WHOSE IMAGE AND SUPERSCRIPTION? Toward a Semantic Economics of the Mint

"WHOSE IMAGE AND SUPERSCRIPTION? Toward a Semantic Economics of the Mint" is a 13,483-word theoretical paper by Rex Fraction, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-03-29. This paper argues for the founding of a subdiscipline: the semantic economics of the mint. It examines the physical design surface of currency — the face, the signature, the seal, the inscription — not as decoration or tradition but as a compression layer that encodes sovereignty, extracts political rent, and trains economic cognition. The work is classified under the GOVERNANCE semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.