Private Coinage

The idea of private coinage seems so strange today that it is worth examining carefully. We are used to thinking of coinage as a "necessity of sovereignty." Yet, after all, we are not wedded to a "royal prerogative," and it is the American concept that sovereignty rests, not in government, but in the people. How would private coinage work? In the same way as any other business.

But what makes one piece of paper "money" and another one not, if I can hold either of them in my hand and trade it for something I want?

Money is the Schrödinger's Cat of economics.