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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 2322971, member: 57463&quot;]Sweden is almost cashless now.&nbsp; (New York Times here: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/international/in-sweden-a-cash-free-future-nears.html?_r=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/international/in-sweden-a-cash-free-future-nears.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/international/in-sweden-a-cash-free-future-nears.html?_r=0</a>)&nbsp; One article that I read noted that even the 70s-Retro Abba Museum is cashless.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you stop and think about it, metals - first bronze slabs, then silver jewelry, then coins - replaced cows and wheat as money starting about 5000 to 2500 years ago, and yet, you can still trade cows for wheat in commodities exchanges. The world&#039;s governments officially went off precious metals by 1965, yet they still strike precious metals, especially gold and silver bullion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I believe that in another generation &quot;no one&quot; will use tangible money, and yet, it will still be around.</p><p><br /></p><p>Governments will issue commemoratives.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also look to private issues.&nbsp; Silver art bars (rounds, etc.) will remain popular, especially with Americans. Bar tokens and other good-fors will continue, as will community currencies in paper such as Bay Bucks and Time Dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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