August Challenge - Coin - To Coin a Phrase

Day 3 of Missymoos challenge - Coin: This can be money. Perhaps a coin you see on the ground. One from your wallet.

"To Coin a Phrase" used to mean to invent or create a new phrase (as in the minting of new money), now it has almost reversed in meaning as it is used in reference to an established, well known phrase or saying.

I have chosen a £2 coin (How rich is he? I hear you ask), in recent years a whole range of commemorative coins have been minted, this particular one was to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1807.

To go back to coining a phrase Leo Tolstoy coined this - "Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave"

To go back even further St Paul, writing to Timothy, wrote - "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." You may notice that this is frequently misquoted as "Money is the root of all evil". Money itself can do a great deal of good, but it is the love of (literally the lusting after) money that is the root of all kinds of evil. Bankers and bosses take note!

A note for Lenycato - we're thinking alike again, I had this blip planned yesterday and the text written above at lunchtime, it just goes to show what great minds we have :)