New Zealand Issues Hobbit Money
9th October 2012
Why not? It makes as much sense as whatever it is Ben Bernanke is doing … if, indeed, he is doing anything at all.
I’d rather have a dollar coin with Bilbo’s face on it than whoever is the feminist-icon-of-the-moment.
October 9th, 2012 at 12:08
Hobbit money would be made of silver or gold, or at least backed by a basket of commodities (probably agricultural items with long shelf lives).
Sign me up. I welcome the ascendancy of Bag End over the Fed.
October 9th, 2012 at 13:22
I think the gov’t still has a pile of Susan B. Anthony coins left over from the Carter Admin. They could make a run of Pelosi’s – her likeness on one side and a broomstick on the other. No good for a coin toss; both sides would be tails.
October 10th, 2012 at 16:09
The problem with one dollar coins is that all the recent issues have looked too much like quarters in size and color. It was true for the Susans, and the Sakys.
If they’d take a page from the Canadian ‘toony’, we’d have a good-looking coin not mistakable for anything else. But I guess you can’t expect sense…