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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3643220, member: 39"]Don't think so; legal tender is what a government declares to be money that cannot be refused by a creditor if somebody needs to pay a debt. And of course there are lots of "legal tender" pieces in the world that are not actually used, just collected. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now "accepted as means of payment", that I can imagine. In that sense, many things work - telephone tokens, "foreign" money, gold bars ... In any case, the designs of the three pieces are quite attractive. And 1000 years, that is definitely something too. In Europe, only the regional parliaments of the Isle of Man and the Faroe Islands are roughly about as old, I think ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3643220, member: 39"]Don't think so; legal tender is what a government declares to be money that cannot be refused by a creditor if somebody needs to pay a debt. And of course there are lots of "legal tender" pieces in the world that are not actually used, just collected. ;) Now "accepted as means of payment", that I can imagine. In that sense, many things work - telephone tokens, "foreign" money, gold bars ... In any case, the designs of the three pieces are quite attractive. And 1000 years, that is definitely something too. In Europe, only the regional parliaments of the Isle of Man and the Faroe Islands are roughly about as old, I think ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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