They are both aspiring to inalterability, whilst they are both destined to circulate from hand to hand and from mind to mind. And thirdly, both culture and money, poems and coins belong to the people.
Our currency belongs to the people of Europe in a very deep sense: it is their own confidence in their currency which makes it a successful medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value. Our culture is the wealth of literature and art that the confidence of the people has decided to select and preserve over time.