Richard Seaford asserts that monetary currency necessitates an antithesis of sign and substance, whereby the sign becomes decisive, and implies an ideal substance underlying the tangible reality.
The meaning of coinage is value (coins stpred value throufg agreed upon represenratipn) but it came to be value itself. The cashless society further abstracts this representation to the poins that no physical markers exist and replaced by:£, $, €, ¥, etc
