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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1700922, member: 11668&quot;]That didn&#039;t affect their legal tender status; it just called them all in.&nbsp; Remember that &quot;legal tender&quot; is an entirely separate concept from &quot;legal to own&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>More to the point, gold certificates weren&#039;t legal tender at all before 1919.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t need to be--they were redeemable in gold!&nbsp; (But that&#039;s why the Series 1922 GCs have a &quot;This certificate is a legal tender...&quot; clause that wasn&#039;t on any of the earlier issues.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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