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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8272995, member: 115909&quot;]It’s interesting you mention that!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was reading the biography of the famous female American journalist Nellie Bly and when she did her trip around the world she took with her £200 in British currency along with some American $20 Double Eagles because she was curious to see how American coinage was accepted in different places in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently she said that she only rarely saw American gold coinage and that when she did it was usually used as a form of jewelry rather than currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>She also said American Double Eagles were only accepted at a massive 60% discount which absolutely blows my mind when we know the gold in them was just as good as any other nation’s gold coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily for Nellie she had British coinage &amp; banknotes which were accepted at face value almost everywhere or at worst a tiny discount on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: At the time the British pound was worth $4-5 unlike today where it’s only worth like $1.20 or something like that so Nellie had with her the equivalent of about $900 in gold standard dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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