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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 8105726, member: 115909"]Yup. That's exactly why they were called silver certificates.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could walk into a bank and hand them a $5 silver certificate and they would hand you back 5x silver dollars (or some combination of silver coinage equal to $5).</p><p><br /></p><p>Or if you handed them a $20 gold certificate they would hand you back a gold $20 Double Eagle or maybe 2x $10 Gold Eagles (or some combination of gold coinage equal to $20).</p><p><br /></p><p>Although in a numismatic sense I'm not sure if yours qualifies as a "gold certificate". There might be something I am missing. I just think it's interesting that your note mentions being redeemable in gold and not silver because the front of the $5 silver certificate is very similar to the front of that note.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409889[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 8105726, member: 115909"]Yup. That's exactly why they were called silver certificates. You could walk into a bank and hand them a $5 silver certificate and they would hand you back 5x silver dollars (or some combination of silver coinage equal to $5). Or if you handed them a $20 gold certificate they would hand you back a gold $20 Double Eagle or maybe 2x $10 Gold Eagles (or some combination of gold coinage equal to $20). Although in a numismatic sense I'm not sure if yours qualifies as a "gold certificate". There might be something I am missing. I just think it's interesting that your note mentions being redeemable in gold and not silver because the front of the $5 silver certificate is very similar to the front of that note. [ATTACH=full]1409889[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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