The trillion-dollar coin is so amusing because it's so blatantly disingenuous. I mean, no one's seriously going to treat the coin as actual money, but rather a

The trillion-dollar coin is so amusing because it's so blatantly disingenuous. I mean, no one's seriously going to treat the coin as actual money, but rather as a symbolic trinket. For example, say someone steals a trillion-dollar coin; would Forbes rocket them to the top of the richest-people list? And could they ever actually spend the coin in any way? I mean, sure, the coin'd have value as a piece of artwork, but no one'd seriously regard it as actual money.