nope.
people aren't going to buy a dollar for more than a dollar.
unless of course it's a.............
SUPER DOLLAR!
Seizure resistant and able to be copied, stored in your head, and transported safely across boarders and through ghettos with a single passphrase.
Or you could carry wads of cash through customs or lower Chi-Town like Merkostar
Remember Traveler's Checks?
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They were essentially dollars that cost more than a dollar.
A traveler's cheque[a] is a preprinted, fixed-amount cheque designed to allow the person signing it to make an unconditional payment to someone else as a result of having paid the issuer for that privilege.
They were generally used by people on vacation instead of cash, as many businesses used to accept traveler's cheques as currency. Merchants and other parties would accept them as if they were currency because, as long as the original signature (which the buyer is supposed to place on the check in ink as soon as they receive the cheque) and the signature made at the time the check is used is the same, the traveler's check issuer will unconditionally guarantee payment of the face amount even if the check is fraudulently issued, was stolen or lost. In short, a traveler's check can never 'bounce' unless the issuer goes bankrupt and out of business. If a traveler's cheque were lost or stolen, it could be replaced by the issuing financial institution.
-- Wikipedia
You got them as a safer way to carry cash that could be spent by affixing your signature which served as a visual "private key" matching your previous signature "public key". Once you bought some, they were good forever, so you tended to just hang onto them from trip to trip.
Added value justified added cost.
BitUSD is a modern digital Traveler's Check.
Q.E.D.