"It was tradition for the king to bury a full set of new coins from that year in the foundations of new and important buildings"<br><br>Thanks, I needed that reminder that monarchies and traditions are dumb*.<br><br>*Obviously not everything that people do that is a tradition is dumb, but the reason to do something should be that there's a benefit, not just because it's a tradition.,(reply>), The benefit here is the social glue and promotion of social unity through that. A group of people with shared rituals and traditions are more cohesive in general.