Your exclamatory mention of the group that "also tried to mint their (sic) own currency!" reminded me of a local effort: http://www.eugeneskinners.com/local-currency.html  Of course, being from Eugene, that effort couldn't possibly be "fringy" because that description is reserved for those dumb gun-loving hicks from Montana, elsewhere in the inland northwest, and much of the south. Anyway, Ryan Zinke is completely qualified to serve as interior secretary.