Money | Treasury Department Treasury: Forget About That $1T Platinum Coin Treasury won't make it and Fed won't accept it By Rob Quinn Posted Jan 14, 2013 12:17 AM CST Copied A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) The $1 trillion platinum coin being touted as a bizarre solution to the debt ceiling debate will only ever exist as an illustration of just how dysfunctional Washington has become. A Treasury official tells the Washington Post that the department has no intention of minting such a coin to get around the debt ceiling and even if it did, the Federal Reserve would refuse to accept it. "Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit," the official says. For the trillion-dollar coin plan to have worked, the Fed would have to have accepted the coin for deposit. Read These Next Mid Cops: Arizona 5th graders drew up plot to 'end' a classmate. The DOJ just fired 3 prosecutors tied to Capitol riot criminal cases. Trumps ends trade talks with Canada. Report an error