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[Mechanoid]

Interesting thought; what if dwarves that owned shops (like clothing shops and crafts shops) were able to take a few of their items to the trader at the trading post, and then sell them there to the trader? Of course, if the economy has started, all the traders out there should bring coins to use to buy the goods.

This way people may actually want to start the economy, because it allows them to increase the wealth of their dwarves with minimal effort; you dont need to mine the gold, and then spend fuel /time making the coins. All you need are enough workshops churning out enough goods to keep the shops filled, and then when the various traders come, all those goods get taken by the shop keepers to the trading post, and turned into copper /silver /gold /electrum /platinum coins. So you could also technically satisfy coin mandates with this process, as well.

Of course, when a realistic economy is made, this would become decreasingly effective in certain areas for certain crafts (common stone; cloth) as you flood the markets of the people you're trading amongst with large amounts mass-produced items.
 

[Chthon]

You have now traversed into the realm of exchange rates and the nightmare there-in.  While it'd be a nice touch, trader coin is almost certainly not worth the same amount as your fortress coin.  Seeing as weight of the coin is abstracted out, there would have to be some code determining how much one coin is worth compared to another.

Eventually this could be corrected such that you can determine how many coins you make in the initial stack this year thus determining the price per coin.  More coins means that individual coins are worth less, while less coins means they are worth more (although less portable)

[Captain Mayday]

perhaps the sale of metal bars, then?
Through history, a weight of valuable metal has been far preferred to the questionable value of coinage.