{"id":10229,"date":"2013-12-11T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T13:02:31","slug":"the-economics-of-designing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-designing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Designing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 36pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com\/736x\/69\/54\/39\/695439df9205cad11e305e1af66238c7.jpg\" width=\"557\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US Mint is hiring. Ben Richmond described the opportunity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an economy with stubbornly high unemployment, the Mint is looking to do its part by hiring 20 artists to design American coins.<\/li>\n<li>Artists are paid between $2,000 and $3,000 for each design that they submit.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a $5,000 bonus for submitting a design that actually makes it onto a coin.<\/li>\n<li>Even if a design is accepted that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the coin will make it into general circulation. Many of the Mint&#8217;s coins are commemorative.<\/li>\n<li>While coin designers don&#8217;t get much credit they do get the satisfaction of knowing that they can sneak their initials onto the final design.<\/li>\n<li>The opportunity isn&#8217;t just for any buffoon with a paintbrush. To qualify as an artist one must have five years of experience or a degree among other qualifications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No word on what the designer of a potential <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trillion_Dollar_Coin\">trillion dollar coin<\/a> would get. You can read more about how to apply for the job, the projects you might be tasked with, and where your coins might be distributed over <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/how-to-get-paid-to-design-money\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/how-to-get-paid-to-design-money\">Vice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Mint is hiring. Ben Richmond described the opportunity: In an economy with stubbornly high unemployment, the Mint is looking to do its part by hiring 20 artists to design American coins. Artists are paid between $2,000 and $3,000 for each design that they submit. There&#8217;s a $5,000 bonus for submitting a design that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/695439df9205cad11e305e1af66238c71.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10236,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}