iPhone X = Phoenix

The Economist = 50% owned by the English branch of the Rothschild family through its holding company Exor.
Get Ready For A World Currency = Cryptos (thought up by DARPA, created by the NSA)
The Phoenix = Biometric access/denial to the new digital system (starting with the iPhoneX facial recognition aka The Phoenix (iPhoneX is an allegory of Phoenix))
Gold Coin on neck = Bitcoin (the gold standard of cryptos)
2018 on coin = The year it is to be rolled out to the masses (magazine originally printed 30 years prior in 1988)
Burning fiat = The year debt based fiat money begins to perish (2018 as planned)

GET READY FOR THE PHOENIX (1988)
"THIRTY years from now [2018], Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let’s say, the phoenix. The phoenix will be favoured by companies and shoppers because it will be more convenient than today’s national currencies, which by then will seem a quaint cause of much disruption to economic life in the last twentieth century."
Source: The Economist; 01/9/88, Vol. 306, page 9-10
https://www.economist.com/

HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH (1996)
National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology - Cryptology Division
Source: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; 18/06/1996, NSA Cryptology Division, page 1
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm