Compress that piece of coal into a diamond and it will yield dollars. It most certainly would fall. Governments printed paper money as a symbol of the precious metals that gave the paper value. Now governments just print money - more and more of it. Money is paper.
Paper comes from trees.
There are a lot of trees. The universe is infinite and abundant. Humanity has chosen scarcity as its commodity of value - hence creating poverty and wealth, have and have nots, rich and poor. The most important fundamental paradigm shift is from scarcity to abundance. Only an abundant world can work for everyone.