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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1393811, member: 22143&quot;]Indeed.&nbsp; This is why I&#039;ve mostly concluded that debating a topic with you is a waste of my time.&nbsp; You persist with these pointless questions and personal anecdotes as proof.&nbsp;&nbsp; However in hopes that I am wrong, I will try and answer your questions.&nbsp;&nbsp; On item 1, the US Mint was created in 1792 where the $ was defined in grains of silver and they of course minted silver coinage.&nbsp; They were also authorized to mint gold $s out of bullion brought in by people who wanted it coined.&nbsp; They provided this service free of charge.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve said many times above, it was a government assay.&nbsp; Nothing more, nothing less.&nbsp;&nbsp; This has been mentioned many times directly to you on this forum so I can conclude there is only one reason you ask such a question.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On your second point, you are offering nothing but an opinion here.&nbsp; When presented with evidence to the contrary, you first characterized it as nothing more than the efforts of a small territorial mint (all mints were territorial in those days, luv) then when shown this was wrong, you simply state that it&#039;s rewriting the past. This along with several attempts to get me to state something that is historically incorrect really does us a disservice.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Believe what you wish, but it does prove what you stated above, that is that government&#039;s imbue coins with some sort of special, but which can&#039;t be put into words, special properties,&nbsp; is simply wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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