性构成了希腊民族叙事自然化的一种手段，它们的图像传达了创造可信赖货币的政治关切。