Flemish coins with a lion in a helmet were called лpot bearer¬, Prussian coins with an eagle got a name Ч лbat¬. There were satirical coins with Pope and cardinal. When these coins were turned the pope Ч the cardinal changed into a devil or a jester. The introduction of paper money turned into farce after Louis XIVТs death. Assistants of Lau, the designer of paper money, were drawn sitting under foolТs cap. Louis XIV appeared on the coins of 1792 (after-revolutionary) to be as a fat, bombastic man, though he used to be described as a handsome person in 1789.

In Russia the money power got an image of a devil tempter that attracts people;e away from God. Stinginess was considered as one of human sins, and was ridiculed by satirists. Gillray depicted a king and a queen with arms round money sacks; minister Pitt as Midas turning everything not in gold but in paper. Many caricaturists devoted their pictures to the money subject as it touches not only the interests of a state but also every single person.

Money was the ideological weapon during the Civil War in Russia.

In the years of socialism building dollar was declared the symbol of devil. Dollar was an obligatory detail in political caricatures. Rich people were drawn with heads Ч purses (T.-T. Heinz лSimplitsissimus¬, 1914), bellies Ч money sacks (Yu. Ganf лcrocodile¬, 1929). Caricaturists often design their own currency (Odessa, 1989, Leningrad, 1989). There is a lot of funny slang for лmoney¬.