Debased Coinage

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“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.”
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“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
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