Merchant of Venice

Describe the coin referred to in in the extract.What is the difference between the angel on the coin and angel in the casket?

Extract is from Act-2,Scene-7

from line 52 to 60

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Morocco sees coin stamped with the figure of an angel on one casket. He thinks it is crass because it is merely engraved on the surface where as one casket has a golden angel lying in a bed. Morocco goes for the obvious symbolism that places greater emphasis on the golden angel in bed.