Death of
the Dollar

#1 · 2017

Winter Is Here

The series begins with a challenge to the apparent permanence of dollar power. Through Putin and the idea of an approaching winter, Duane introduces nations seeking an alternative to dollar dependence. The opening release establishes the collection’s central question: what happens when confidence in the dominant monetary order begins to break?

#2 · 2017

Debt and Death V3

Debt and Death V3 brings Silver Shield’s founding message into the numbered series. Its redesigned inscription makes the connection between borrowing, power, and warfare explicit. The meaning is a challenge to the trust placed in financial institutions—and an expression of Duane’s belief in individual responsibility and tangible wealth.

#3 · 2017

Dollar Dragon

Dollar Dragon extends the argument beyond the United States. China becomes the focus of Duane’s account of nations seeking greater monetary independence. The release connects the dollar’s international role with trade, production, and the possibility of a different balance of power. The guide also identifies it as Silver Shield’s first computer-sculpted series design.

#4 · 2017

Blood for Oil

Blood for Oil puts the cost of maintaining power at the center of the collection. The release connects Duane’s criticism of military intervention with the dollar’s role in energy trade. Its message asks collectors to consider the human consequences behind the financial and strategic interests that surround oil.

#5 · 2017

Debt Slave

Debt Slave turns a global monetary argument into a personal one. The issue is freedom: how much control remains over a life already committed to repayment? In the series narrative, debt becomes a form of dependence, and the design asks what it would mean to reclaim responsibility for one’s time and labor.

#6 · 2017

Debt and Death V4

Debt and Death V4 returns to the original warning through a more contemporary banking critique. Its emphasis on continued trust makes repetition part of the message: financial crises can pass while the incentives behind them remain. This edition asks whether institutions have changed, or whether confidence has merely been restored.

#7 · 2017

Debt Means Death

Debt Means Death uses Japan as the setting for Duane’s warning about prolonged indebtedness. The meaning concerns the burden passed from one generation to the next: what happens when obligations consume the future they were supposed to help build? The original release connects monetary dependence with the loss of national vitality.

#8 · 2017

Nataraja Dollar

Nataraja Dollar brings destruction and renewal into the series. Duane uses the symbolism of Shiva’s cosmic dance to imagine the end of a monetary order and the possibility of another. Its message is transformation: the collapse of an illusion can also become the moment when a different understanding takes its place.

#9 · 2017

Government Sacks

Government Sacks challenges the separation between public office and private financial interests. Its title turns the name of a major investment bank into a criticism of political access. Within the collection, this release asks who government serves when the people managing public policy come from the institutions affected by it.

#10 · 2017

La Muerte del Dolar

La Muerte del Dolar brings the perspective of Latin America into the series. Drawing on Day of the Dead symbolism, the release connects monetary power with the memory of intervention and its consequences. Its meaning is remembrance joined with a demand for self-determination: who gets to decide a nation’s future?

#11 · 2017

Das Vierte Reich

Das Vierte Reich extends the series’ monetary critique to Europe. The guide presents the design as a provocative comparison between territorial domination and power exercised through currency. Its place in the collection is to question whether economic arrangements can concentrate authority without requiring the visible force associated with conquest.

#12 · 2017

Moto Debt and Death

Moto Debt and Death confronts the distance between military recruitment and the interests a war may ultimately serve. The guide describes it as an alternative recruiting message. Its meaning asks who bears the sacrifice, who receives the benefit, and whether patriotic language can conceal a much less honorable transaction.

2017

Double Obverse Death Dollar

Combination edition

Double Obverse Death Dollar is cataloged as a combination edition alongside the early numbered releases. It belongs in the collector record without being assigned an invented sequence number. Its significance is the pairing of design faces, which makes edition identification especially important when comparing it with the individual releases.

#13 · 2018

Mark of the Beast

Mark of the Beast asks what might replace a failing monetary order. The release uses apocalyptic symbolism to express Duane’s concern about digital money and centralized control. Its warning is about dependence: a new currency system does not necessarily bring greater freedom simply because it is technologically different.

#14 · 2018

Borg Coin

Borg Coin translates monetary conformity into a science-fiction warning. Assimilation becomes a metaphor for placing wealth inside systems whose rules others control. In the collection’s argument, the question is ownership: whether a balance on a screen provides the same independence that Duane associates with holding a physical asset.

#15 · 2018

Fiat Nevermore

Fiat Nevermore turns the rejection of fiat money into a literary refrain. The reference to Poe gives the release the character of a vow: a lesson about trust that should not be forgotten. Its meaning within the series is refusal—the decision to question the monetary assumptions inherited from the surrounding culture.

#16 · 2018

End the War on Freedom

End the War on Freedom connects monetary power with the policing of personal choice. Its original write-up focuses on cannabis prohibition and the interests surrounding it. This chapter broadens the series beyond currency, asking how political and economic incentives can shape the boundaries of individual freedom.

#17 · 2018

Petro Yuan

Petro Yuan returns to the connection between energy and monetary influence. The design explores Duane’s expectation that alternatives to dollar-based trade could challenge the existing order. Its meaning lies in shifting dependence: the currency used to settle essential trade can become an instrument of international power.

#18 · 2018

Rate Reaper

Rate Reaper gives interest-rate policy a human consequence. In the original series narrative, an economy accustomed to inexpensive borrowing becomes vulnerable when the cost of debt rises. The release is a warning about accumulated dependence: a system can appear stable while its ability to carry obligations is becoming more fragile.

#19 · 2019

Pyramid Scheme

Pyramid Scheme asks collectors to examine the institutions beneath the monetary order. Rather than treating finance as an abstract market, the release presents a hierarchy of influence. Its message is structural: to understand where power resides, look at the relationships between the organizations that issue, govern, and circulate money.

#20 · 2019

Starve the Beast

Starve the Beast moves from criticism toward individual response. The original write-up frames the purchase of tangible silver as a withdrawal of support from a system Duane opposes. Within the collection, the meaning is agency: examining how daily financial choices can express consent, dependence, or a decision to change direction.

#21 · 2019

Dollar Bear

Dollar Bear returns to the series’ Russian theme through the language of a falling market. Gold in Putin’s hand represents preparation for a monetary order under pressure. The design’s message is strategic independence: Duane contrasts reliance on another nation’s currency with the possession of tangible reserves.

#22 · 2019

Global Ponzi Scheme

Global Ponzi Scheme presents the series’ broadest systemic warning. Duane argues that interconnected financial promises can transmit failure across borders and generations. As a collectible, the release records that warning in physical form: a statement that confidence in the system was being challenged before a crisis was universally recognized.

#23 · 2019

Black Swan

Black Swan concerns the limits of certainty. Its original write-up places an unexpected shock against a background of debt and financial vulnerability. The meaning is that the trigger and the underlying weakness are different things: a surprise becomes destructive when it strikes a system already unable to absorb the impact.

#24 · 2019

Inverted Rate Reaper

Inverted Rate Reaper revisits the danger of dependence on borrowing through the inverted yield curve. This follow-up changes the warning from rising rates alone to the signals carried by the relationship between short- and long-term yields. It belongs beside Rate Reaper as a related chapter, rather than an interchangeable edition.

#25 · 2019

No Lie

No Lie is identified as entry #25 in the supplied COA series list. The guide catalogs it in 2019 but supplies no design write-up; the gallery identifies a silver proof bar. It belongs in the checklist, while a fuller account of its intended meaning should wait for supporting release material.

#26 · 2020

Coronavirus Black Swan

Coronavirus Black Swan brings the earlier Black Swan warning into the circumstances of 2020. The release connects a sudden disruption with the fragility described in the previous design. For collectors, it is a dated chapter in the series: the warning about an unforeseen catalyst becomes a response to a specific crisis.

#27 · 2020

Death Eagle

Death Eagle challenges the reassuring symbolism of government-issued money. The guide connects it to Silver Shield’s earlier Warbird and positions it as a critique of the American Silver Eagle. Its meaning is a confrontation between patriotic imagery and Duane’s view of the debt, conflict, and political division behind it.

#28 · 2020

Blinded Liberty V2

Blinded Liberty V2 questions the distance between the language of freedom and the reality of distraction and dependence. It pairs conceptually with Death Eagle as a challenge to familiar American coin imagery. The message asks whether liberty remains meaningful when its symbols are celebrated but its responsibilities are neglected.

#29 · 2021

Debt Means Death — 5 oz

Size edition · 5 oz

This 2021 5 oz edition is separately numbered #29 in the COA sequence. It revisits the earlier design at a different weight, so it should not be counted as a wholly new theme. The meaning concerns the burden passed from one generation to the next: what happens when obligations consume the future they were supposed to help build? The original release connects monetary dependence with the loss of national vitality.

#30 · 2021

Nataraja Dollar — 5 oz

Size edition · 5 oz

This 2021 5 oz edition is separately numbered #30 in the COA sequence. It revisits the earlier design at a different weight, so it should not be counted as a wholly new theme. Duane uses the symbolism of Shiva’s cosmic dance to imagine the end of a monetary order and the possibility of another. Its message is transformation: the collapse of an illusion can also become the moment when a different understanding takes its place.

#31 · 2021

Fiat Nevermore — 5 oz

Size edition · 5 oz

This 2021 5 oz edition is separately numbered #31 in the COA sequence. It revisits the earlier design at a different weight, so it should not be counted as a wholly new theme. The reference to Poe gives the release the character of a vow: a lesson about trust that should not be forgotten. Its meaning within the series is refusal—the decision to question the monetary assumptions inherited from the surrounding culture.

#32 · 2021

Petro Yuan — 5 oz

Size edition · 5 oz

This 2021 5 oz edition is separately numbered #32 in the COA sequence. It revisits the earlier design at a different weight, so it should not be counted as a wholly new theme. The design explores Duane’s expectation that alternatives to dollar-based trade could challenge the existing order. Its meaning lies in shifting dependence: the currency used to settle essential trade can become an instrument of international power.

#33 · 2021

La Muerte del Dolar — 5 oz

Size edition · 5 oz

This 2021 5 oz edition is separately numbered #33 in the COA sequence. It revisits the earlier design at a different weight, so it should not be counted as a wholly new theme. Drawing on Day of the Dead symbolism, the release connects monetary power with the memory of intervention and its consequences. Its meaning is remembrance joined with a demand for self-determination: who gets to decide a nation’s future?

#34 · 2021

March of the Beast

March of the Beast is listed as #34 in the COA series sequence and appears in the 2021 catalog. Its title continues the collection’s recurring warning about control. The guide does not include an explanatory write-up, so a more specific account of its intended symbolism remains to be established.

#35 · 2021

The Silver Lion

The Silver Lion is explicitly identified as #35 in the gallery and COA list. It gives the series a named silver-centered chapter following its earlier warnings. The catalog does not supply Chris’s explanation of the design; that distinction matters when separating a collector’s interpretation from a documented release message.

2021

Blinded Liberty

Later catalog edition

The master catalog lists this design again in 2021. Keep this record separate from the earlier release until its weight, finish, and reverse are matched. It pairs conceptually with Death Eagle as a challenge to familiar American coin imagery. The message asks whether liberty remains meaningful when its symbols are celebrated but its responsibilities are neglected.

#36 · 2022

Chaos Out of Order

Chaos Out of Order is the numbered #36 release, cataloged in 2022. Its title turns a familiar promise of order into a question about instability. The records establish its place in the series but do not supply an official explanation. It is distinct from the later 2025 design, Order Out of Chaos.

#37 · 2022

Transitory Inflation

Transitory Inflation places a contested economic phrase inside the series’ monetary critique. Its title invites collectors to consider the gap between temporary reassurance and the experience of rising costs. The 2022 catalog and COA list establish the release, while a longer interpretation should be checked against its original write-up.

#38 · 2022

You Have Been Warned

You Have Been Warned makes the act of recording a warning its central statement. Within this collection, the title addresses the observer directly: awareness carries a responsibility to consider what comes next. The COA list includes both 1 oz and 2 oz editions; their release details must remain distinct.

#41 · 2024

Debt Free Dollar

Debt Free Dollar is listed as #41 and cataloged in 2024. Its title states an alternative to the debt-centered monetary system criticized throughout the collection. The record identifies a 1 oz entry; the guide does not contain a fuller release explanation, so the title’s promise should not be expanded into an unsupported claim.

2024

King Dollar

King Dollar responds to political promises of monetary strength. The release text discusses energy, tariffs, military power, and government efficiency as parts of that vision. Within the collection, it captures the tension between a currency presented as a source of national strength and the policies required to sustain that position.

2024

You Have Been Warned

Later catalog edition

The master catalog lists this design again in 2024. Keep this record separate from the earlier release until its weight, finish, and reverse are matched. Within this collection, the title addresses the observer directly: awareness carries a responsibility to consider what comes next. The COA list includes both 1 oz and 2 oz editions; their release details must remain distinct.

2025

Black Swan

Later catalog edition

The master catalog lists this design again in 2025. Keep this record separate from the earlier release until its weight, finish, and reverse are matched. Its original write-up places an unexpected shock against a background of debt and financial vulnerability. The meaning is that the trigger and the underlying weakness are different things: a surprise becomes destructive when it strikes a system already unable to absorb the impact.

2025

Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty is explicitly placed in Death of the Dollar by the gallery and the COA list. It returns the symbol of American freedom to the series’ debate about money and power. The supplied catalog has no official write-up, so this identification should remain separate from the older Blinded Liberty designs.

2025

No More Bankster

No More Bankster directs the series’ criticism toward the relationship between warfare and financial gain. The release text contrasts service to a country with service to those who profit from conflict. Its message is a demand to reconsider loyalty: whose interests deserve the sacrifices asked of soldiers and their families?

2025

Order Out of Chaos

Order Out of Chaos introduces a possibility of release from the cycles criticized throughout the series. The release text imagines a Jubilee, the forgiveness of debts, and a move away from conflict. Its meaning is renewal through responsibility: discipline and strength redirected toward rebuilding rather than perpetuating destruction.

2025

PUTIN POPCORN

Putin Popcorn returns a recurring figure from the series’ opening chapter. Its placement in Death of the Dollar is confirmed by the gallery and COA list. The guide does not include the original explanation; it should be presented as a later related release without assigning it a new sequence number.

2025

Printer Is Coming

Printer Is Coming turns anticipation into a warning about purchasing power. The release text presents monetary expansion as a threat to savers and places physical silver in opposition to expandable currency. Its role in the series is to connect policy choices with household consequences, giving an abstract monetary argument an immediate personal stake.

2025

Stack or Starve

Stack or Starve presents the series’ preparedness message in its starkest form. The release text imagines a breakdown of ordinary payments and emphasizes tangible resources. As an artistic statement, the release asks what remains useful when trust and infrastructure fail, and turns the question of wealth into a question of practical independence.

2025

Trade War

Trade War is a 2025 continuation identified in both the gallery and COA series list. Its title brings trade conflict into the collection’s exploration of monetary and national power. A supplied original explanation was not located, so the page preserves its identity without inventing specific policy claims or release symbolism.

2025

Trade War 2

Trade War 2 is a separately named continuation of the 2025 trade-conflict theme. It should remain distinct from the first Trade War release in a collector’s checklist. The sources confirm series membership but do not provide a fuller write-up from which to establish the intended differences in meaning.

2026

A Nation Falls

A Nation Falls locates national decline in the standards a society accepts. The release text makes tolerance of deterioration, rather than outside force alone, the central warning. Within Death of the Dollar, the release connects institutional strength to personal judgment: what people permit can shape the country they eventually inherit.

2026

All Wars

All Wars brings the series back to the connection between borrowing and conflict. Its release text portrays warfare as an enterprise whose financial obligations outlast the battlefield. The central message is the inheritance left to survivors: a war ends for some, while its debts and consequences continue for others.

2026

CCP Silver Stop

CCP Silver Stop treats silver as a strategic resource as well as a monetary metal. The release text focuses on control over supply and the leverage that control can create. Within the series, the release expands the question of power from who issues money to who can obtain the material that industry requires.

2026

Death of Petro Dollar

Death of Petro Dollar returns to the link between oil, currency, and international influence. The release text describes the erosion of an established arrangement, rather than the dollar disappearing overnight. Its meaning is a change in dependence: a monetary order can lose its unquestioned position long before it loses every practical use.

2026

Dollar Demon

Dollar Demon personifies the destructive power Duane attributes to monetary dominance. Its release text connects currency with coercion, dependence, and conflict. The meaning is the reversal of a reassuring symbol: money presented as stability becomes a force that can impose costs on people who have little control over its use.

2026

I Am the House

I Am the House challenges the confidence of those who believe they control the financial game. The release text uses a casino metaphor to question whether institutional advantage can survive weakness in the wider system. Its message is that authority over the rules offers little reassurance when the foundations themselves are threatened.

2026

Jaws of Death

Jaws of Death is a warning about the human cost of military escalation. The release text considers the dangers of an invasion of Iran and the limits of technological superiority. In the series narrative, financial and geopolitical ambition confront the terrain, resistance, and sacrifice that slogans can leave out.

2026

Kamikaze Bonds

Kamikaze Bonds turns Japan’s bond market into a warning about the risks of dependence on inexpensive borrowing. The release text connects changing financing conditions with leveraged positions around the world. Its meaning is interconnected vulnerability: pressure in one funding market can reach far beyond the country where it began.

2026

No More Brother Wars

No More Brother Wars challenges the division of ordinary people into enemies. The release text calls for an end to conflicts that consume lives while serving political and financial interests. Its message within the collection is solidarity: shared human costs deserve more attention than the divisions used to justify continued sacrifice.

2026

Oil Wars

Oil Wars revisits the energy-and-currency relationship introduced by Blood for Oil. The release text examines oil as a source of strategic influence and as a cause of conflict. The design connects control of essential resources with the monetary arrangements around them, extending one of the collection’s earliest arguments into a later chapter.

2026

Stack or Starve V2

Stack or Starve V2 continues the original preparedness theme as a separately identified design. The release text emphasizes dependence on financial infrastructure and the desire to retain practical choices during disruption. Its place in the collection is a renewed statement of self-reliance, rather than a new numbered entry in the early sequence.

2026

Stack or Starve V3

Stack or Starve V3 carries the preparedness theme into the needs of a household. The release text focuses on exchange, food, and dignity during severe disruption. As a collectible, it records the series’ recurring question in a third version: what form of wealth would remain useful when familiar systems stop working?

2026

The One

The One challenges the hierarchy of monetary authority. Its release text places physical silver above the financial promises the series criticizes. The design’s meaning is a claim about what deserves trust: a tangible material becomes the symbolic counterpoint to systems whose value depends on institutions and continuing confidence.

2026

The Weight of Wealth

The Weight of Wealth makes the worker the focus of the monetary argument. The release text describes inflation as a burden carried by those whose labor creates value. Its meaning is the distance between nominal prosperity and lived experience: more money in circulation does not necessarily make a working life feel more secure.

2026

Triple Default

Triple Default imagines a simultaneous failure of confidence across major silver trading centers. Its release text is a crisis scenario about the gap between paper claims and physical delivery. The release should be understood as a warning expressed through art, rather than a record establishing that the imagined defaults occurred.

2026

You Can't Print Silver

You Can’t Print Silver states one of the collection’s clearest contrasts: currency can be issued, while silver must be physically obtained. The release text uses that difference to challenge confidence in expandable financial promises. Its message is about material limits and the distinction between a claim on wealth and the substance itself.