A trillion-dollar coin sounds unbelievable. Here’s what it could look like
Four designers offer their take on what we could put on a trillion-dollar coin—if we ever need it.
As the Senate was moving toward passage of a federal budget bill, the preceding months of wrangling and brinksmanship had already helped bring the most famous coin on the planet (after Batman’s Giant Penny) back into the public consciousness. When achieving some sort of compromise between Congress and the Biden administration seemed unlikely, the concept of the trillion-dollar coin reemerged from an obscure subsection of the United States Commemorative Coin Act of 1996, with the help of the same creative economists who birthed it into our collective imagination back in 2011.
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