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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1010126, member: 26302&quot;]Heck, look at the first coins ever minted and you will see government stealing. The first coins were supposedly of naturally occurring electrum, but when analyzed have less gold and more silver than natural electrum does in that area. Governments cheat their people, the bigger the government the more they think they can cheat. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The effect Doug alludes to is so well known, of new governments issuing good coins then immediately start debasing them, that it is used to determine chronology of coinage throughout history. If ever in doubt, the lower quality coin came after the better one. I put together a display of Chinese coins once showing this pattern over and over again for a show. I thought it was cool, and maybe the 4 people who looked at it thought so too![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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