Proginoskes Wrote:The (voluntary) interfactional standard currency is the Sol Dollar, correct?The Solar Credit, yes. It's pegged at parity to the Australia Dollar.
Proginoskes Wrote:The Bank of Sol has a standards document (describing dimensions, mass, material, and edge for each denomination) to which coins must comply in order to be guaranteed universal recognition as S$ tender, and will issue common-side dies to any factional mint that requests them. S$ coins don't have to use the common side, but part of the coin standard requires the coin's value to be clearly visible in arabic numerals on the reverse (the common side is the reverse wherever it is used). Similar rules govern banknotes.I'm thinking that the obverse should be the common side. In most countries that issue commemorative coins, the obverse (usually but not always a person's profile) remains constant while the reverse is changed to depict something related to what's being commemorated.
Going with that, here are some suggested common values and obverse profiles (not set in stone):
- $0.01 (do we want to bother with a penny-equivalent as hard currency?)
- $0.05: Byron K. Lichtenberg (first private citizen in space)
- $0.10: ??not yet named?? (first person on Ganymede)
- $0.20: Katz Schrödinger (first Fen in space)
- $0.25: Alan Shepard (first to play a game on the Moon)
- $0.50: John Glenn (oldest person in space, pre-Wave)
- $1: Yuri Gagarin (first person in space)
- $2: Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space)
- $5: Neil Armstrong (first person on the Moon)
- $10: ??not yet named?? (first person on Mars)
- $20: the crew of the Prometheus (first people to reach another star)
- $50: Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov (only people to die in space, pre-Wave - all other astronaut/cosmonaut fatalities were on the ground or in atmosphere. This one, if it's issued at all by a faction, is specified as being bimetallic with a black-enameled rim)
I've listed both $0.20 and $0.25 because some folks will want to use only the small change that ends with a zero (to keep the math easy) while others will want to use the small change that matches US small change (because that's what they're used to).
Assuming we use those, these are the StellviaCorp proof-set currency reverse designs (StellviaCorp uses the Australian Dollar for day-to-day business; these are for the numismatic and tourist markets). Note that not all demoninations are issued:
- $0.10: StellviaCorp logo
- $0.50: Fenspace Convention flag
- $1: Stellvia station
- $5: varies by year, and usually relates to the milestone event for StellviaCorp the previous year
- $10: Ad Astra at Kandor City
- $50 (first included in the 2013 proof set, which was delayed two months just for this coin): Crystal Osaka
Rob Kelk
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