Sir, - If someone was entrusted with putting coins from Dublin's great and good into the time capsule that was recently unearthed at the Nelson Pillar site, and if he decided to keep them for himself, then he obviously needed them more than posterity did.
And as the immortal Boyle Roche remarked, "Why should we care about posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?"- Yours, etc.,
Brian Maye, Mountain View Road, Dublin 6.