http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_currency_area A North American currency union just plain wouldn't make sense. If there were one, its...
The reference is to what foreign central banks could do. Until 1971 they could (and did) get gold at a fixed rate in exchange for dollars.
Is that why rainwater is so fresh, because clouds have silver linings? Alexis de Tocqueville remarked that a particular strength of Americans was...
Do I remember right from your earlier postings that doing dipping correctly is something that requires unusual expertise and that most people fail at?
When inflation is high but short of a complete collapse, money rushes around inflating one fad after another. Sudden unsustainable price rises for...
Iridium in really small amounts can be a desirable jewelry additive: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/gold-alloys.htm Though not at the...
You could cash your silver in at a precious metals dealer in a neighboring country, in exchange for that country's paper money. Ex-Yugoslavia...
Please say more, for the benefit of noobs like me. Are the photos in the books bad photos, or is it just impossible to illustrate what the...
I believe the key word there was "fraudulently", in other words it's illegal if you're trying to trick somebody, for example by spending an...
I'm here to ask dumb questions, so, fulfilling my purpose in life: If a coin rattles around inside a plastic holder, is it at risk for getting...
They thought it was stolen property and bought it? There's a word for that, and it's not "sharp dealing".
I wish I could remember the name of the dealer in my area whose web site says that they won't buy something they've appraised, because they don't...
I've seen plenty of people afraid of it, but none have been able to answer the simple logical question of what the government's motive would be....
Hope you all don't mind a dumb question: asking them is what I'm here to do. What's the motivation for taking a grinder to a coin? What valuable...
If we're brainstorming alternatives to the current system, how about selling them through post office branches? I believe there's precedent from...
Thread about diffused lighting for photographic toned coins
Speaking of dangerous chemistry, there's a substance used to clean semiconductor vapor deposition chambers which you don't want to be anywhere...
There was a science fiction story about that, a tongue-in-cheek one. The aliens used plutonium coins as money to encourage people to keep money in...
Frozen funds. Which, at room temperature, turn into liquid assets.
There have been previous threads about coins and rounds made from niobium, tantalum, titanium and so on: http://www.cointalk.com/t20534/...
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