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I have already done all of the legals
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Not quite the same as saying that you've consulted a lawyer, but I'll assume that's what you meant. If so, that lawyer was a fool. Your website says that the Coinage Act of 1792 is still in full force. Not a bit of it.
Every section of the 1792 Act was amended and replaced, so that by 1872, when the Revised Statutes were compiled, the only remaining fragment of the original Act was section 20, the one about decimal coinage. That one surviving section was completely replaced in 1982 by a similar section, which deliberately dropped the phrase "money of account" because it had no legal significance, and put the words "United States money" in its place (and also removed the last half-sentence about all the accounting having to use that decimal system - evidently no longer considered necessary).
Your lawyer hasn't explained the concept of "legal tender" to you. Ithica scrip isn't legal tender. I cannot insist anyone accept it for payment, and if I take Ithica scrip to California, or anywhere far from Ithica, the only way I can make use of it is if it's on soft absorbent paper.