[Link] A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision to do so, former US Mint director says

Read: 20/10/2021 www.businessinsider.com

Philip Diehl, the director of the US Mint from 1994 to 2000, told Axios that the agency had no shortage of platinum coin blanks. That's the metal required to make such a coin, according to the law that the entire idea is based on.

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