Commodity based money backed by fiat currency - sounds sorta like modified fractional banking to me.
If the US is hit by hyper-inflation as feared by some the coins are fairly safe. The metals used in producing our coinage will increase in value...
Daggarjon - "dunno who your talking about... but its not me. Regardless of if something affects me personaly.. if its right, fine... if its not,...
I would like to read the proposed legislation - what is the bill #.
True some increased value arises from collector's fascination of the error which in turn the increased value captures tha fascination of...
Didn't ring the transaction up? Hum sounds like a sales and income tax dodge to me. I bet inventory shrinkage is well above average in that store.
I remember an afternoon many years ago under the guise of deer hunting my father and I having a discussion of many pointless topics while in the...
Coleguy - I suspect a significant factor concerning profitability of the mines you are speaking of can be traced to environmental compliance....
I posted this fact recently in another thread. The total amount of gold mined throughout history is estimated to be about 160,000 tonnes. To...
I am some what confused. When Gold reached it's high water mark in March of 2008 @ over $1,000.00 an ounce The exchange rate was $2.01990...
Pictures really are not good enough to draw a conclusion. 1931-S Buffalo had a fairly low mintage - somewhere around 1.2 million. With a mintage...
Just a gold standard inquiry. The total amount of gold ever mined is estimated at about 160,000 tonnes which based on the current price would...
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