Physical Moon Unit Currency Designs

[Radyin]

Yesterday's LRL inspired me to try my hand at designing some coins and paper currency for the Moon Unit, the Moonbase's own currency.

I asked Graham, and he said that the consensus is that the Moon Unit is structured like the Japanese Yen, but you use metric prefixes for large numbers.

Graham Stark ‏@Graham_LRR
@robertbmtg Asked around: we’ve decided that they’re like Yen, but if the numbers get too big you can use metric prefixes. Kilomoon = 1000 (Link)

The yen uses coins for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500. There are also bank notes in 1000, 5000, and 10000. I don't think I have it in me to design that many objects, so I was thinking 1, 10, and 100 coins and 1000, 5000, and 10000 notes.

Here's my question to you all. Who should be on what value of currency? Should it be cast members or characters? Right now, I'm thinking about Spoopifer on the 1 Moon Unit coin (so many ghosts in your pocket) and Gib for the most valuable note (add a 1,000,000 Moon Unit bill so it would be a Megamoon?).

What do you all think?

[My pseudonym is Ix]

I like the idea of a truly LUDICROUS exchange rate, with everything lower than a Kilomoon being dealt with via coinage. The reverse of each note is rented out for advertising space. So:

Kilomoon: Spoopifer, with a background of smaller, fainter Spoopifers forming a disturbing watermark. Reverse is a QR code leading to antisun.org
Ten Kilomoon: An incredibly detailed mural of the Matt Frump face. Watermark says EVERYTHING IS FINE. Reverse is an advert for QWRP FM.
Hundred Kilomoon: Krog and Torg standing valiantly atop a prone Hurk. Reverse is an advert for 'The Whole Story' with Nigel Fitzgerald-Brewer. Watermark is a craftily snuck-in advert for vacations in Snorsh, as proudly announced by Princess Kathleen.
Megamoon: 64K looking street AF. Watermark is David van der Punch lined up to take a shot at Ice Tray. Reverse is an advert for the services of the 7th City Heroes.
Ten Megamoon: Warriors of Darkness surrounding the chairman of Evil Inc. Watermark is Beej gurning furiously. Reverse is an advert for Kane and Crowthorne Mercenary Solutions.
Hundred Megamoon: Story Guy. The watermark is Johnny. Reverse is an advertisement for Dave's Lumber and Lumbar supplies (changes quarterly)
Gigamoon: Gibb. Reverse is also Gibb, but this time sitting on a giant throne and surveying his kingdom. Watermark is Spot the Dog.

[TStodden]

How many Moons per Desert Bucks? (2.3 Million?)

[abyssalCompiler]

Maybe Spot for the 10 Moon Units coin?

[Arclight_Dynamo]

So... any Moon Unit with Gibb on it has got to be called a "Gibbous Moon Unit," right?

*Runs*

[Darkflame]

The Coins should have notches that allow interlocking into structures.
Not LRR related really. I just always wanted a currency that did that.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

So... you're saying that the coins should be Penrose Tiles?

[Robo4900]

I am in support of this idea. Sounds really cool, and the Penrose Tiles reference is really cool.

(Oh, and in case there's anyone who doesn't know -- the earliest ideas for the LRR website had a penrose tiles theme instead of a Commodore 64 theme)

[Paul]

I have no idea if it is a good idea or what it would be used for, but there are tutorials online for making a custom Bitcoin-like crypto currency and it turns out that is actually not that hard.

Not saying that is happening, but it is something to think about...

[Darkflame]

Theres even a generator for them;
http://build-a-co.in/

Meaning theres probably thousands of "currencys" out there used by just 1 person each