Liens du mois (avril 2026)

• P.G. Ladd, V.M. Dörken VM, The botany of money: geographical and sociological patterns in plant images on currency. Australian Journal of Botany 74 (2026), BT26006. doi:10.1071/BT26006. Analyse rapide des monnaies tout autour du monde reprenant des images de plantes (qui malheureusement ne reprend pas les pièces commémoratives de 2 euros)

Before Union, currency items of many countries featured plants, with oak, grapes and wheat being common; however, on the euro coins, only Finland, Austria and Germany retained
plant images on some of their coins. In the case of Austria and
Germany, these were the same as on the earlier coinage, whereas for Finland, food plants were abandoned and the 2 euro coin featured Rubus chamaemorus, an iconic plant for
Finns, but not the national flower, which is Convallaria majalis
and was on the 10 penni coin from 1990 to 2001.

p. 7.

• Ruth Wouters, Antoon Cox, Annelies Raes, Educational artefacts matter. A collaborative inquiry into the complexity of classrooms, Learning in Context 3 (2026), 100023, ISSN 3050-578X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lecon.2026.100023. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050578X26000052) : utilisation de pièces en euro dans une classe de mathématiques à l’école Eureka à Louvain pour enseigner les fractions. “This school specializes in supporting pupils with (neuro)diverse needs, from dyslexia to giftedness.”

• M. Ogrin, P. Mikša, Slovenian Mountain Attachment as a Hallmark of a Nation, In: Zorn, M., Pelcer-Vujačić, O., Mikša, P. (eds), Discourses on Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia. 2026. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99017-5_15

After the disintegration of the multinational state [= Yougoslavie] and the establishment of the Slovene nation-state in 1991, the appropriation of the mountain world as a fundamental building block of Slovenian national identity became self-evident and ubiquitous in Slovenian high and mass culture as well as in the public space. With the introduction of the euro, Triglav also found its place on the national side of the 50-cent coin, and in this way continues, similarly as in the socialist era, to symbolize the (mountain) identity of Slovenes in a multinational European connection.

• M. Ghelfi, L. Marchesi, F. Briziarelli et al., How online gambling fits into people’s lives: qualitative research on nonproblem gamblers, Curr Psychol 45, 46 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08836-2

This is likely related to the fact that gambling is an established habit in their life, often associated with specific periodic activities (e.g., walking with relatives, shopping, grabbing coffee at bars, nights out). Offline scratch cards are often bought after shopping or following purchases in bars or tobacco shops using the “change”. For one participant, the scratch card is indeed part of the shopping list, as he reported “I go to the bar, have my coffee, usually I try to pay with the 10-euro (banknote)…so then, with the change of 9-euro (coins), I go and play the (slot) machine” Int. 13.

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For example, the use of diminutives, such as “penni-ish”, or phrases such as “I’ll throw in some coins” or “I’ll play with nothing”, recurred throughout the interviews. This behaviour appears to happen in response to social desirability to avoid the stigma by minimizing their gambling habit, calling themselves occasional players, or mild players.

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This gambler expressed the difference between online and offline scratch cards, “You do it, but it’s an automatic thing. It’s not like you experience it intensely, like when I scratch normally with the coin” Int. 9.

• Submission by Croatia for formal approval by the Council of a draft design for a 2 euro commemorative coin (27 mars 2026) : Croatie, 2 euros commémorative ; le thème et le design sont gardés confidentiels. (Voir aussi 7 avril)
• Submission by Ireland for formal approval by the Council of draft design for 2 euro commemorative coin (1er avril 2026) : Irlande, 2 euros commémorative ; le thème et le design sont gardés confidentiels. Approuvé le 9 avril.
• Submission by Croatia for formal approval by the Council of a draft design for a 2 euro commemorative coin (7 avril 2026) : Croatie, 2 euros commémorative ; le thème et le design sont gardés confidentiels. Il semble que ce soit une nouvelle version de la demande du 27 mars. Approuvé le 15 avril.
• K. Saalbach, Microstates and the EU (working paper, 7 avril 2026) : utile synthèse des relations entre les micro-états européens et l’Union Européenne, abordant notamment leur production de monnaies en euro.
• Matthieu Écoiffier, Orbán, la fin d’un système ? Catherine Horel, historienne : «Le leader hongrois fait de la révolution de 1956 l’objet d’une commémorite où les adversaires du pays sont les communistes mais pas les Russes», Libération (9 avril 2026)
• Submission by Finland for formal approval by the Council of draft design for 2 euro commemorative coin (16 avril 2026) : Finlande, 2 euros commémorative. Thème : les architectes Raili et Reima Pietilä et “leur approche organique de l’architecture moderne”. Image : la façade du Dipoli, un bâtiment réalisé en 1966. Tirage : 204.000 pièces.

Alexis D'Hautcourt

Professeur, Université des Langues Étrangères du Kansai (関西外国語大学, Kansai Gaidai University)

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