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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 688999, member: 18157&quot;]You are both soooo right!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. <b>mrbrklyn:</b> Large denomination coins would be nice.</p><p>2. <b>CamaroDMD:</b> No one wants to carry around big coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, we need small sized, large denomination coins. We can&#039;t get enough silver into them to equal their denomination...and we wouldn&#039;t want to since we have a floating (fiat) currency. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If we made a $50 silver coin the size of a Kennedy half dollar, what would stop a Chinese conterfeiter from making a bundle? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think the answer may be imbedded RFID tags. Miniturized, passive RFID tags imbedded in coins could be passively validated and foil counterfeiters.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#Miniaturization" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#Miniaturization" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#Miniaturization</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are RFID tags that attach to ants to study their movements. The technology is getting smaller and cheaper everyday. I don&#039;t know if anyone as thought of it in connection with coins before...but it may work. :hatch:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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