During the fur-trade era, the Hudson's Bay Company issued trade tokens with values measured in beaver pelts, called 'Made Beavers'. As Dee and the Bayesian Nakama used a takeover of the HBC as part of the financing for the colonizing of the asteroid (442) Eichsfeldia, when they decided to promote the local economy by issuing a local currency, they decided to re-use that name.

And so, the other members of the Nakama gave Dee a large loan - and in return, she gave them IOUs, denominated, in the Nakama's tradition, of being equivalent in value to one episode of coitus with her. Like cheques that can be countersigned and passed on, these IOUs could also be traded - and thus form the basis for a full-fledged currency. (A similar process is what was used to found the Bank of England, and its currency, in 1694.) While most transactions are digital, there remains enough use for physical currency that they issued actual coins and banknotes.

As a B with a stroke was already in use for both Thailand's Baht and New Attica's Buck, the chosen symbol for the Beaver was, officially, a V with a stroke. Almost as officially, due to the choice of the currency's value, that symbol is actually a picture of Dee's cleft of Venus; and, by being incorporated into the latest equivalent of Unicode, Dee has managed to spread pictures of her genitals to just about every computer in the Solar system.

The image shows, from top to bottom:

* The common back of the banknotes, with an image of the asteroid itself and a representation of its orbit.

* The one-Beaver note, with Dee posed like an odalisque

* The five-Beaver note, based on Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People".

Drawn by Seth Triggs ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs )