The mint should offer to put your face on a single coin, for $101,000 dollars. The coin would have a face value of $100,000 and be legal tender, so really the net cost would only be $1000, right? But who’s gonna spend a coin with their face on it? It’s basically a way of persuasing people to reduce the velocity of currency by making the inflation cost of holding cash worth bearing. (regulators should declare it imprudent for banks to lend against coin.)

inspired by @rohan