Someone needs to make a comedy set in gavelkind times, you could have a running bit where there's a plague going around and every half hour or so, you hear church bells to denote that the latest new king has died, and everyone groans in annoyance before flipping over all the banners and flags to reveal the new coat of arms on the other side, and they're all racing each other through the muddy town square to the bank(?) to exchange their worthless coins for identical coins with the new guy's face on them.
The last part we already sort of have. King Charles III of England's new banknotes have finally started to enter circulation, but he'll probably be dead before they fully phase out the old Queen Elizabeth banknotes. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxwwe9ndlkmo
Someone needs to make a comedy set in gavelkind times, you could have a running bit where there's a plague going around and every half hour or so, you hear church bells to denote that the latest new king has died, and everyone groans in annoyance before flipping over all the banners and flags to reveal the new coat of arms on the other side, and they're all racing each other through the muddy town square to the bank(?) to exchange their worthless coins for identical coins with the new guy's face on them.
The last part we already sort of have. King Charles III of England's new banknotes have finally started to enter circulation, but he'll probably be dead before they fully phase out the old Queen Elizabeth banknotes. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxwwe9ndlkmo