Every currency union chooses symbols of common cultural values for its coins and notes, and these symbols become part of the sense of shared identity. We see the human faces on the notes so often that they come to seem like family, creating what the political scientist Benedict Anderson called the “imagined community” that underlies and sustains a sense of nationhood.
所有货币联盟都会选择硬币和钞票上的共同文化价值符号，这些符号也将成为共同身份感的一部分。我们与钞票上的面孔朝夕相处，他们就好像是我们的家人一样，这催生出一种政治学家本尼迪克特·安德森（Benedict Anderson）所谓的“想象共同体”，而想象共同体正是产生和维持民族感的基础。