If Trump and Bessent really want to change history, they will introduce The Golden Christmas Coin, a $5 golden-colored piece of currency slightly larger than the current dollar coins.
Releasing these beauties before or after Thanksgiving every year, and only during the Christmas shopping season, would boost seasonal sales, and inject money into the economy while cutting public debt more than traditional coin costs.
We need only look north for an example of how to do it. In 1987, the Canadian government introduced the Loonie, a gold-colored coin, that surpassed the popularity of the paper Canadian dollar. Production costs needed a golden-looking coating to the exterior, but the cost of production compared to the value brought in, surpassed the amount of revenue brought in from any other coin.
If Canada can do it, the United States of America can do it one better- design and produce a $10 million a season run of a five-dollar coin every year from November to the end of December, with a Golden Nativity scene on the front. That $5 coin could become the stuff of Christmas shopping promotions.
If the Treasury released a design contest for the rear of the coin- with stipulations for the incorporation of particular items necessary for the coinage (like In God We Trust), the release date could become a focus of national attention every year.
For every American Christian, this coinage would reflect the cultural and spiritual heritage of a vast population of Christians from the generations of all Americans since the founding of this country. It would be the first coin in many years to acknowledge the blessings of God on our land, and the presence of a great cloud of witnesses here below who hail from a nation based on Christian principles.
With a production cost analysis that would lower the debt, the antithesis of the penny and nickel, the Golden Christmas coin could become the next "Golden Ticket," a Christ-honoring form of wealth for spending on your most treasured seasonal gifts.
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