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And that’s basically it!
Just collapse already! This is just getting silly at this point.
On the new three-dollar bill?
Well, it would be about as legit.
Might grab one. Stick it in my coin collection next to the reichmarks my poppy picked up while killing nazis
Well you should have to kill a nazi for a trophy. Stolen valour and all that...
kill a nazi to get a coin commemorating a nazi's killing. Hmm. Better get another coin just in case.
It would be fun to draw little X's over his eyes on every bill.
They are coins, so drill holes in the neck
Isn't the dollar due to collapse due to foreign sanctions against the Trump regime tariffs?
Poetic.
New currency might be plastic.
Can't wait to use my kirk bucks at the strippers. It's what he would've wanted
Ironically, the coin will be roughly the same diameter as the hole in his neck
Surely toilet paper would be a more appropriate medium to carry his semblance.
these people have no sense of history.
Will probably be a MAGA coin that isn’t even legal tender so Trump can fleece his followers even more.
It'll cost as much as a gold coin but will be made out of zink.
fake zinc?
Fake-zinc plated piece of fake iron
Gilded lead would be so funny.
It will be gold plated to be sold as "gold coin"
Fast forward to 2030...
" That will be 13 Kirks"
" Here's a Rogan and a Shapiro, keep the change"
"A trump" will be used to refer to both a 100 monies or a rape.
"It's all about the Trumps."
Isn't the word "minted" not more correct as this is about commemorative coins?
Not if you just slap a sticker on them. It's also cheaper that way.
Making the currency even more worthless...
Silver dollar coins? Can't wait to buy as many as I can so I can melt them down and use them as Antifa challenge coins or something along those lines.
they'll be silver-ish
What a fucking joke...
Never Harriet Tubman though.
I wonder if there's a reason why? Anyone know???
She rescued what, a few thousand people? Kirk offended millions!
Mysteriously, so did Harriet Tubman.
I assume Charlie-Kirk-Lied is going to be the party anthem too?
I hate the idiots in charge of this country.
Does anyone living in a sane country wanna do a greencard marriage thing? I'm a good cook, enjoy keeping my space clean, and am a fairly experienced flatterer, if that sweetens the pot any.
.....pretty please? :(
I will suck literally anything.
Make it a bill so we can wipe our ass with it. Burn it. Deface it. All that fun stuff.
They're going to double, triple, quadruple down. They are prepared to die on this hill although they don't expect to. There is no reasoning with this scum.
Ah lads..... You've gone too far now. C'mon. How in the name of sweet baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all his carpenter friends is this not an onion? C'mon now. Seriously.
These coins will never circulate.
Commemorative coins like this are usually sold at a significant markup (even beyond the fact a "silver dollar" has about $30 worth of silver at today's bullion prices. Some of the markup is often set aside for a fund-raising purpose.
These will go directly into the albums of coin collectors, who to be blunt, tend to skew old, white, and MAGA. (If you go to a coin show, there will be plenty of right wing and Trump paraphernalia).
The ironic thing is that "really successful" commemorative coins tend to not appreciate well, because they glut any market. The most valuable modern coins tend to be either stuff that was deliberately underproduced (example: the 1996-W silver eagle that was only available with the purchase of almost two ounces of gold coins) or stuff that was ugly and unexciting and so they produced far less than the original allotment.
There are plenty of people who drag down their inheritance of 1970s proof sets, mail-order/shop-at-home products that are $10 worth of coin in $100 worth of packaging, high-markup bullion items, and market-glut commemoratives, just to discover that Grandpa should have bought AAPL instead. Often the "investment" didn't even beat inflation, and in the worst cases, they actually lost money in nominal dollar terms. I suspect a bag full of Kirk dollars would be a red flag to any appraiser in 2050.
AKA the Beanie Baby Effect. Everyone thought beanie babies were going to be collectibles, so everyone hoarded them and tried to keep them in good condition. The result is that they’re all basically worthless, because everyone who would want them already has them.
Yup. Baseball cards too. When I was young, an uncle would always buy me a complete set of baseball cards for that year. Well, turns out when every baseball card collector is doing the same thing, there really isn't any scarcity. They were 60 bucks a set in the 90s and they're 60 bucks on ebay today.
Reminds me of comic books. Comic books had a boom, with some selling multiple versions of the same issue with different covers "for collectors" and enthusiasts snapped them all up, kept them safe, stored them in plastic, went out of their way to make sure their collections were complete, only to fall on hard times and find out their collections were worth a fraction of what they spent on them when they tried to sell. Turns out that the Early Spiderman or Superman comics were worth alot of money because most printed copies ended up in the trash creating scarcity.