So finaly,
if I understand correctly, "coin that shall not be named" is supposed to be used as tool for fine-tuning financial incentive for people who would run nodes, but don't have enough NXT's to actually forge anything in reasonable amount of time.
It's value is 0 per se; only thing that is generating revenues are tx fees and they are distributed in accordance with amount of coins; but if there would be a fund that would be funded by someone (large stakeholders for example, in the begining) that would allow for, let's say Infrastructure committee, to intervene in AE and offer some NXT's for this auxilary coin, and with this to bring it's value above 0, and this would automaticaly attract more people/nodes.
Because "coin that shall not be named" is a plain asset it's value is totaly irrelevant for NXT itself.
AE is a train carrying some cargo. Running a train costs money (NXTs), no matter what the cargo is - gold bars or horse sh*t...
Either way, type of cargo is irrelevant for the costs (and value of NXT) of usage of the train itself... only thing that could change cost of the ride is ability to deliver cargo to destination more efficiently than some other transportation mode...
