# What should be on the trillion dollar coin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949 "2011-07-31T19:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/41 "2011-08-02T06:26:14Z")
Samuel L. Jackson on one side. His wisdom, “Spend it wisely, muthafucka” on the other. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/42 "2011-08-02T07:02:50Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > Your misprint instantly makes it worth 50 billion more! Brilliant! Are you talking about the hidden lower-case L? I had to use that because the board won’t let you post all upper-case letters. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/43 "2011-08-03T18:12:46Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > They should be a couple of lead slugs, with “1 trillion buckaroos” imprinted on the outside. > > To get them into circulation, they should go down the street to the 7-11 and buy a large slushy. > > “Can you break a trillion?” Unfortunately they keep less than $100 in cash on the premises. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/44 "2011-08-03T19:27:12Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > Your misprint instantly makes it worth 50 billion more! Brilliant! Hm? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/45 "2011-08-04T12:29:41Z")
Uncle Sam decked out like a gangsta rapper - baggy pants, big dollar sign hanging from a chain around his neck, garish sunglasses, with his hand up to his face making that universally known Vulcan death grip-like gangsta gesture. On the back it’d say “One Trillion Dollars, Mothafucka.” ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/46 "2011-08-04T22:48:13Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Hm? Co1n? Obama’s face on one side. “Change we can believe in” on the other. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/47 "2011-08-05T00:26:02Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > Co1n? “THlS” with a small L instead of capital I. I didn’t notice it either. > [@Gukumatz](#): > > Obama’s face on one side. > > “Change we can believe in” on the other. Win. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/48 "2011-08-05T00:34:19Z")
I’ve been wondering how big this coin would be. The Royal Canadian Mint actually created a one-million-dollar gold coin a while back; it’s the size of a manhole cover and is made of 100 kg of fine gold. (They sold several.) So, would a _trillion_-dollar platinum coin be bigger? Covered in fine gems? Engraved with plutonium-plated holograms? Or would they take the other tack and make it inconsequential-looking, such as dull-grey and smaller than a dime? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/49 "2011-08-05T13:13:19Z")
100kg? Chump change. Make the trillion out of a _cubic foot_ of gold = 1,200 lbs. Crust it up with plutonium, diamonds, hell, have it hand engraved and burnished bright as the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/50 "2011-08-05T14:58:45Z")
It should just be blank, with a symbolic bullet hole through the middle of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/51 "2011-08-06T00:25:56Z")
A picture of Confucius and “100 yuan” ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949/52 "2013-01-08T21:17:28Z")
With the idea of a trillion dollar coin being kicked around again, I thought I’d revive this thread. Anyway, I kind of liked Stephen Colbert’s idea: > **[Colbert Relentlessly Mocks ‘Silly’ Idea To Solve Debt Crisis With...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/colbert-relentlessly-mocks-silly-idea-to-solve-debt-crisis-with-trillion-dollar-coin/)** > > n his first show back after an extended holiday vacation, Stephen Colbert chose to look forward to the oncoming debt ceiling crisis, rather than look back at all of the stories he missed. Colbert was particularly outraged by an idea that's been... > [@](#): > > Towards the end of the segment, he goes on to imagine what America would put on such a coin and eventually settles on the Charmin bears. Because, “when you pull an idea like this out of your ass, you’re going to need something soft.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-on-the-trillion-dollar-coin/590949.md?page=2)