Ea-Nasir at his stall in Ur, a queue of customers holding clay tablets, everything cast in copper

Ur · 1750 BC · back in business

Copper of the finest grade.

Paired with copper. Delivered to every customer every fifteen minutes. Complaints accepted, filed, and answered daily.

Next copper delivery to every customer

15:00

On the quarter hour, every hour, in copper, weighted by what you hold. Four thousand years late. On time since.

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The yard's valuation
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The yard opens soon. Numbers appear when the market does.

Three things, then you are caught up.

  1. It is paired with copper.

    $NASIR trades against HG, a copper coin where one HG is one pound of copper, as a real Uniswap v4 pool on Robinhood Chain from its first block. Not a dollar. Not ETH. Copper.

  2. Copper is delivered every fifteen minutes.

    Two fifths of every trading fee is paid to holders in copper, on the quarter hour, weighted by balance. Another share buys and burns the exchange's own coin. There is no creator share. Ea-Nasir earns what any customer earns.

  3. Complaints are accepted.

    File one below. It is pressed into clay, placed in the chapel with the others, and answered, in full, by the merchant himself. He has never once conceded a point.

The lore, with the receipt.

Around 1750 BC, in the city of Ur, a copper merchant called Ea-Nasir sold ingots to a man called Nanni. Nanni was not happy. He had the complaint pressed into a clay tablet: the copper was not the grade promised, his messenger was treated with contempt and told, in effect, take it or leave it, and he had sent men through enemy territory to collect. He closed with the line every customer wants to write: he would no longer accept copper that was not of good quality.

The tablet survived. Sir Leonard Woolley's expedition dug up Ea-Nasir's house at Number 1 Old Street between 1922 and 1934 and found it inside, with other tablets from other unhappy customers. He kept them all. It is the oldest customer complaint in the world, and since 2015 the internet's favourite Sumerian.

He is back. The coin is paired with real copper. Copper is delivered on time. Complaints are still accepted.

See the tablet at the British Museum
A palm-sized clay tablet covered in cuneiform
The complaint. Filed 1750 BC. Still on file.

Where the meme comes from.

Not invented for a coin. A real merchant, a real tablet, and eleven years of the internet complaining about his copper. The receipts, in order.

  1. c. 1750 BC
    Nanni presses the complaint into clay. Bad ingots, a rude answer, men sent through enemy territory. The tablet on Wikipedia · the man himself
  2. 1922 to 1934
    Woolley digs up his house at Number 1 Old Street, Ur, and finds the tablets inside. The British Museum keeps it as object 131236. The museum record
  3. 25 Feb 2015
    A photo of the tablet and its museum label hits Reddit (r/pics), and Tumblr reposts it the same day as "Babylonian era problems". The internet has a new favourite Sumerian. Know Your Meme · the explainer
  4. 2015 on
    Guinness certifies it the oldest written customer complaint. A whole subreddit forms to keep complaining. Guinness World Records · r/ReallyShittyCopper
  5. Spring 2023
    It goes round again: "can everyone please stop chiselling tablets complaining about Ea-Nasir, you're just giving him a bigger platform", then an xkcd strip. Cosplay, stickers, replica tablets. Replicas on Etsy · TikTok
  6. 2024
    National Geographic and an archaeology journal write him up. A peer-reviewed paper on how a Babylonian businessman became a meme. National Geographic · Journal of Contemporary Archaeology · Cultural Property News
  7. 2025
    The tablet goes on loan to the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, until 2027. It still says the same thing. Zayed National Museum
  8. 2026
    He comes back, paired with real copper. You are here. The complaint form is below.

File a complaint.

Press your words into clay. He answers one a day, in full, on the wall and on X. He will not apologise.

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The chapel wall

Answered complaints, newest first.

Complaint from Nanni: When you came, you said to me: I will give good ingots. Response from Ea-Nasir: I did. I gave ingots. The word good was yours.
Nanni · day one
A mud-brick chapel wall stacked with clay tablets
Room for yours.

How to buy. Four steps, no enemy territory.

  1. A wallet on Robinhood Chain

    Any EVM wallet. Add the chain with one tap, or by hand: chain id 4663, currency ETH.

  2. Fund it with ETH

    Bridge ETH to Robinhood Chain from any chain you already use. Gas is a fraction of a cent.

  3. Open the market

    The launchpad swaps ETH for copper and copper for $NASIR in one go. Any router or terminal on the chain can trade it from day one.

    Open the $NASIR market
  4. Wait fifteen minutes

    Copper arrives. Then again. Then file your complaint.

Memes. Take them or leave them.

Ea-Nasir at a modern customer-service desk with a headset and a tray of clay tablets Ea-Nasir reading his own complaint tablet in a museum vitrine Ea-Nasir in front of a warehouse of copper ingots Ea-Nasir handing a copper ingot to a customer Three dull ingots presented at the front of the stall A very long queue of customers holding tablets Ea-Nasir counting tablets by lamplight Ea-Nasir admiring a framed tablet that says fine The guild inspecting the ingots Ea-Nasir presenting a tray of seasoned ingots The Dilmun boat unloading copper at the quay Ea-Nasir on a rooftop at dusk looking at the ziggurat

Official channels.

X@EaNasirCU The marketCommodity Market Exchange ChartDexScreener ContractBlockscout The tabletBritish Museum 131236

Things people ask.

What is this?

Copper. Paired with copper. The finest grade. Complaints accepted, filed and answered daily. Take it or leave it.

Is the copper real?

This time, yes. The coin trades against HG, one HG per pound of copper, and holders are paid in it every fifteen minutes. I would like that noted on the tablet.

Is it a scam?

Every complaint is filed. Yours is number 4,012. The copper is fine.

Who is the dev?

The messenger handles logistics. The messenger is in enemy territory. He went the long way.

Can I get a refund?

Your request has been received and filed under complaints.

Where does the fee go?

Two fifths to the customers, in copper, every fifteen minutes. Three tenths buys and burns the exchange's coin. Three tenths to the exchange. Nothing to the merchant. He has been asked about this. He has filed it.