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<p>[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 239670, member: 3379"]if i minted my own coins out of pure gold with my face on it, and tried to spend them at mcdonald's, i'm sure they wouldn't hesitate from calling the cops. same goes for if i printed my own paper money with my face on it and tried to spend it at mcdonald's. it doesn't matter what something is made of, it's the principle. if you try to spend something as "circulating money" when it's not legal tender, you're breaking the law. </p><p><br /></p><p>the liberty dollar people went to great lengths to make sure "legal tender" appears nowhere on their products, and will tell you their products are in fact not legal tender. but according to their website, they want you to spend it as if it were.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/howtospend.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/howtospend.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/howtospend.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 239670, member: 3379"]if i minted my own coins out of pure gold with my face on it, and tried to spend them at mcdonald's, i'm sure they wouldn't hesitate from calling the cops. same goes for if i printed my own paper money with my face on it and tried to spend it at mcdonald's. it doesn't matter what something is made of, it's the principle. if you try to spend something as "circulating money" when it's not legal tender, you're breaking the law. the liberty dollar people went to great lengths to make sure "legal tender" appears nowhere on their products, and will tell you their products are in fact not legal tender. but according to their website, they want you to spend it as if it were. [URL="http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/howtospend.htm"]http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/howtospend.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
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