re: #482 lawhawk
Yeah, there’s a few people complaining that there’s no way you can mint a $1t coin because it would be the size of the Titanic if minted in platinum. That, of course, ignores that the government can set the value of a piece of paper or coin at whatever denomination it sees fit. The Mint sets the price of a coin of a certain size as a quarter dollar, but the value of the actual metal is a few pennies (it’s actually most cost effective for the mint to strike a quarter than a penny, which is an argument to eliminate the penny from circulation due to costs to make).
I was exchanging some currency in Turkey once, and the teller deducted some of the value of my $20 bill because a corner was torn off. I could not at the time explain very well how money really works in English, let alone Turkish.