European Journal of International Relations 10(1) Table 2 Country-by-Country Summary of Banknotes in Data Set No.with Total Human Country Starting Date No.of Human Figures Banknotes Figures Austria 1825 115 104 123 Belgium 1851 75 75 98 Denmark 1875 55 40 43 Finland 1922 77 48 50 France 1800 98 91 118 GDR 1948 27 12 12 Germany 1876 157 99 120 (incl.FRG) Great Britain 1855 134 132 153 Greece 1841 100 96 129 Ireland 1928 44 44 79 Italy 1896 70 70 74 Luxembourg 1929 16 16 16 Netherlands 1904 64 48 53 Portugal 1847 120 115 125 Spain 1874 151 135 147 Sweden 1874 65 49 84 Totals 1368 1174 1424 Testing the Hypotheses I coded the images on banknotes along the two Meyer/Inglehart-inspired axes-locus of actorhood and nature of goals.The basic coding scheme follows the examples from Table 1.In this section I first present the overall statistical results,and then I discuss those results. Before proceeding to the results,however,I should note some important coding decisions.Two decisions in particular had a significant effect on the overall results-the decisions to code purely ornamental human figures and classical gods as depicting state actorhood.The reasons for these decisions are as follows.In the case of ornamental figures,they are ornamenting state- produced banknotes that themselves are a symbol of state.6 Meanwhile, classical gods,as the rulers of the universe,clearly evoke the functions of state.?There were other coding ambiguities as well,but these were essentially irrelevant to the overall contours of the results.8 Table 3 answers the question of whether there has been secular change in the types of actors depicted in currency images.The results are shown in 12 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.Further reproduction prohibited without permission.Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission