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<p>[QUOTE="mr.roddy, post: 26061224, member: 137014"]Oh yeah, the Tenpo 2 Shu. One of the really early ones, actually the only golden 2 Shu type. Have one, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>In most "countries" across the world, the same is happening again and again over the years. Coin face value is going up, weight and content of precious metal is going down. Clear signals that the country and its politics are coming to an end. Same happened 2000 years ago with Greek, Celtic and Roman coins. You can drastically see this with Roman coins: the mint even plated the coins with gold, so the normal people couldn't see that the rulers are running out of money. The mint was cheating the people telling them they own gold.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1658821[/ATTACH] </p><p>Later, precious metal was no more used for coins as it became too expensive, the coins of that time look really cheap.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1658820[/ATTACH]</p><p> In 476 AD, the empire collapsed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mr.roddy, post: 26061224, member: 137014"]Oh yeah, the Tenpo 2 Shu. One of the really early ones, actually the only golden 2 Shu type. Have one, too. In most "countries" across the world, the same is happening again and again over the years. Coin face value is going up, weight and content of precious metal is going down. Clear signals that the country and its politics are coming to an end. Same happened 2000 years ago with Greek, Celtic and Roman coins. You can drastically see this with Roman coins: the mint even plated the coins with gold, so the normal people couldn't see that the rulers are running out of money. The mint was cheating the people telling them they own gold. [ATTACH=full]1658821[/ATTACH] Later, precious metal was no more used for coins as it became too expensive, the coins of that time look really cheap. [ATTACH=full]1658820[/ATTACH] In 476 AD, the empire collapsed.[/QUOTE]
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