Got any free samples? How about factory seconds?
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The fonts don't look 19th Century and the artwork is too extravagant for a utilitarian object like a crate. Plus, wouldn't they have used barrels...
Gresham's Law. That's the reason.
I've bought from APMEX many times and always felt I got a decent deal.
Thanks. I love it, even more so because I paid less than $500 for it, back in the day. I hope the webmaster will eliminate my double post, done...
We pause here to look at a nice example of the topic being discussed.
The Aztecs used cacao beans for money, and gold for shiny decoration. At least the cacao beans had an actual use beyond just being pretty.
The old gold system as it actually operated caused panics (the old-timey word for depressions) in 1869, 1873 and 1907. The latter was accompanied...
It's good to meet somebody who understands. I have a past as a militant goldbug; I was libertarian long before it was cool, and can tell you all...
Well, OK. I'm an old-time coin collector who left for thirty years or so and now is back. I'm still trying to adjust to the "acetone rules,...
I think the problem is that you don't understand that money is supposed to be a medium of exchange. As such, it's neither necessary nor desirable...
If you want to take a chance, a soak in olive oil might get the two tones closer to one that still looks natural.
Whatever amount, 100,000 cubic yards of 100,000 cubic feet, the idea that you can base the economy on a little block of pretty but basically...
The idea that the US economy could be balanced, like a gigantic inverted pyramid, on a little cube of gold less than fifty-foot square is absurd.
An American $20 with such a mismatch might be worth upwards of $1000. Canadian, I don't know about.
Money is a medium of exchange. It's not something meant to be valued for itself, it's meant to be valued for what can be obtained in exchange for...
Well, OK. I haven't heard the 1901 earthquake causes the Panic of 1907 theory. But I have heard the Tariff of Abominations (1832) causes civil war...
Well, OK. Do you know the difference between commodity and fiduciary money? Do you know why the Panics of 1869 (and by extension of 1873) and 1907...
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