Stamps and Coins of National Identity

Last pics from Lahore Museum (though I missed entire wings, like the Chinese wing). These are some stamps and coins; beautiful, but also another way of marking and establishing national identity. See also Wole Soyinka’s terrific sex farce, _The Lion and the Jewel_, where a stamp-making machine plays a key role in the advent of modernity.

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