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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Daniel M. Ryan, post: 1244462, member: 32253&quot;]You should take a look at old U.K. coins. There, you&#039;ll see evidence of three standards: gold, silver, copper. Gold - sovereign (pound); silver-shilling; copper - pence. </p><p><br /></p><p>If silver is the poor man&#039;s gold, then copper is the broke man&#039;s silver. In the slum areas of Victorian England, silver coins were pretty scarce. There were lots of &quot;farthings&quot; floating around: a farthing was a quarter-pence. I think the lowest denomination coin back then was a quarter-farthing (1/16 p, or a little more than 0.3 cents.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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