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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8194032, member: 73489&quot;]Yup, by total gold weight or value you are probably correct, Conder. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was just going by numbers.&nbsp; Obviously, 1 bar could do the work of 100 Double Eagles or something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, Roger says that the reason they kept making so many DEs each year was not for use in trade (though the bulk were used in that manner) but because by LAW they needed DEs to back Gold Certificates.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>For whatever reason, they didn&#039;t want bars or bullion to back the GC&#039;s -- just DE coins (or other gold coins).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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