synecdoche
(en)
a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)
The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.
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