Coin Propaganda of the Colonial Empires in the Afro- Asian World
The article analyses the almost unexplored problem of the role of metallic money as a means of ideological indoctrination on the material of colonial powers in Asia and Africa. The author shows how the appearance of the coins of colonial empires acting as a component of «soft power» was meant to suggest to the subjects the idea of the might, firmness and justice of the imperial power.