Wired, in its January 10, 2013 article, reports that the size of a $ 1 trillion platinum coin should be quite massive.
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Of course this isn’t what is being
considered, but what if the U.S. Treasury minted a coin from $1 trillion
worth of platinum?
Such a coin would weigh 42,778,918
pounds — the equivalent of nearly seven Saturn V rockets
— and occupy 31,947 cubic feet.
What would this coin look like?
If
it had the same proportions as the U.S. dollar coin, we calculated it would
be roughly 80 feet wide and 6 feet thick. Though not a very practical coin,
it would have the benefit of being really difficult to steal.
But commodity money disappeared a long
time ago, so let’s say the government decides to mint an actual
trillion-dollar coin, and makes it out of pure platinum at the same size as
the U.S. silver dollar; though the coin would be worth $1 trillion, the
platinum itself would only be worth a bit more than $1,200.
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Read the rest of the article at
Wired
