Multiple communities around the

world issuing their own currency,

working with banks and other institutions,

and it's typically at a fixed exchange

rate to the country's currency.

Well, now at DeKalb County,

community is working to do the same 11 lives.

Don White has more now on how it will work.

The Continental Congress

authorized US currency in 1775.

Fast forward more than 300

years later and a new form of

local currency will come into

color here in Stonecrest. So

many people may be shocked to know that

it's not illegal to make your own money,

so to speak, as long as you're

not counterfeiting US currency

right slab in a cubby and chromo with

stonecrest sustainable enterprises

is working with the Schumacher

Center for a new economics.

For stonecrest to have its own currency,

I thought it would be great

to call it the granite because Stonecrest

and many of the other towns in this

area Stone Mountain like throwing

your are all be holding onto the

quarry industry that used to be on the

dominant economic driver in this area.

Stonecrest currency will be modeled

after Berkshires local currency in

the Berkshire region of Massachusetts.

This is what Berkshires look like in the

currency here will look similar as colorful

notes in four to five denominations.

That currency has proven itself an

effective tool to connect citizens

there with their businesses and to

circulate wealth within that community

and to stimulate economic development.

Several small business owners in

Stonecrest already say they

want to cash in on the idea.

I thought it was a really

good idea. I mean, when you think

about having your own currency and the

circulation of it and keeping tabs

on what's coming and what's going on,

I just I was really excited, especially

as a farmer.

I was first excited to hear about it.

It's exciting news for at least

our own area to have our currency,

which can circulate our own dollars.

And we could share and grow amongst

each other in chroma plans to create

an electronic version of the currency

for people to pay businesses

like these and stonecrest.

The goal is to launch the

local currency in six months.