The Face of Value™

Every civilization imprints its soul onto the surface of its money, forging beauty as a mask for power. This IP codifies how nations manipulate design, iconography, and trust to stabilize (or sabotage) their own legitimacy.

This work reframes currency as a diagnostic instrument that exposes the psychological machinery of states and the fault lines beneath their myths. It contextualizes banknote design as a geopolitical operating system that escalates, conceals, and circulates national identity. It formalizes a scalable framework for reading culture through its smallest, most propagated artifact—turning every banknote into a forensic portal for understanding power.