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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ratio411, post: 1146658, member: 26729&quot;]About the face value...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>IIRC, the way it works is that the value is NOT based on the silver itself, but on the agreed value among users.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When they were starting off, I remember you bought in for the amount of services you wanted, and if it was 100 bux, then you got that denomination... You paid in the 100, plus a service fee for the coin, then anyone who barters with the coins would honor that coin for the 100 bux of services.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Make sense?</p><p>It&#039;s been a very long time ago I looked at how they worked, but to the best of my recollection, the coins marked value is agreed upon and paid in, regardless of weight.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Kinda like buying McDonalds gift certificates or (better yet) a store gift card/prepaid Visa, only printed on silver as opposed to paper or plastic.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Edit:</b></p><p>I could be mixing this up with another &quot;end of the world&quot; currency system...</p><p>There were a couple being floated around 98-99, before the 2000 glitch was going to kill us all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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