It’s in the coins where I found inspiration

I remembered many stories in my life which featured coins

Every Christmas when we were young children, we would visit our grandfather, Roland. He gave us each three precious bright pennies and an orange!

In 1991 after the First Gulf War, we returned to visit family in Jordan

While there we visited the ancient Nabatean city, Petra. We were the only visitors there. We met a guide called Herod. As he guided us through the ancient city, he pointed out the old rubbish heap where recent rains had uncovered bits of broken pottery along with some very old coins.

I recently read a novel based on a true story. In the 1700’s in a remote moorland region of Yorkshire there lived a gang called The Cragg Vale Coiners. Needless to say the gang leader was caught and hanged at the gallows in York

This inspired me to pause and consider how coin-clipping and banknotes forgery, the devaluing of currency and printing large amounts of bank notes, are possibly the “two sides of the same coin”

I asked Chat GPT who informed me two are illegal.

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Commercial fabric. Discharged fabric. Vilene interfacing as batting

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Janine Ibbini. Abu Dhabi, UAE