Platinum in human culture

• Jack Balkin
  Jack Balkin
  Jack M. Balkin is an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School...
  
  , the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law
  United States Constitution
  The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.The first three...
  
   and the First Amendment
  First Amendment to the United States Constitution
  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...
  
   at Yale Law School
  Yale Law School
  Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
  
  , suggests that the U.S. Treasury has the power to issue platinum coins in any denomination, so it could solve the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis by issuing two platinum coins for one trillion
  Trillion
  -Numbers:Either of the two numbers :* 1,000,000,000,000 for all short scale countries...
  
   dollars each, depositing them into its account in the Federal Reserve, and writing checks on the proceeds.

• A platinum award
  Award
  An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
  
   is not as prestigious as a diamond
  Diamond
  In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...
  
  award, but it is more prestigious than a gold
  Gold (color)
  Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of orange-yellow color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold....
  
  , silver
  Silver (color)
  Silver is the metallic shade resembling gray, closest to that of polished silver.The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the...
  
  , or bronze
  Bronze (color)
  At right is displayed the color bronze.Bronze is a medium brown color which resembles the actual alloy bronze.The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753...
  
  award.

• A platinum credit card
  Credit card
  A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services...
  
   has a higher credit limit and a lower interest rate than a regular credit card; it is only available to someone with a good credit rating
  Credit rating
  A credit rating evaluates the credit worthiness of an issuer of specific types of debt, specifically, debt issued by a business enterprise such as a corporation or a government. It is an evaluation made by a credit rating agency of the debt issuers likelihood of default. Credit ratings are...
  
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• In Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
  
  's Galactic Empire as depicted in his Foundation series, the monetary unit of the Galactic Empire, the galactic credit, is solidly backed because it is convertible to pure platinum—the Galactic Empire is on the platinum standard.

• A married couple's
  Marriage
  Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
  
   70th wedding anniversary is called their Platinum Anniversary and guests at such a couple's wedding anniversary party are expected to bring gifts made of platinum. The 70th anniversary of any important event can be referred to as a Platinum Jubilee, although this term is seldom used.

• In the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  , a platinum album is an album that has sold at least 1,000,000 copies.