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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2757184, member: 19463&quot;]This is a question answered well in this paper.&nbsp; We come down hard on Nero for starting the debasement of the denarii but the chart shows he is still above 90% silver of the US.&nbsp; The interesting ones are where a new ruler comes in and issues better silver than his predecessor.&nbsp; The chart shows more than one of these. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today, those of us who spent real silver coins are becoming a minority.&nbsp; There are very few people left who ever spent face value gold.&nbsp; My 103 year old mother-in-law could have since she was in college when gold was called in but just how many gold coins do you think a poor college girl had back then.&nbsp;&nbsp; My mother became a Registered Nurse in 1932 and was paid $1 a day for her first job.&nbsp; A dollar was a lot of money then. A gold coin was a lot more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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