As the US Congress works through the latest debt limit crisis, it seems likely that the minting a trillion dollar coin will come up again.  It occurred to us in the HVAMC that, to our knowledge, nobody has proposed a design for the trillion dollar coin.  We offer a modest example here.

However, in designing this coin, we realized (based on an occasional reading of Paul Krugman’s NYT column) that we were breaking new ground in modern currency theory.  This coin, supported by our proprietary blockhead chain technology, is designed for a post-modern, industry 4.0 based society.  It is gluten free, fully vegan and available as a non-fungible token.  Or perhaps as an anti-fungal token.  We’re still trying to figure out the difference.  We submit this coin as an example of the natural successor to cyber currencies where each coin is unique, artisanally crafted and worth whatever we say it’s worth.  This is art as currency where it will never be sullied by using it in something as crude as a economic transaction.

For those interested in technical details, this coin was created from photographs using a Grasshopper Definition written by Prof. Aaron Nelson and printed on a Stratasys J735 polyjet printer.  The coin was finished by Kat Wilson by coating with a dilute solution of black paint which was then removed leaving paint in the depressions to heighten contrast.

Keep On Printing!

Dan

PS Aaron insisted on putting my face on the coin.  I have no idea why.

PPS We are offering this for sale at the modest cost of 1/1000 of the face value. We promise to never make another one like it unless we really want to.

PPPS If you work for the US Treasury, this is all a joke.

PPPPS It’s been a really long semester.